Epidemiological transition and the double burden of disease in Accra, Ghana • Samuel Agyei-Mensah, University of Ghana ; Ama de-Graft Aikins, University of Cambridge

Morbidity in India: Is the Country Facing the Dual Burden of Communicable and Non communicable Diseases? • Soumitra Ghosh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

Epidemiological transition in Morocco • Imane Jroundi, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie de Rabat

Profile and high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in an urban black African population • K Tibazarwa, University of the Witwatersrand ; L Ntyinyane, University of the Witwatersrand ; K Sliwa, University of the Witwatersrand ; T Gerntholtz, University of the Witwatersrand ; D Wilkinson, University of Queensland ; Simon Stewart, Baker Heart Research Institute