PEN Plus Strategy

Africa has adopted the PEN Plus strategy to tackle severe non-communicable diseases (NCD) such as type 1 diabetes (T1D), rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and sickle cell disease.

  • Package of Essential NCD Interventions (PEN) was adopted by the WHO in 2010 to support the decentralization of services to the primary care level.
  • “PEN-Plus” refers to the approach to address severe NCDs through an integrated outpatient service at first-level ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content
Buy May 2023 Issue

Already a Member? Login here

Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Be an Annual Subscriber

Related Content

Science & Technology