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Liesl Zühlke, Sulafa Ali, Moneim Elseed, PANPACH: The First Independent Paediatric Workshop of the Pan African Network for Paediatric and Congenital Heart (PANPACH), European Heart Journal, Volume 38, Issue 47, 14 December 2017, Pages 3483–3485, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehx707
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The Pan-African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR) was founded in 1981 in Badagry, Nigeria. The Society consists of physicians and cardiac societies from across Africa involved in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease and is concerned with the lack of progress in the diagnosis and effective treatment of cardiovascular disease across Africa. It consists of African Cardiac Societies in the five regions of Africa: North, South, East, West, and Central with more than 20 countries currently involved.
PASCAR has four major aims:
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To achieve these aims, there are nine task-forces, leading the scientific and research arms of PASCAR. These are:
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These taskforces have been instrumental in scientific meetings, in developing policy documents,3 conducting research4 and implementing new African-focused guidelines.5
The most recent PASCAR congress was held from 7 to 11 October 2017 in conjunction with the Sudan Heart Society and the Pan-African Course on Interventional Cardiology (PAFCIC) in Khartoum, Sudan. It was preceded by several workshops and ended with the African Summit on Circulatory Disease, hosted by the World Heart Federation.