Health care in Africa

Causes of the highest number of deaths

Infectious diseases that cause the most people to die or lose health, for 2021

• lower respiratory tract infections;
• HIV/AIDS;
• tuberculosis;
• diarrhoeal diseases;
• malaria;
• measles.

As of 2018

AIDS

Proportion of adults infected with HIV in the population, data as of 2018

Hygiene

2020: Part of the population defecates on the street

494 млн людей на To the earth defecate on the street. Share of such population by country for 2020

2017: Proportion of the population practicing outdoor defecation outside the toilet

Proportion of the population practicing defecation outside the toilet

Maternity leave

Число недель оплачиваемого maternity leave countries around the world for 2021

Chronicle

2023: Putin: Russia will supply Africa with 10 mobile laboratories to combat infections

Russia will supply mobile laboratories to Africa to effectively combat infections, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the Russia-Africa forum in St. Petersburg on July 28, 2023.

Russia will supply ten mobile laboratories and train hundreds of specialists as part of a joint infection control program with Africa, the head of state said. July 28, 2023.

Russian President Vladimir Putin

According to the president, in recent months, the Russian Federation has transferred 2 Russian mobile laboratories to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition, the equipment of the Russian-Guinean Center for the Study of Infections in the city of Kindia, where more than 20 diagnostic drugs have been developed, Putin said.

He stressed that Russia helps African countries in the development of health care. The countries of this continent have been allocated $1.2 billion for the implementation of a program of assistance in the fight against infections. It is designed until 2026.

Earlier it was reported that Russian pharmaceutical companies are ready not only to export their medicines to African countries, but also to create production facilities. One of these industries has already been launched in Algeria, where the production of Russian insulin has begun. Irina Filatova, a member of the State Duma Committee on the Protection of Competition, told the International Parliamentary Conference "Russia - Africa," noted that such a technological transfer and development of production in partner countries will contribute to the creation of new jobs and an increase in tax revenues to these countries. Cooperation in the field of pharmaceuticals will help countries in need and achieve pharmaceutical independence.

A number of countries on the African continent are acquiring Russian innovative solutions in the field of VR and robotics for the pharmaceutical industry and medicine. The domestic developer of such products, Targetta, has established their export to Tanzania, Morocco, Iran and South Africa.^[1]

2020: Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave

Data as of September 1, 2020

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