Guidelines on clinical and programmatic management of major non-communicable diseases

Abstract

The national comprehensive guidelines for prevention, screening, diagnosis, treat ment and care for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is one among many of the efforts to lead to the implementation of interventions to reduce the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Ethiopia. The national NCDs framework was developed in 2010 for selected NCDs: diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, chronic kidney diseases and cancer, prioritized on the basis of the WHO 2011 and global morbidity report (Abegunde D. O, The Lancet 2007).Following this, the national plan of action for NCDs prevention and control was drafted in late 2013