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Regional Cardiac Needs - Africa: How to Heal the Global South

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Regional Cardiac Needs - Africa: How to Heal the Global South (EN)
Yankah, Charles
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2025-02-13
Background: The current population of Africa of 1.4 billion will double by 2050. Similarly the pediatric (43%: 387,6 million, < 15 yrs old) as the student age (< 25 years) population (60% : 884 millIion) will double. About 1- 4% of babies are born with congenital heart disease and 1-30% are susceptible to develop preventable rheumatic heart disease caused by streptococcal throat infection associated with rheumatic fever. Only 2% (0.5-3.4%) of children with heart diseases have access to heart surgery. Open heart surgery per million population in sub-Saharan Africa is 5/million as compared to 116/ million in South America, WHO recommends 400 OHS/million which is currently impossible in Africa even the 40 OHS/million suggested by PASCaTS remains unmet. (EN)
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Journal of Humanitarian Cardiovascular Medicine; Vol. 1 No. 3 (2024): Current Publications (EN)
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Kalangos Foundation (Global Forum on Humanitarian Medicine in Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery (GFHM))
Journal of Humanitarian Cardiovascular Medicine
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