Roadmap to Achieve 25% Hypertension Control in Africa by 2025
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Population
Populations in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with or at risk for hypertension.
Design
Guideline
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Implication
Provides a tailored roadmap to improve hypertension control in sub-Saharan Africa; extends global guidelines to a high-burden, resource-limited setting.
Key Points
- To develop practical guidance and implementation strategies to translate existing knowledge into effective action, improving the detection, treatment, and control of hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa by 2025.
- Convocated a multidisciplinary consortium of physician and non-physician experts in hypertension leadership starting in 2014.
- Conducted a situational analysis via face-to-face meetings and teleconferences to identify barriers and solutions, adapting the World Heart Federation roadmap to African health systems.
- Only 25.8% of sub-Saharan African countries have developed or adopted formal guidelines for the management of hypertension, with very few randomized controlled trials conducted locally.
- The task force established a 10-point action plan targeting governmental, health system, provider, and patient-level barriers to reach a 25% hypertension control target by 2025.
Structured PICO
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Population
Populations in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with or at risk for hypertension.
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Intervention
Implementation of the PASCAR 10-point action plan and practical treatment algorithms for hypertension.
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Outcome
Achieve 25% control of hypertension in Africa by 2025.
The PASCAR roadmap provides a customized, practical 10-point action plan and treatment algorithm to address the hypertension crisis in sub-Saharan Africa.
Cite This Study
Dzudié et al. (2017) studied this question.
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