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READD -ADSP

The Recruitment and Retention for Alzheimer’s Disease Diversity Cohorts in the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (READ-ADSP) aims to recruit 400 participants, comprising 200 cases of dementia (including Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairments, frontotemporal dementia, and Parkinson’s disease).

Why now: Recruiting individuals for Alzheimer’s disease genetic studies in Sub-Saharan Africa is challenging, especially for those with low socioeconomic status and living in rural areas, due to cultural stigma.

Expected outcome: This project aims to enhance Alzheimer’s disease genetic studies in underrepresented African ancestry and Hispanic/Latinx populations

Funding: National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Research lead: Professor David Ndetei, Dr Victoria Mutiso, and Professor Raj Kalaria.

(AFRIMEB) is a public benefit organization, based in Kenya dedicated to research in mental and neurological health and, substance use to generate evidence for policy and best practice in the provision of affordable, appropriate, available and accessible mental health services.

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Africa Institute of Mental and Brain Health (AFRIMEB). Matumbato Rd, Nairobi, Kenya. P.O Box 48423-00100

+(254) 202651360

info@amhf.or.ke