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PEN-Plus approach
May 3 , 2025
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- Twenty African countries have increased access to the services for severe non-communicable diseases (NCDs) over the last four years since adapting the PEN-Plus approach.
- In 2019 alone, more than 2.8 million NCD-related deaths were recorded in the WHO African Region, the equivalent of over 7,900 deaths per day.
- While the total number of deaths in the Region decreased from 8.7 million in 2000 to 7.8 million in 2019.
- NCD-related deaths rose sharply, with NCDs accounting for 37 per cent of all deaths in 2019, up from 24 per cent in 2000.
- PEN-Plus, an integrated health care delivery model, was originally developed in Rwanda to provide just this care to affected individuals living in extreme poverty.
- It has been developed to complement the WHO Package of the Essential Non-communicable Disease (PEN) interventions, which mainly focuses primarily on managing common NCDs at primary health care level.
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