Strengthening Health Systems for Chronic Care: Leveraging HIV Programs to Support Diabetes Services in Ethiopia and Swaziland

Table 1

Disease burden in Swaziland and Ethiopia.

	Ethiopia	Swaziland
Population (2010)^1	82,949,541	1,186,056
Income group (World Bank classification)	Low	Lower middle
Total health expenditure/capita ($USD)^2	$15	$156
Life expectancy at birth (2009)^2	54 years	49 years
HIV prevalence^2	2.1%	25.9%
DM prevalence^3	3.45%	2.36%
Total NCD deaths (000s)^1	161.4 (males), 176.9 (females)	2.5 (males), 2.4 (females)
Age-standardized death rate from CVD and DM (per 100,000)^1	486.1 (males), 530.3 (females)	558.2 (males), 441.9 (females)
% of all deaths attributable to NCDs^1	35%	28%
NCD branch/unit/department in MOH?^1	Yes	Yes
National diabetes plan/program?^1	No	No

¹WHO. Noncommunicable Disease Country Profiles 2011. Available at: http://www.who.int/nmh/publications/ncd_profiles2011/en/index.html (Accessed 8 March 2012).
²WHO Global Health Observatory. Available at: http://apps.who.int/ghodata/ (Accessed 8 March 2012).
³International Diabetes Federation. Diabetes Atlas 5th edition. International Diabetes Federation. Brussels; 2011. Available at http://www.idf.org/diabetesatlas (Accessed 8 March 2012).