WHO backs GLP-1 drugs for long-term obesity treatment
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Bongani Bingwa speaks to Jeanette Hunter, Deputy Director-General for Primary Health Care at the National Department of Health, about South Africa’s alarming obesity crisis. According to last year’s National Food and Nutrition Security Survey, 31% of men and a staggering 68% of women in the country are overweight or obese. This landscape may soon shift, with the World Health Organization having just released its first guideline on the use of GLP-1 therapies for obesity, conditionally recommending them as part of long-term treatment for a condition that now affects more than 1 billion people worldwide.
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