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HEARTS, which dates from 2016, seeks to support governments in strengthening prevention and control of
cardiovascular diseases to save lives and help countries meet the global goal to reduce by a third premature deaths
from noncommunicable diseases by 2030.
Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago are the two other countries in the English-speaking Caribbean where HEARTS
is being implemented. In the rest of the Americas, the project is also active in Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Colombia,
Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Dominican Republic. Eleven more countries in the world are part of the
initiative.
The results of the project in participating health centers in the region show an increase of about 30 percent in the
number of people with hypertension who are undergoing treatment, and a similar increase among people who have
their blood pressure controlled.

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