Provides a strategic roadmap to improve hypertension detection, treatment, and control across Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve a 25% control rate by 2025.
Supports adoption of the PASCAR roadmap to raise hypertension control in Africa; extends prior strategies toward the 2025 target.
Hypertension affects millions of people in SSA and if left untreated, is a major cause of heart disease and stroke. Very few SSA countries have a clear hypertension policy. This PASCAR roadmap identifies practical and effective solutions that would improve detection, treatment and control of hypertension on the continent and could be implemented as is or adapted to specific national settings.
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