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b'Chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes are now so common in poor countries that they threaten the Millennium Development Goals for achieving significant progress on infectious diseases, and on child and maternal mortality by 2015. According to a report by scientists from London, Oxford and San Francisco, published in the journal PLoS Medicine, non\\u2013communicable diseases \\u2014 common in rich countries \\u2014 are now also taking their toll in poor countries, and \\u2014 along with HIV \\u2014 undermining the goals. Co-author, Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, discusses the findings.'