CHRONIC NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN ETHIOPIA– A HIDDEN BURDEN

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Martin Prevett

Abstract

It is only relatively recently that chronic non- communicable disease in low-income countries has started to receive the attention that it deserves. The Millennium Development Goals, which have dominated the global health agenda for the last decade, did not include chronic disease, but in 2005 a World Health Organization report drew attention to the neglect of chronic disease (1) and in 2011 chronic non- communicable disease was the subject of a United Nations high-level meeting (2). The linked articles from Jimma University and collaborators published in this issue are timely and serve to highlight the problem of chronic non-communicable disease in Ethiopia (3,4).

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Martin Prevett, University Hospital Southampton

Neurologist, University Hospital Southampton, UK.