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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most broadly supported, comprehensive, yet specific development goals ever set by the global community.

The article shows that treatment success rates were higher in patients who opted for community DOT than in patients who chose facility-based DOT (all cases).

Ghana faces an increasing burden of non-communicable disease. The article concludes that the low hypertension treatment and control rates may suggest that such programs are not necessarily impactful on the health of the population.

The overall aim of the leprosy post-exposure prophylaxis (LPEP) program was to evaluate the feasibility and efficiency of contact tracing and the provision of preventative treatment for leprosy under routine conditions in eight countries.

The Novartis Foundation and partners are working to transform health systems from being reactive, to proactive, predictive and preventative.