CARDIOVASCULAR JOURNAL OF AFRICA • Volume 28, No 4, July/August 2017
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AFRICA
Roadmap to achieve 25% hypertension control in Africa
by 2025
Anastase Dzudie, Brian Rayner, Dike Ojji, Aletta E Schutte, Marc Twagirumukiza, Albertino Damasceno,
Seringe Abdou Ba, Abdoul Kane, Euloge Kramoh, Jean Baptiste Anzouan Kacou, Basden Onwubere,
Ruth Cornick, Karen Sliwa, Benedict Anisiuba, Ana Olga Mocumbi, Elijah Ogola, Mohamed Awad,
George Nel, Harun Otieno, Ali Ibrahim Toure, Samuel Kingue, Andre Pascal Kengne, Pablo Perel, Alma
Adler, Neil Poulter, Bongani Mayosi, on behalf of the PASCAR task force on hypertension
Department of Internal Medicine, Yaoundé Faculty of
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Anastase Dzudie, MD, PhD, FESC,
aitdzudie@yahoo.comSamuel Kingue, MD, PhD
Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape
Town, South Africa
Anastase Dzudie, MD, PhD, FESC
Karen Sliwa, MD, PhD
Bongani Mayosi, MD
Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa,
Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital,
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Anastase Dzudie, MD, PhD, FESC
Karen Sliwa, MD, PhD
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of
Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape
Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Brian Rayner, MD
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences,
University of Abuja; Cardiology Unit, Department
of Medicine, University of Abuja Teaching Hospital,
Gwagwalada, Abuja, Nigeria
Dike Ojji, MD
Hypertension in Africa Research Team (HART); MRC Unit
for Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease, North-West
University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Aletta E Schutte, MD
College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University
of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda and African Society of
Hypertension (AfSoH) Initiative, Heymans Institute of
Pharmacology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Marc Twagirumukiza, MD
Faculty of Medicine, Eduardo Mondlane University,
Maputo, Mozambique
Albertino Damasceno, MD
Le Dantec University Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal
Seringe Abdou Ba, MD
Service de cardiologie, Hôpital Général de Grand Yolf,
Dakar, Senegal
Abdoul Kane, MD
Institut cardiologique d’Abidjan, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
Euloge Kramoh, MD
Jean Baptiste Anzouan Kacou, MD
Department of Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching
Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria
Basden Onwubere, MD
Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town Lung
Institute and Department of Medicine, University of Cape
Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Ruth Cornick, MD
Department of Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching
Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria
Benedict Anisiuba, MD
National Health Institute, Mozambique and University
Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique
Ana Olga Mocumbi, MD
Department of Clinical Medicine and Therapeutics,
University of Nairobi, Kenya
Elijah Ogola, MD
Division of Cardiology, University of Khartoum, Khartoum,
Sudan
Mohamed Awad, MD
Pan-African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR), Cape Town,
South Africa
George Nel
Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Aga Khan
University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya
Harun Otieno, MD
Division of Cardiology, University of Khartoum, Sudan
Ali Ibrahim Toure, MD
Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
Andre Pascal Kengne, MD
Science Advisory Unit, World Heart Federation, Geneva,
Switzerland and London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, London, UK
Pablo Perel, MD
Alma Adler, MD
International Centre for Circulatory Health, Imperial
College, London, UK
Neil Poulter, MD
PASCAR Roadmap on Hypertension