Healthy life expectancy among Africans living in mainly high and upper middle-income countries on the continent, has increased by almost 10 years, the UN health agency, WHO, said on Thursday.
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, life-expectancy on the continent has increased to 56 years, compared with 46 at the turn of the century. "While still well below the global average of 64, over the same period, global healthy life expectancy increased by only five years," it explained.and wellbeing among populations, said Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.
In particular, the continent has benefited from better access to essential health services - up from 24 per cent in 2000 to 46 per cent in 2019 - along with gains in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health.Considerable progress against infectious diseases has also contributed to longer life expectancy, WHO said, pointing to the rapid scale-up of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria control measures from 2005.
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