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Building Capacity for Cardiovascular Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention and Control in Africa

The International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) welcomes you to the Building Capacity for Cardiovascular Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention and Control in Africa web pages. These pages are the result of a six-year effort to build capacity for cardiovascular health promotion and chronic disease prevention and control in the African region supported by the IUHPE and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The IUHPE and the CDC continue to support this initiative through the present platform:

• To encourage sustained communication and ongoing coordination efforts in the sub-Saharan African region to prevent and control cardiovascular disease,

• To serve course participants' needs for a resource base and a liaison / communication tool for connecting  experts, practitioners and the participants themselves,

• To provide up to date information,

• To assist participants to communicate with each other and more broadly with IUHPE members,

• To provide an easy home for all materials developed and shared at the Annual Seminars (training course tools and resources, presentations, key references from the literature, evaluation processes, findings, lessons learnt and recommendations),

• To facilitate transfer of knowledge, tools and processes to other low and middle income countries,

• To facilitate and advocate for the benefits of cardiovascular health promotion and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and risk factors prevention,

• To be a resource for anyone else interested in Cardiovascular Health Promotion in the African region.

The International Union for Health Promotion and Education is pleased to announce the launch of its web pages on Building Capacity for Cardiovascular Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention and Control in Africa.

The 6^th CDC/IUHPE Annual Seminar on Cardiovascular Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Epidemiology that took place in Entebbe, Uganda (July 8-18, 2009) marks a successful end to this series of six seminars. Building on this six year effort and existing capacity and network of dedicated professionals in Africa, the IUHPE plans to continue training seminars in-country. Please watch out for progress!

This year the Seminar immediately followed a meeting resulting in the establishment of a Consortium for Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control in Africa (CNDC - Africa) by a group of 40 individuals and institutions that had begun discussions at a 2008 Advocacy meeting to Build a case for NCDs in Africa using a Health Promotion Approach. The CNCD - Africa aims to address NCD prevention and control in sub-Saharan Africa through concerted efforts of key players in the region. Watch out for more news on the Consortium which will be launched at the 20^th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion, Geneva, Switzerland - July 11^th - 15^th 2010!

Participants and members of the faculty interested in having online discussions around specific topics / issues of interest, are invited to contact the IUHPE Programme Officer. Online dialogues can be set up and proposed upon invitation only!

For any queries, information or requests, please contact the IUHPE Programme Officer.

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