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Dear Distinguished Senators and Honourable Members,<\/p>\n
Nigeria faces a “double burden of disease” where diseases such as HIV, malaria, and Lassa fever cause major illness and death and the rates of non-communicable diseases<\/a> (NCDs) such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are rapidly increasing. This has created growing pressure on a health system already managing infectious threats. In 2019<\/a>, NCDs were estimated to account for about 29% of deaths in Nigeria. In practical terms, this means roughly…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Dear Distinguished Senators and Honourable Members, Nigeria faces a “double burden of disease” where diseases such as HIV, malaria, and Lassa fever cause major illness and death and the rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are rapidly increasing. This has created growing pressure on a health system already managing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":217381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,11010,7292,24953,6944,15225,32198,31371,5747,4326,257,4687,393,5983,17013,9179,254,8237],"class_list":["post-217380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amendment","tag-bill","tag-consolidation","tag-customs","tag-distinguished","tag-excise","tag-honourable","tag-letter","tag-members","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-open","tag-pass","tag-senators","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tariffs"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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