The Multilink Consortium, a partnership between the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Program, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, has published the first-of-its-kind research in sub-Saharan Africa to examine the scale and impact of “multimorbidity” in patients admitted acutely to hospital. Multimorbidity refers to the presence of two or more chronic diseases.
Study shows almost half of hospital patients in Malawi and Tanzania have multiple health conditions
