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250 people have benefited from the screening of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in the last six months. Kigezi Healthcare Foundation allocates one week every month to screen people from poor urban settings for non-communicable diseases. This majorly focuses on Diabetes, High blood pressure, cervical cancer breast cancer and prostate cancer. The urban poor in Uganda face challenges combating non-communicable diseases (NCDs) due to poor access to healthcare, financial barriers, limited health education, and environmental factors. They experience understaffed public clinics with limited hours and user fees at private facilities that are unaffordable, compounded by transport issues and a lack of essential medicines. 

Rapid urbanization in Africa has been linked to the growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Urbanization processes have amplified lifestyle risk factors for NCDs (including unhealthy diets, tobacco use, harmful alcohol intake, and physical inactivity), especially among individuals of low and middle social economic status. Nevertheless, African countries are not keeping pace with the ever-increasing need for population-level interventions such as health promotion through education, screening, diagnosis, and treatment, as well as structural measures such as policies and legislation to prevent and control the upstream factors driving the NCD epidemic. There are inadequate policies to specifically target the urban poor populations. The public health facilities have shortages of human resource and medical supplies. Most of the people from the urban poor communities are diagnosed late with cancer and can not afford expensive medications for hypertension and Diabetes. Kigezi Healthcare Foundation offers free screening for Non Communicable diseases and free medication to these vulnerable communities once every month for a whole week.