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The WHO-Intersectoral Global Action Plan (IGAP) on epilepsy and other neurologic disorders in sub-Saharan Africa: an Italian Society of Neurology intervention model

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Thanks for inspiring this manuscript to:

• DREAM Program, Community of Sant’Egidio (https://www.dream-health.org/?lang=en)

• Fondazione Società Italiana di Neurologia (http://www.neuro.it/web/eventi/NEURO/societa.cfm?p=fondazione)

• Fondazione Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta (https://www.istituto-besta.it/en/la-fondazione)

• Mariani Foundation (http://www.fondazione-mariani.org/en/)

Thanks to Professor Giuseppe Lauria Pinter for reading the manuscript.

Thanks to the Study Group “The Italian Society of Neurology and the Developing Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa” of the Italian Society of Neurology.

Thanks to the adult and pediatric neurologists of the Global Health Telemedicine platform.

Thanks to the DREAM personnel and their valuable daily work.

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  1. Department of Neuroalgology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Via Celoria 11, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Massimo Leone

  2. https://www.neuro.it/web/eventi/NEURO/index.cfm

    Massimo Leone, Alfredo Berardelli & Alessandro Padovani

  3. Drug Relief Through Excellent and Advanced Means (DREAM) program, Community of Sant’Egidio, Rome, Italy

    Massimo Leone & Giovanni Guidotti

  4. Global Health Telemedicine, Rome, Italy

    Massimo Leone

  5. Department of Human Neurosciences, Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

    Alfredo Berardelli

  6. IRCCS Neuromed, Isernia, Italy

    Alfredo Berardelli

  7. Minister of Health, Bangui, Central African Republic

    Pierre Somse

  8. Dipartimento Di Scienze Cliniche Sperimentali, Clinica Neurologica, Università Degli Studi Di Brescia, UO Neurologia 2, ASST Spedali Civili, Policlinico Satellite, Brescia, Italy

    Alessandro Padovani

  9. Health Department, Azienda Sanitaria Locale (ASL), Roma 1, Regione Lazio, , Rome, Italy

    Giovanni Guidotti

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Leone, M., Berardelli, A., Somse, P. et al. The WHO-Intersectoral Global Action Plan (IGAP) on epilepsy and other neurologic disorders in sub-Saharan Africa: an Italian Society of Neurology intervention model. Neurol Sci 45, 2927–2929 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-024-07338-6

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