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PEN-PLUS Strategy
August 27 , 2022
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- The African health ministers had adopted the PEN-PLUS strategy against non-communicable diseases.
- In Africa, the NCDs are mostly treated in the major cities.
- This worsens health inequities, as it puts care out of reach for most rural, peri-urban and low-income patients.
- To overcome this Africa has adopted a new strategy called PEN-PLUS.
- The PEN-PLUS strategy is a Regional Strategy to address Severe NCDs at the First-Level Referral Health Facilities by increasing the access to the essential medicines, technologies, diagnostics and treatment.
- This will bridge the access gap in treatment, as NCDs account for most of the out-of-pocket spending of patients in Africa.
- The PEN-PLUS strategy has been successfully implemented and scaled up in Liberia, Malawi and Rwanda.
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