IXL Social Enterprise Case Studies Chronic Diseases October, 2013 | Page 6

Improving Chronic Disease Care in Slums by 2019

Number of cases (millions)

Estimation of NCDs cases in slums
worldwide
300
250
200
150
100
50
-

245
174
123
57

Using USA data

155
38

74

36

37

4

Using Global data

Figure 2. Chronic diseases affect hundreds of millions of slum dwellers
“Cancer, diabetes, and heart diseases are
no longer the diseases of