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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS Delegates at the ‘ 1st Asia Pacific Congress on Diabetes, Hypertension & Metabolic Syndrome in Pregnancy’ , which was jointly hosted in Colombo by the Ministry of Health Sri Lanka, the World Health Organization (Sri Lanka Country Office) and the World Diabetes Foundation , endorsed the Colombo Declaration demanding urgent action to address the link between maternal health and diabetes as a public health priority. The declaration resolves to address the suboptimal maternal health care and rising incidence of hyperglycaemia in pregnancy (HIP) in order to improve the health of women and future generations of South Asians. The declaration states that focusing on hyperglycaemia in pregnancy provides a unique opportunity to integrate services to improve mother and new born health and address prevention of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and stroke. Even though South Asia has remarkably redu...