[Nephrology in Sub-saharan Africa: Past, present, future]. / Néphrologie en Afrique subsaharienne : passé, présent, futur.
Nephrol Ther
; 17S: S37-S44, 2021 Apr.
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ABSTRACT
Nephrology was a relatively poorly known specialty in sub-Saharan Africa until the early 1980s, because of low awareness and lack of access to diagnosis and renal replacement therapies. Nephrology has seen progress on the continent despite an unfavourable economic and geopolitical environment. With a prevalence of fewer than five nephrologists per million inhabitants, the training of nephrologists, now carried out on the continent, allowed to have more than 200 specialists trained in the last decade in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. Clinical and basic research is developing with quality work published from the continent in major international journals. The population receiving haemodialysis remains small, between 0 and 200 per million inhabitants. Kidney transplantation, with a prevalence between 0 and 5 per million inhabitants, is only well structured in South Africa. In this context of scarce resources, a strategy based on the prevention of non-communicable diseases in general, and chronic kidney disease in particular, should be prioritised.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Insuficiencia Renal Crónica
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Nefrología
Tipo de estudio:
Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Africa
Idioma:
Fr
Revista:
Nephrol Ther
Asunto de la revista:
NEFROLOGIA
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TERAPEUTICA
Año:
2021
Tipo del documento:
Article