The government’s disease monitoring arm, IEDCR, will implement the Cambridge Programme to Assist Bangladesh in Lifestyle and Environmental or CAPABLE risk reduction programme supported by a £8 million grant from the Research Councils-UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund program. Bangladesh is currently facing the “double burden” of both infectious and lifestyle diseases. Of these, cardiovascular diseases cause the highest 17 percent deaths followed by chronic lung diseases at 11 percent and cancer 10 percent. The CAPABLE programme is aimed at addressing the challenges of non-communicable diseases by focusing on “intertwined risk factors related to social, environmental, and behavioural factors not previously been considered in an integrated framework”. >> To conduct innovative cross-disciplinary research to understand the interplay NCD risk factors, and to develop and evaluate practicable, feasible and acceptable interventions to combat them.

Source: bd News24 January 23, 2018 19:18 UTC