The Heart Fund

Building the leading Africa-led platform to tackle NCDs in Africa. Join the movement!

[The Heart Fund @TheHeartFund]

Development and evaluation of a package to improve #hypertension control in #Nigeria

https://t.co/bz7X8hFhLt

[The Heart Fund @TheHeartFund]

It's Friday! Our bi-montly #globalhealth review with a focus on #africa by @rGayeBamba

Including African Americans in #genomicstudies can result in five times more accurate prediction of #disease risk in the #African population.

https://t.co/nFKuOdsCcQ

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The overall quality of available evidence on community-based arterial hypertension #aHT #care is low.

https://t.co/VUZtAIX1j0

[The Heart Fund @TheHeartFund]

🗓 #savethedate We’ll be participating to the #webinar our partner @UPLLtd will be hosting tomorrow! We will discuss how our partnership has been improving communities’s cardiovascular health in #rural #cotedivoire Be there! #Africa #Sustainability

https://t.co/lPNrE2xQmH

[The Heart Fund @TheHeartFund]

#cancer mortality in sub-Saharan Africa could reach 1 million by 2030 without rapid interventions

https://t.co/mRiKx9Zs6X

[The Heart Fund @TheHeartFund]

It's Friday! Our bi-montly #globalhealth review with a focus on #africa by @rGayeBamba

Use of Traditional Medicine☘️ and control of hypertension 🩺: a cross-sectional study in 12 African countries. Just published in @GlobalHealthBMJ with
@rGayeBamba

https://t.co/l48OvC3Vxy

[The Heart Fund @TheHeartFund]

Lower #COVID19 mortality among physically active individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa

https://t.co/OCAvBwyFiF

[The Heart Fund @TheHeartFund]

Our COO Virginie Gallardo and Dr. Sana Chatti, cardiovascular surgeon and member of our medical team, are in #Geneva all week end to attend the #WorldHeartSummit's exciting panel discussions @worldheartfed! #globalhealth #cardiovascularhealth #theheartfund

[The Heart Fund @TheHeartFund]

This high prevalence is still carried on... Follow our upcoming publications

https://t.co/N5FDQUZw9h

[The Heart Fund @TheHeartFund]

#WorldHypertensionDay Though some data from in-hospital or selected populations are available, there are very few studies reporting community-level prevalence of Severe Hypertension (SH) in sub-Saharan Africa

[The Heart Fund @TheHeartFund]

THF will keep making every effort to screen, detect and and implement achievable solutions to tackle Hypertension and SH in particular.

[The Heart Fund @TheHeartFund]

Toward increasing #diversity in #genetic studies. "The distribution of ancestry data contained in the GWAS catalog for studies published from March 2005 to January 2022" only 0.7% specified as being from sub-Saharan #Africa 👇🏾

https://t.co/QDdpqxQZD6

[The Heart Fund @TheHeartFund]

It's Friday! Our biweekly #globalhealth review with a focus on #africa by @rGayeBamba

Stressful life events, neighbourhood characteristics, and systolic blood pressure in #SouthAfrica 👇🏾

https://t.co/J6v2MHu5vf

[The Heart Fund @TheHeartFund]

The burden of #renal admissions in a tertiary #hospital in #SierraLeone👇🏾

https://t.co/Ev9z8Zirk7

[The Heart Fund @TheHeartFund]

#helpWanted #medicalSupply #medicine #ukraine

https://t.co/KH6McolCPC

[The Heart Fund @TheHeartFund]

"When the Polyclinic N°7 where she had worked for 20 years was evacuated on March 5, there was no way Olena Doro gave up being a doctor and stayed home."

Read Dr. Doro's full story 👇and how you can support the #emergency #relief we are carrying out for #Ukrainian #doctors

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#SouthSouth partnerships in #cardiovascular #research in Africa: empowering the next generation of cardiovascular researchers... (learn more👇🏾)

https://t.co/urpUdzwznk

[The Heart Fund @TheHeartFund]

Our biweekly #globalhealth review with a focus on #africa by @rGayeBamba

Deaths from noncommunicable diseases #NCDs on the rise in #Africa (learn more👇🏾)

https://t.co/mjb9roGFgE

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A concerning high prevalence of pre-hypertension and #hypertension among primary school learners (learn more 👇🏾)

https://t.co/RfRIx88foa