The Nairobi Declaration—Reducing the burden of dementia in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): Declaration of the 2022 Symposium on Dementia and Brain Aging in LMICs

Gladys Maestre

Departments of Neuroscience and Human Genetics, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, TX, USA

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Maria Carrillo

Alzheimer's Association, Chicago, IL, USA

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Corresponding Author

Raj Kalaria

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Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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Raj Kalaria, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL, United Kingdom.

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Daisy Acosta

Internal Medicine Department, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

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Larry Adams

Institute of Human Genomics, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

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Thierry Adoukonou

Department of Neurology, University of Parakou, Parakou, Benin

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Kazeem Akinwande

Department of Chemical Pathology and Immunology, Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, Nigeria

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Joshua Akinyemi

College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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Rufus Akinyemi

Institute for Advanced Medical Research and Training, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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Onoja Akpa

College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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Suvarna Alladi

Department of Neurology, NIMHANS, Bangalore, India

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Ricardo Allegri

Department of Cognitive Neurology, Instituto Neurologico Fleni, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Raul Arizaga

Neurología Cognitiva y Neuropsicología, Hospital Dr. Cesar Milstein, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Faheem Arshad

Department of Neurology, NIMHANS, Bengaluru, India

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Oyedunni Arulogun

Department of Health Promotion and Education, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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David Babalola

University College Hospital, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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Olusegun Baiyewu

Department of Psychiatry, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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Thomas Bak

Department of Neurology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

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Tarek Bellaj

Department of Psychological Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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Judith Boshe

Department of Medicine, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College, Moshi, Tanzania

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Carol Brayne

Cambridge Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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David Brodie-Mends

Department of Medicine, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

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Richard Brown

Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

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Jennifer Cahn

Departments of Neuroscience and Human Genetics, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, TX, USA

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Nkouonlack Cyrille

Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Buea, Buea & Brain Research Africa Initiative, Yaounde, Cameroon

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Albertino Damasceno

Department of Medicine, University of Maputo, Maputo, Mozambique

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Ranil de Silva

Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Rathmalana, Sri Lanka

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Rohan de Silva

Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK

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Mamuka Djibuti

Partnership for Research and Action for Health, Tbilisi, Georgia

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Anna Jane Dreyer

Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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Ratnavalli Ellajosyula

Department of Neurology, Manipal Hospitals, Bangalore, India

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Temitope Farombi

Department of Neurology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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Bernard Fongang

Glenn Biggs Institute, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA

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Stefania Forner

Alzheimer's Association, Chicago, IL, USA

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Rob Friedland

Department of Neurology, University of Louisville, Louisville, USA

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Noe Garza

Departments of Neuroscience and Human Genetics, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Harlingen, TX, USA

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Antoine Gbessemehlan

institute of Epidemiology and Tropical Neurology, University of Limoges, Bordeaux, France

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Eliza (Eleni- Zacharoula) Georgiou

Department of Psychiatry, Medicine, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

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Riadh Gouider

Neurology Department, Razi University Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia

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Ishtar Govia

Caribbean Institute for Health Research, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica

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Lea Grinberg

Department of Neurology, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

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Maëlenn Guerchet

Inserm U1094, IRD UMR270, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, EpiMaCT - Epidemiology of chronic diseases in tropical zone, Institute of Epidemiology and Tropical Neurology, OmegaHealth, Limoges, France

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Seid Gugssa

Department of Neurology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Joy Louise Gumikiriza-Onoria

Department of Psychiatry, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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Deborah Gustafson

Department of Neurology, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA

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Eef Hogervorst

Department of Psychology, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, UK

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Michael Hornberger

Department of Neurology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

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Agustin Ibanez

Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile

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Masafumi Ihara

Department of Neurology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan

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Ozama Ismail

Alzheimer's Association, Chicago, IL, USA

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Thomas Issac

Centre for Brain Research (CBR), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India

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Linus Jönsson

Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

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Celestin Kaputu

Department of Neurology, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Wambui Karanja

Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College, Nairobi, Kenya

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Jackline Karungi

Department of Psychiatry, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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Desire Tshala-Katumbay

Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

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Brian Kunkle

Institute of Human Genomics, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

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Joseph H Lee

Sergievsky Center & Taub Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

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Iracema Leroi

TCIN, Lloyd Building, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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Raphaella Lewis

Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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Gill Livingston

Department of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK

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Francisco Lopera

Grupo de Neurociencias de Antioquia, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia

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Kamada Lwere

Department of Medical Microbiology, Makerere University, Mulago, Uganda

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Facundo Manes

Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCYT), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Lingani Mbakile-Mahlanza

Department of Psychology, University of Botswana, Gabrone, Botswana

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Pedro Mena

Institute of Human Genomics, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

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Bruce Miller

Department of Neurology, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

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Athanase Millogo

Department of Neurology, University of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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Abdul Mohamed

Department of Psychology, Linnaeus University, Vaxjo, Sweden

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Christine Musyimi

African Mental Health Research & Training Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya

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Victoria Mutiso

African Mental Health Research & Training Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya

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Noeline Nakasujja

Department of Psychiatry, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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David Ndetei

Africa Mental Health Research and Training Foundation and University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

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Sam Nightingale

Department of Neurology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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Alfred K. Njamnshi

Department of Neurology, FMBS, The University of Yaoundé I & Brain Research Africa Initiative, Yaounde, Cameroon

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Gabriela Novotni

Department of Neurology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia

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Primrose Nyamayaro

Department of Psychology, University of Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe

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Solomon Nyame

Kintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Kintampo, Ghana

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Julius Ogeng'o

Department of Human Anatomy & Medical Physiology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

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Adesola Ogunniyi

Department of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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Maira Okada De Oliveira

Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology Unit, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

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Njideka Okubadejo

Neurology Unit, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria

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Martin Orrell

Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

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Akintunde Orunmuyi

Integrated Molecular Imaging Centre, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

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Mayowa Owolabi

Center for Genomic and Precision Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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Stella Paddick

Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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Margaret A Pericak-Vance

Institute of Human Genomics, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

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Zvezdan Pirtosek

Department of Neurology, Ljubljana University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Felix Potocnik

Department of Geriatric Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, Durbanville, South Africa

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Bill Preston

Roots Worldwide LLC and Innovative California Biosciences International Inc, Fullerton, CA, USA

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Rema Raman

Alzheimer's Therapeutic Research Institute, University of Southern California, San Diego, CA, USA

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Kirti Ranchod

Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Mie Rizig

UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK

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Monica Rosselli

Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Miami, FL, USA

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Roy Deepa

Department of Health and Biomedical Science, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, TX, USA

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Upal Roy

Department of Health and Biomedical Science, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, TX, USA

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Marufjon Salokhiddinov

Zangiota-2 Clinical Hospital, Tashkent Medical Academy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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Mary Sano

Alzheimer's Disease Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

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Fred Sarfo

Department of Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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Claudia L Satizabal

Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases and Department of Population Health Sciences, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States

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Diego Sepulveda-Falla

Institute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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Sudha Seshadri

Glenn Biggs Institute, University of Texas, San Antonio, MA, USA

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Claire Sexton

Alzheimer's Association, Chicago, IL, USA

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Ingmar Skoog

Center of Health and Aging (AgeCap), University of Gothenburg, Goteborg, Sweden

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Peter St George-Hyslop

Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Division of Neurology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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Claudia Suemoto

Division of Geriatrics, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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Jeremy Tanner

Glenn Biggs Institute, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA

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Prekshya Thapa

Department of Psychiatric Nursing, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

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Kamadore Toure

Department of Neurology, Université de Thiès, Thies, Senegal

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Valentine Ucheagwu

Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College, Onitsha, Nigeria

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Chinedu Udeh-Momoh

School of Public Health, Imperial College London, Worcester Park, UK

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Global Brain Health Institute, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

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Jeffery Vance

Institute of Human Genomics, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

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Mathew Varghese

Department of Psychiatry, St John's Medical College, Bangalore, India

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Jaime Vera

Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

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Department of Medicine, North Tyneside General Hospital, North Shields, UK

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Alzheimer's Disease International, London, UK

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Cambridge Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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Patrice Whitehead Gay

Institute of Human Genomics, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

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Henrik Zetterberg

Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Moelndal Hospital, Moelndal, Sweden

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Yared Zewde

Department of Neurology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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The African Dementia Consortium

The African Dementia Consortium, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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