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Cochrane Africa is a network of researchers and health stakeholders who aim to support the use of high quality Cochrane evidence to improve health outcomes in Africa. It comprises a coordinating centre in South Africa, a Francophone hub directed from Cameroon, a Southern and Eastern Africa Hub directed from South Africa and a West Africa Hub directed from Nigeria. The network supports the engagement with healthcare decision makers to guide priorities, production of high quality context-relevant Cochrane systematic reviews, capacity building to conduct and use reviews, dissemination of evidence, knowledge translation, partnerships for evidence-informed healthcare and the creation of opportunities to expand the network.
‘We invite interested parties (researchers, health care providers, journalists, policy-makers, consumers) to visit our website [https://africa.cochrane.org/] and join us to strengthen the network, add relevance to the work we do and reduce inequities in health research that lead to inequities in health outcomes’
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Best wishes, Neil
Coordinator, HIFA Project on Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice
http://www.hifa.org/projects/evidence-informed-policy-and-practice