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NCD Alliance East Africa

🫀 Cardiovascular diseases claim nearly 20 million lives every year.

Most people know someone affected by heart disease, stroke, or hypertension.

The encouraging part is that many of the major risk factors are preventable and manageable when identified early.

#HeartHealth

🫀 Cardiovascular disease.
♋️ Cancer.
🫁 Chronic respiratory disease.
🩸 Diabetes.

Together, these four conditions account for four out of every five premature NCD deaths worldwide.

This is why integrated prevention and care matter.

#NCDs #UniversalHealthCoverage

🏭️ When we talk about NCDs, we often focus on individual choices.

But not every risk factor is a personal choice.

The air we breathe plays a major role in heart disease, stroke, chronic respiratory diseases, and lung cancer.

Cleaner air is not just an environmental issue.
It

🩸 Hypertension rarely announces itself.

No pain.
No warning.
No obvious symptoms.

Yet elevated blood pressure is the leading metabolic risk factor behind NCD deaths worldwide.

A simple blood pressure check could be one of the most important health decisions someone makes this

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