'Unprecedented crisis' in Africa healthcare: report

African countries are almost entirely dependent on foreign aid in terms of health care, but the financing of vital medicines and vaccines is currently unsecured, which has serious consequences, warns the African Union.

'Unprecedented crisis' in Africa healthcare: report

Africa's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that the continent faces "an unprecedented financing crisis" that could lead to between two to four million additional deaths annually.

According to a recent report, an analysis suggests that lagging developments could bring epidemics and debt increases for some countries on the black continent.

The deepening crisis could cause up to four million more deaths per year than before.

‘Unprecedented crisis’ in Africa healthcare: report

Africa's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that the continent faces "an unprecedented financing crisis" that could lead to between two to four million additional deaths annually. Members of the African Union pledged in 2001 to allocate at least 15 percent of national budgets to health, but only three countries

Freeze in International Funding Could Significantly Reverse Progress in HIV Treatment

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