Table of Contents

1. Alcohol and smoking: impact of behavioral risk factors2. Urbanisation, upward mobility, demographics, environmental changes and availabity of natural resources in sub-saharan africa (ssa)3. Review of traditional digestive diseases common in ssa4. Epidemiology of digestive diseases in ssa: trends that are occurring5. Emerging non-intestinal diseases arising in ssa6. Changes in nutritional status of africans: recommendations for sub-saharan africa7. Cancer of the esophagus in sub-saharan africa8. Dodenal ulcer and diet in sub-saharan africa9. Helicobacter pylori in sub-saharan africa10. Pancreatitis in sub-saharan africa11. H.i.v. And the digestive system12. Characteristics of inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) in sub-saharan africa13. Abominal tuberculosis in sub-saharan africa14. Colorectal cancer in sub-saharan africa15. Aspects of viral hepatitis in sub-saharan africa in the 21st century16. Hepatocellular carcinoma in africa17. Biliary disease in sub-saharan africa18. Amoebiasis in sub-saharan africa: problems and possible solutions19. Intestinal schistosomiasis in sub-saharan africa20. Cholera in sub-saharan africa21. Conclusions: problems and possible solutions

About the Author

Prince of Wales Hospital, Gastrointestinal and Liver Unit, Emeritus Professor University of Witwatersrand