Report on the 'ISH Teaching Seminar', organised by the 'ISH Low and Middle Income Countries Committee' in Maputo, Mozambique, on 21-22 September 2006.

摘要

The main purpose of the 'Low and Middle Income Countries Committee' of the International Society of Hypertension is to encourage and enhance education and biomedical research in the fields of hypertension and associated cardiovascular diseases in the developing world. In agreement with this mission, the 'Europe-Africa Subcommittee' organised its first 'ISH Teaching Seminar' in Maputo, Mozambique, on 21-22 September 2006, under the direction of R. Fagard and local host A. Damasceno, and in collaborationwith the International Forum for Hypertension Control and Prevention in Africa (IFHA). Other faculty members were D. Lemogoum (Cameroun), J.R. M'Buyamba-Kabangu (Democratic Republic of Congo), S. Mendis (WHO), B. Onwubere (Nigeria), J. Polonia (Portugal) and Y. Seedat (South Africa).