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Stronger Together: Network Celebrates Third Anniversary with Videos from PEN-Plus Heroes
Stronger Together: Network Celebrates Third Anniversary with Videos from PEN-Plus Heroes

Care providers and advocates from eight PEN-Plus countries—Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe—contributed a series of videos to celebrate the NCDI Poverty Network’s third anniversary.

Uganda Ministry of Health Celebrates PEN-Plus Launch
Uganda Ministry of Health Celebrates PEN-Plus Launch

The Uganda Ministry of Health, the local government of the Kumi District, and the Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Noncommunicable Diseases hosted a celebration of the launch of PEN-Plus in Uganda on 23 November.

Experts Focused on PEN-Plus in Southern Africa During International Conference on Public Health in Africa
Experts Focused on PEN-Plus in Southern Africa During International Conference on Public Health in Africa

The NCDI Poverty Network and the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) hosted a side event, “PEN-Plus Partnership: An NCDI Poverty Network Initiative in Partnership with WHO/AFRO,” on 29 November at the 3rd International Conference on Public Health in Africa, held in Lusaka, Zambia.

The Power of Patient Organizers in the Fight for Global Health Justice
The Power of Patient Organizers in the Fight for Global Health Justice

“People living with chronic conditions have historically not been considered important decision-makers from a policy perspective,” said Dr. Apoorva Gomber, coauthor of an opinion piece recently published in PLOS Global Public Health. “Our article highlights the absurdity of policymakers making decisions aimed at benefitting people living with a certain disease without consulting anyone who actually lives with that disease.”

CPHIA Side Event to Focus on PEN-Plus in Southern Africa
CPHIA Side Event to Focus on PEN-Plus in Southern Africa

The Southern Africa Regional Hub of the NCDI Poverty Network will host a side event during the third annual International Conference on Public Health in Africa. The side event—“PEN-Plus Partnership: An NCDI Poverty Network Initiative in partnership with WHO-Afro”—will take place on 29 November in Lusaka, Zambia, with an option for livestreaming.

Principal Diseases Targeted
Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 Diabetes

Unlike their counterparts in high-income countries, children with type 1 diabetes in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa often die within a year of diagnosis. This tragedy is as unnecessary as it is unjust.

Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle Cell Disease

Approximately a thousand children are born with sickle cell disease every day in sub-Saharan Africa alone. In resource-poor settings, more than half of them will die before they reach the age of five.

Childhood Heart Disease
Childhood Heart Disease

Without proper treatment, 20 percent of nine-year-olds who manage to survive acute rheumatic fever in low-income countries will die before their fifteenth birthday. More than 70 percent will not survive past 25.