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UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) joins GACD

GACD | 23 Oct 2020

GACD as an alliance of international public funding agencies supporting research activities intended to improve the prevention and treatment of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, mental ill-health and cancers. GACD focusses on the needs of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and key vulnerable populations, where 80% of deaths from such chronic diseases occur.

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