Raising taxes on alcohol and tobacco is a viable financing model to combat lifestyle diseases, as the high cost of treatment continues to burden low-income individuals suffering from non-communicable ...

At dawn, 65-year-old Nelly Mutandwa swapped her pajamas for leggings, a T-shirt and sneakers. She grabbed a bottle of water before heading to an unconventional workout spot: a cemetery in Zimbabwe’s ...

AstraZeneca’s ( www.AstraZeneca.com) flagship health equity programme - Healthy Heart Africa (HHA), marks its 10th ...

February is Healthy Lifestyle Awareness Month, making it the perfect time to highlight the growing risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, hypertension, stroke and obesity.

KIGALI - Global experts have called for investing in non-communicable disease prevention to curb the growing burden.Rwanda NCD Alliance chairperson Prof. Joseph Mucumbitsi says governments must make ...

Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have sat on tenterhooks, ...

The Nepal government has initiated a month-long health campaign to tackle non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. The campaign will provide free health screenings and aims to ...

In a question and answer format, UC Riverside public policy professor Richard Carpiano and medical school professor Dr.

An overall increase in life expectancy was observed across all individuals living with HIV but disparities between gender groups persist.

In response to the increasing mortality associated with Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors, the National ...

When a person suffers from two or more long-term health conditions at the same time this is known as multimorbidity.

Some older people in Zimbabwe are taking up exercise wherever they can find the space as non-communicable diseases such as ...