2023 Joseph Siaw Agyepong Distinguished Lecture On Public Health

Prof. Peter Lamptey, a professor in Global Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) at London School of Hygiene& Tropical Medicine/President Emeritus FHI360, has noted that lack of finances to combat NCDs is posing a challenge to efforts to curb the risk of increase. Speaking on the topic Combatting Noncommunicable Diseases: Africa’s Greatest Health Challenges, he noted that the funds available globally to address NCDs as compared to HIV/AIDS, Malaria etc, is nothing to write home about. “There is virtually no response at all to combat NCDs as compared to HIV/AIDS and malaria and it is part of the reasons why NCDs continue to…