Diabetes and Hypertension clinics in sub-saharan Africa
Active Between: 2014-2020
Contributing to SDGs…




The diabetes and hypertension clinics in sub-saharan Africa aim to improve the management of diabetes and hypertension through capacity building by providing material for diagnostic and care, training health care professionals and implementing a digital tool to facilitate data collection
MEMBER COMPANIES
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Sanofi
Company Profile
PARTNER ORGANISATIONS
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Academia or research institute
UNFM Université Numérique FrancophoneMondialeContribution
Provide the support for the digital tool
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Government
Ministry of Health Senegal
Ministry of Health Cameroon
Ministry of Health Ivory Coast
Objectives
The collaboration objectives are to improve screening and management of diabetes and hypertension through the establishment of these specialised clinics
Diabetes and hypertension are chronic diseases that are a huge public health issue in Africa. Still today, patients remain under-diagnosed due to lack of disease awareness and poor access to dedicated infrastructures. Since 2014, Sanofi supported the setup of 31 dedicated medical structures called diabetes and hypertension clinics in Cameroon, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire in partnership with local authorities. This project aims to improve the management of diabetes and hypertension through capacity building: providing material for diagnostic and care, training health care professionnals.
To reinforce this project, a digital tool has recently been launched in order to capture patients data at selected clinics that will become reference centers.
SDGs THE PARTNERSHIP CONTRIBUTES TO

SDG 3: Good Health and Wellbeing
- 3.4: NCDs (including mental health)
- 3.8: Achieve universal health coverage
SDG 9: Industry Innovation and Infrastructure

SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
video summarising the project https://youtu.be/3T0Q8D5py7U
FURTHER READING
Geographic Reach
Africa
- Cameroon
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Senegal
Disease Area
Non-communicable Diseases
- Diabetes
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Type 1
- General
- Type 2
- Hypertension