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The African Stroke Organization — a new dawn for stroke in Africa

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The African Stroke Organization has been inaugurated as a pan-African coalition of stroke researchers, clinicians, allied health-care professionals, national and regional stroke societies and stroke support organizations in response to the escalating burden of stroke in the continent.

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R.O.A. is the Founding Chair of the Steering Committee of the African Stroke Organization. M.B. is the Immediate Past President of the World Stroke Organization and was President at the time of the African Stroke Organization inauguration.

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  1. Institute for Advanced Medical Research and Training, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Rufus O. Akinyemi

  2. Centre for Genomic and Precision Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Rufus O. Akinyemi

  3. Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Rufus O. Akinyemi

  4. Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Preventive Medicine, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria

    Michael Brainin

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African Stroke Organization: http://africanstrokeorganization.org/

United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/health/

World Stroke Organization: https://www.world-stroke.org/

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Akinyemi, R.O., Brainin, M. The African Stroke Organization — a new dawn for stroke in Africa. Nat Rev Neurol 17, 127–128 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-021-00456-1

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