Facts in Q&A format

As of 2021, some 20% of girls and women aged 15 to 49 years have undergone female genital mutilation, according to Unicef data. ...

As of 17 November 2021, the total number of individuals vaccinated in Mpumalanga stood at just over 1 million (1,420,542). ...

The infant mortality rate for 2021 is estimated at 24.1 per 1,000 live births. ...

South Africa experienced both peaks of deaths in the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic within the 2021 Mid-year Population Estimates (MYPE) period between July 2020 and June 2021. This resulted in a significant increase in the crude death rate (CDR) from 8.7 deaths per 1,000 people in ...

The estimated overall HIV prevalence rate is approximately 13.7% among the South African population. The total number of people living with HIV (PLWHIV) is estimated at approximately 8.2 million in 2021. For adults aged 15–49 years, an estimated 19.5% of the population is HIV positive. ...

According to the most recent Kenya Health Workforce Report (2015) there were 357 dentists actively practising in Nairobi based on retention data. Practitioners with valid practising licenses are considered to be lawfully active in the service. This results in a ratio of 1.1 dentists per 10,000 peopl...

No. Legally, no one can be forced or coerced into taking the vaccine. This was affirmed by President Cyril Ramaphosa when he addressed parliament on 3 September 2021: “No one should be forced to be vaccinated. Instead, we need to use the available scientific evidence to encourage — repeat encour...

According to UCT’s Faculty of Health Science, there were 254 patients hospitalised with Covid-19 on 6 September 2021. ...

In 2020, some 12,075 Nigerian women were diagnosed with cervical cancer, and 7,968 died from the disease. ...