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Essay Road Traffi c Injury Is an Escalating Burden in Africa and Deserves Proportionate Research Efforts Emmanuel Lagarde esearch into road safety in arranged a consultation meeting developing countries is scarce, in April 2001, which led to a report Respecially in Africa. This entitled “A 5-year WHO strategy for is inconsistent with the size of the road traffi c injury prevention” that problem: it has been predicted that by summarises the main recommendations 2020, road traffi c injuries will rank as from the working group [8]. In 2003, high as third among causes of disability- the United Nations Secretary-General adjusted life years (DALYs) lost [1]. sounded the alarm with an offi cial While South-East Asia has the highest statement [9] describing the global proportion of global road fatalities public health challenge posed by (one-third of the 1.4 million occurring road traffi c injuries and encouraging each year in the world), the road Member States to address the problem. traffi c injury mortality rate is highest One of the recommendations is to in Africa (28.3 per 100,000 population promote and facilitate research on when corrected for under-reporting, this subject, especially in low-income doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040170.g001 compared with 11.0 in Europe [2]). I countries where knowledge gaps Figure 1. Number of References Related to selected African countries with recent often jeopardise appropriate resource Road Traffi c Injury and HIV/AIDS, from the available data on road mortality and allocation. Much needs to be done. PubMed Database number of vehicles in use