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ajo ild with an estimated 80 % of these occurring in low and national governments, civil society and international Senekal et al. BMC Public Health (2015) 15:186 DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-1531-xopment Goals despite the fact that it has a profoundAfrica Full list of author information is available at the end of the articlemiddle income countries [2]. However, the majority of these diseases can be prevented through limiting expos-ure to the known shared risk factors such as unhealthy agencies [2,3]. Proven cost-effective strategies to pre-vent and control this growing burden are available, but high-level commitment and concrete actions are fre-quently missing at national level [1]. Limited resources in terms of funding for NCD prevention and control programmes is a further concern [5]. NCD prevention is not among the Millennium Devel