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Hello, readers of our blog, we are excited to have you follow what's going on with our organization, REACH AND SUPPORT ALL. We are still continuing with our health campaigns in Simiyu Region - Tanzania, educating and screening for noncommunicable diseases in the region.

As you may have read from our previous posts, noncommunicable diseases are now among the leading causes of mortality among third world countries where Tanzania happens to be one of them. Other than noncommunicable diseases, the country has been putting much efforts to fight infectious diseases, and we thank our government and partners that there are good results to show, however, much more is needed to be done as with the increased rate on noncommunicable diseases, as a country we face a double burden of disease as opposed to most developed countries.

The fight again noncommunicable diseases cannot be left upon one person, sector, organization or country, we advocate and call for cross-sectoral partnership, multiorganizational partnership and multinational partnership in this fight. We call for volunteers all across the globe, interested in rural community health programs to work/partner with us in seeing our agender go through.

We are currently working in Simiyu Region as mentioned earlier screening and educating community members on hypertension, diabetes mellitus and obesity. We also do not ignore diseases of importance that we may come across in various villages as we continue with the campaigns.

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