Syndemic of hypertension, diabetes, mental illness and HIV

Project: Research

Project Details

Description

The Ministry of Health in Eswatini embarks on the national scale-up of decentralized care for hypertension and diabetes, in an attempt to address the overburdened health system. The WHO-pen project is a cluster-randomized trial to assess the most efficient way of organizing the decentralization.

The syndemics project is part of WHO-pen and uses the community-based surveys to map the syndemic of prevalent infectious and non-infectious diseases. It tries to elucidate if specific scale-up strategies for different groups are warranted to improve decentralized care.
AcronymWHO-pen
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/06/1931/12/23

Collaborative partners

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Heidelberg University  (lead)
  • Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Project partner)
  • University of Eswatini (Project partner)
  • Georg-August University Göttingen (Project partner)
  • The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Project partner)
  • Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (Project partner)
  • Swaziland Business Coalition on Health and AIDS
  • Diabetes Swaziland

UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This project contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

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