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Sunday Standard
Sunday Standard
Despite scaling up action against NCDs over the past few years, Botswana’s progress toward addressing them has mainly been lacklustre. While there might be several reasons for this limited success, the absence of bold policy commitments is believed to be one of the main reasons for the partial progress in NCD prevention and management. NCDs are a diverse group of chronic diseases that are not communicable, meaning you can’t catch them from another person. They include cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and lung diseases are the leading drivers of morbidity, mortality and disability. Th…