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Health Issues in Africa

Health Issues in Africa is an online news portal dedicated to exclusive and comprehensive coverage of the issues surrounding health and development affecting the people of the African continent.

Our readers include policymakers, health professionals working in the government, private and non-profit sector, research and the media.

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Every year in Africa, millions of people die, and billions of dollars in the economy is lost due to health issues. The three most common health issues in Africa are HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Diarrhoea.

HIV/Aids

Out of the 34 million HIV-positive people worldwide, 69% live in sub-Saharan Africa. There are roughly 23.8 million infected persons in all of Africa. 91% of the world’s HIV-positive children live in Africa. More than one million adults and children die every year from HIV/AIDS in Africa alone.

Diarrhoeal diseases

The fact that almost 40 percent of all diarrhoea deaths in children under five worldwide occur in the African region is striking. The diarrhoea mortality burden among children under five in Sub-Saharan Africa reveals the persistent magnitude of this preventable and treatable disease in the region.

Malaria

It is because the most effective malaria vector – the mosquito Anopheles gambiae – is the most widespread in Africa and the most difficult to control, ninety percent of all malaria deaths in Africa occur in young children.

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The situation of access to clean water and sanitation in rural Africa is even more dismal than the previous statistics imply. The WHO (2006) stated that, in 2004, only 16% of people in sub-Saharan Africa had access to drinking water through a household connection (an indoor tap or a tap in the yard).

When it comes to killer diseases in Africa many people think of infectious diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, or even Ebola. But the reality is thatdiseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease – known as non–communicable diseases (NCDs) – are a major threat.

Access to medicines refers to the  ability for people to get needed medicines required. Such access is part of the right to health as supported by international law since 1946. The World Health Organization states that essential medicines should be available, of good quality, and accessible.

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May 17, 2022 By Lalita Panicker Leave a Comment

Even as most of the world rises to a slowly receding COVID wave, North Korea on Sunday reported 15 additional deaths from “fever” after the country recently announced its first-ever cases of COVID-19 and ordered nationwide lockdowns, television channel NDTV citing AFP reports said. www.ndtv.com/world-news/north-korea-coronavirus-north-korea-covid-north-korea-coronavirus-cases-north-koreas-explosive-covid-outbreak-820-620-cases-in-3-days-2977028 State media KCNA said a total of 42 people had […]

Global Elite are Bored with Health, Just When It’s Getting Really Exciting

May 16, 2022 By admin Leave a Comment

Following the Raisina Dialogue in India, global leaders continue to neglect the exciting and groundbreaking developments in global health. Many of these developments, if properly implemented, could see African nations create more effective health programmes than higher income countries who are overlooking key new technologies and discoveries. The following article was published by Mark Chataway […]

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WHO estimates 15 million death toll due to COVID-19; The latest health stories from around the world

May 10, 2022 By Lalita Panicker Leave a Comment

The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that nearly 15 million people—about one in every 500 globally—died from causes related to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and 2021 (the first two years of the pandemic), putting the toll from COVID-19 at nearly three times the number that had been officially recorded by countries. India suffered […]

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May 3, 2022 By Lalita Panicker Leave a Comment

Earth’s warming climate is expected to change the habitat of many animal species, which a new modelling study predicts may spell trouble: Species on the move will mingle with many others they have never encountered before, allowing the various animals to exchange viruses. That could spark new disease outbreaks in many wildlife populations—and in humans […]

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