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ArticleJournal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine2026

The Current Status of Nuclear Medicine in Africa.

Anita Brink, Janke Kleynhans, Anna Grigoryan, Walid Omar, Bethlehem W Mekonnen, Olumayowa U Kolade, Kgomotso Mokoala, Bright A Sangiwa, Francis Hashford, Harish Nagaraj and 7 more

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Article in Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Anita BrinkDepartment of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria; a.brink@iaea.org.
Janke KleynhansRadiopharmaceutical Research, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Anna GrigoryanDepartment of Technical Cooperation, IAEA, Vienna, Austria.
Walid OmarDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Bethlehem W MekonnenNuclear Medicine Unit, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa,Ethiopia.
Olumayowa U KoladeDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Kgomotso MokoalaNuclear Medicine Research Infrastructure, Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa.
Bright A SangiwaNuclear Medicine and PET-CT Centre, Ocean Road Cancer Institute, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
Francis HashfordGhana Atomic Energy Commission, Accra, Ghana.
Harish NagarajKenyatta University Teaching Referral and Research Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya; and.
Tamer M SakrRadioactive Isotopes and Generator Department, Hot Labs Centre, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt.
Francesco GiammarileDepartment of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria.
Enrique Estrada-LobatoDepartment of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria.
Amal ElrefaeiDepartment of Technical Cooperation, IAEA, Vienna, Austria.
Peter KnollDepartment of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria.
Aruna KordeDepartment of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria.
Diana PaezDepartment of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We aimed to investigate the current status of nuclear medicine (NM) services across Africa, including identifying infrastructure gaps, radiopharmaceutical availability, systemic challenges, uneven growth trends, and efforts to improve access.

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Nuclear MedicineAfricaHumansRadiopharmaceuticalsRadiopharmaceuticalsAfricaPETradiopharmaceuticalsSPECT

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PMID41381238

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