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ACHIEVE conference proceedings: implementing action plans to reduce and control hypertension burden in Africa

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The prevalence of hypertension, the commonest risk factor for preventable disability and premature deaths, is rapidly increasing in Africa. The African Control of Hypertension through Innovative Epidemiology, and a Vibrant Ecosystem [ACHIEVE] conference was convened to discuss and initiate the co-implementation of the strategic solutions to tame this burden toward achieving a target of 80% for awareness, treatment, and control by the year 2030. Experts, including the academia, policymakers, patients, the WHO, and representatives of various hypertension and cardiology societies generated a 12-item communique for implementation by the stakeholders of the ACHIEVE ecosystem at the continental, national, sub-national, and local (primary) healthcare levels.

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Acknowledgements

MO and RA are supported by The National Institutes of Health grants: SIREN (U54HG007479), SIBS Genomics (R01NS107900), SIBS Gen Gen (R01NS107900‐02S1), ARISES (R01NS115944‐01), H3Africa CVD Supplement (3U24HG009780‐03S5), CaNVAS (1R01NS114045-01), Sub-Saharan Africa Conference on Stroke (SSACS) 1R13NS115395-01A1 and Training Africans to Lead and Execute Neurological Trials & Studies (TALENTS) D43TW012030. MO, FB, EU, and other ARUA team members are supported by UKRI - ref ES/T014954/1. PM and MO are supported by the University of Glasgow Scottish Funding Council and the Global Challenges Research Fund, the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (ICM) 2020-1- UK01-KA107-078782 and the Erasmus+ 2022-1-IT02-KA171-HED-000075494.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti, Nigeria

    Paul Olowoyo

  2. Department of Medicine, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria

    Paul Olowoyo

  3. Departments of Internal Medicine and Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaounde 1, Yaounde, Cameroon

    Anastase Dzudie

  4. College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, 200284, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Akinkunmi Paul Okekunle

  5. Seoul National University, 08826, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Akinkunmi Paul Okekunle

  6. Department of Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital Zaria, Zaria, Nigeria

    Reginald Obiako

  7. Departamento de Medicina, Universidade, Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique

    Ana Mocumbi

  8. Physiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, International University of Africa (IUA), Khartoum, Sudan

    Hind Beheiry

  9. Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, San Luca Hospital, Milan, Italy

    Gianfranco Parati

  10. Department of Medicine and Surgery, Univeristy of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Gianfranco Parati

  11. Division of Translational Neurosciences and Population Studies, Department of Neurology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

    Daniel T. Lackland

  12. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

    Fred S. Sarfo & Collins Kokuro

  13. Department of Medicine, University of Abuja, FCT, Abuja, Nigeria

    Augustine Odili & Dike Ojji

  14. Department of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Abiodun M. Adeoye

  15. Department of Medicine, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria

    Kolawole Wahab

  16. Department of Public & Occupational Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Charles Agyemang

  17. Departments of Medicine, Physiology, and Pharmacology and Community Health Sciences, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Norman Campbell

  18. South African Medical Research Council, Francie Van Zijl Dr, Parow Valley, Cape Town, 7501, South Africa

    Andre Pascal Kengne

  19. Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Paul K. Whelton

  20. School of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Health, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Pierpaolo Pellicori

  21. Stroke Association Support Network, Accra, Ghana

    Ad Adams Ebenezer

  22. Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Oladimeji Adebayo

  23. Department of Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Oladotun Olalusi, Rufus Akinyemi & Mayowa Owolabi

  24. Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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  25. Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Ezinne Uvere

  26. College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Olayinka Adebajo

  27. Ministry of Health, Accra, Ghana

    Baffour Awuah

  28. Resolve to Save Lives, New York, NY, USA

    Andrew Moran

  29. University College London, London, UK

    Bryan Williams

  30. Co-Lead, Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence (CoRE) in Non-Communicable Diseases & Multimorbidity, African Research Universities Alliance ARUA & The Guild, Arua, Uganda

    Tomasz J. Guzik, Fred Bukachi, Pasquale Maffia & Mayowa Owolabi

  31. Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, Queens Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Tomasz J. Guzik & Pasquale Maffia

  32. Department of Internal and Agricultural Medicine and Omicron Medical Genomics Laboratory, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, Krakow, Poland

    Tomasz J. Guzik

  33. Department of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

    Fred Bukachi

  34. Cardiology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Ibadan/ University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Okechukwu S. Ogah

  35. Department of Pharmacy, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Christian Delles

  36. School of Infection & Immunity, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Pasquale Maffia

  37. Center for Genomic and Precision Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, University College Hospital Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Rufus Akinyemi & Mayowa Owolabi

  38. WHO African Regional Office, DRC, Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Prebo Barango

  39. Department of Medicine, University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria

    Dike Ojji

  40. Lebanese American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

    Mayowa Owolabi

  41. Blossom Specialist Medical Center, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Mayowa Owolabi

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Olowoyo, P., Dzudie, A., Okekunle, A.P. et al. ACHIEVE conference proceedings: implementing action plans to reduce and control hypertension burden in Africa. J Hum Hypertens 38, 193–199 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41371-024-00903-8

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