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Africa faces a neglected epidemic of chronic diseases. In countries like Ghana, Cameroon and Nigeria, chronic conditions such as stroke, hypertension, diabetes and cancers cause a greater number of medical admissions and deaths compared to communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS or tuberculosis. Experts recognize that a problem exists and attribute it to an interaction of factors including medical, psychological, socio-cultural, economic, structural and geopolitical. There is a consensus that successful interventions have to be ‘multi-faceted and multi-institutional’. However, research, practice and policy responses remain inadequate. In 2006, the British Academy awarded a UK-Africa Partnership grant to Dr Ama de-Graft Aikins from the University of Cambridge, and Dr Daniel Arhinful, from the University of Ghana, to develop a programme of collaborative research on the subject of Africa’s ‘neglected epidemic’: Developing a multidisciplinary research and intervention model for chronic disease. The collaborative research partnership currently has an active membership of thirty four academics from the social and medical sciences and the humanities based in the UK, the Netherlands, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and Cameroon. It aims to develop an interdisciplinary model for chronic disease research, intervention and policy to address the rising public health challenges posed by chronic diseases in many African countries. The project is based at the University of Cambridge, the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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