SAVING PRECIOUS LIVES

For the world’s poorest billion people—more than 90 percent of whom live in rural sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia—severe, chronic noncommunicable diseases such as type 1 diabetes, sickle cell disease, and childhood heart disease lead to more than a half a million avoidable deaths among children and young adults each year. PEN-Plus, an integrated care-delivery model designed to serve people living with those conditions in extreme poverty, has proved so successful that all 47 member states of the WHO African Region have voted to adopt it. Learn how this innovative approach is already saving and transforming lives.