Resources

The ACACIA project wants to produce outcomes and resources that can help us to understand and improve asthma in African children. In 2019 our focus is to collect information from children with asthma. We will publicise our first outcomes and ressources in 2020. 

Publications related to ACACIA

• Sheikh A, Campbell H, Balharry D et al. 2019: The UK’s Global Health Respiratory Network: Improving respiratory health of the world’s poorest through research collaborations. J. Glob. Health, 9(2), 020104

Some background reading:

Papers and Reports:

• Adeloye D, Chan KY, Rudan I, Campbell H. An estimate of asthma prevalence in Africa: a systematic analysis. Croat Med J. 2013;54:519-31.

• Global Initiative for Asthma. Pocket Guide for Asthma Management and Prevention. 2018. 28p.

• Global Initiative for Asthma. The Global Asthma Report 2018. 92p.  

• Harris K, Mosler G, Williams SA, Whitehouse A, Raine R, Grigg J. Asthma control in London secondary school children. J Asthma [Internet]. 2017;54(10):1033-40. 

• Mosler G, Euba T. Taking control through drama. Lancet [Internet]. 2017;6736(17):1-2.

Websites:

• GAN (Global Asthma Network)

• Asthma UK

• GINA (Global INitiative for Asthma)

• Impala (International and Multidisciplinary Programme to Address Lung health and TB in Africa)

• My Asthma in School