4TH CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

AMSA-IUA Fourth International Health Conference

African Medical Students Association

at the International University of Africa (AMSA-IUA)

Fourth International Health Conference,

8^th -9^th January 2016

Under the Theme:

NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN AFRICA,

“A burden that can no longer be ignored”

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Africa is not a healthy continent per se. It carries 25% of the world’s disease burden and only 1.3% of the world’s health workforce.

Africa is the second largest and second most populous continent, accounts for about 15% of human population and covers about 30.2 million km². Africa is now faced with double burden of diseases; communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are now the leading cause of death in the most regions of the world. Africa is expected to have the largest increase in NCDs over the next decade, this will cause huge burden to the continent .Non-communicable diseases has been identified into four main categories according to WHO; 1-Cardiovasicular diseases such as Heart attacks and strokes.2-Chronic respiratory diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and Asthma 3-Cancers such as cervical cancer which is the second most common cancer for female, oral cancer, breast cancer, prostate  and lung cancer. 4-Diabete divides into type 1 and type 2. These diseases share four risk factors- tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, physical inactivity and unhealthy diet- More than 36million people die each year from NCDs, and nearly 80% of these are from low to middle –income countries, conclusively socioeconomics have played a vital role in NCDs therefore preventing

The Dean and the Faculty Pharmacy family awarding certificate of Excellence to

 Pharm. Zainab Babiriye, Former AMSA-IUA Chairlady

The faculty of pharmacy and the African medical students’ association at IUA (AMSA-IUA) extends their profound felicitations and gratitude to the former AMSA-IUA  chairlady Zainab Bariye from Uganda for being the best academic students for batch five (2010-2015) in the faculty of pharmacy after attaining an Excellent grade.