This systematic review highlights the critically low levels of hypertension awareness, treatment, and control in Africa, emphasizing the need for targeted research and policy interventions.
There are low levels of awareness and treatment of hypertension and even lower levels of control. Tailored research is required to uncover specific reasons behind these low levels of awareness and treatment, and especially control, in order to inform policy formulation for the improvement of outcomes of hypertensive patients in Africa.
Kayima et al. (2013) studied this question.