Non-Communicable Diseases account for 70 percent of deaths worldwide
Moreover, someone aged 30 to 70 years dies prematurely from NCDs every two seconds and poorer people are disproportionately affected by NCDs
Rwanda: Cervical cancer is still leading in Rwanda
By Nasra Bishumba The number of people who have contracted cancer since 2015 has more than doubled, rising from 2,115 cases to 5,040 in 2019, the Director of Cancer Diseases Unit at the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC), Marc Hagenimana, has said. Speaking to The New Times in a telephone interview, Hagenimana said that the numbers […]
Kenya: How Cancer Management is Changing
By Elizabeth Merab and Leon Lidigu As the world marked World cancer day on Thursday, Kenya continued facing a growing demand for treatments, with its very limited supply capacity for diagnosis and treatment posing serious healthcare policy challenges. New global data suggests that the burden of the disease has risen to 42,116 cases and 27,092 […]
