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. 2023 Jun 20:151:e114.
doi: 10.1017/S0950268823000997.

Responding to Africa's burden of disease: accelerating progress

Benido Impouma  1 , Akpaka A Kalu  1 , Lindiwe Makubalo  1 , Alex Gasasira  1 , Joseph Cabore  1 , Matshidiso Moeti  1
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Responding to Africa's burden of disease: accelerating progress

Benido Impouma et al. Epidemiol Infect. .

Abstract

Although Africa is home to about 14% of the global population (1.14 billion people), it is growing three times faster than the global average [1]. The continent carries a high burden of disease, but there has been real progress in eradication, elimination, and control since 2015. Examples are the eradication of wild polio in 2020 [2] and the eradication or elimination of neglected tropical diseases, such as dracunculiasis in Kenya in 2018; Human African trypanosomiasis in Togo in 2022; and trachoma in Togo, Gambia, Ghana, and Malawi in 2022 [3]. New HIV infections reduced by 44% in 2021 compared to 2010 [4], and in 2021 the African region passed the 2020 milestone of the End TB Strategy, with a 22% reduction in new infections compared with 2015 [5].

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The authors declare none.

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