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Data from the Zimbabwe National Cancer Registry (ZNCR), which collates cancer data in the country, shows cases have increased over the past decade. In 2009, a total of 3,519 new cancer cases were recorded in Zimbabwe. Cases rose to 6,548 in 2013 and 7,265 in 2016. In 2018, according to a re...

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 ...

In 2019, Nigeria (27%), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (12%), Uganda (5%), Mozambique (4%) and Niger (3%) accounted for about 51% of all malaria cases globally. Nigeria (23%), the Democratic Republic of the Congo(11%), the United Republic of Tanzania (5%), Burkina Faso (4%), Mozambiqu...

19.4% (10.4 million) of children under five years old were stunted in Kenya in 2020. ...

As of February 2020, there were only 67 ICU ventilators and no non-invasive ventilation machines for a population of 30 million people in Ghana. This is equivalent to an estimated ventilator capacity of 0.22 ventilators per 100,000 people in Ghana. Even if operating room ventilators are used as a ba...

There were an estimated 6.1 deaths by suicide for every 100,000 people in Kenya in 2019. ...

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

Nigeria has fewer than 300 psychiatrists for a population of more than 200 million. ...

Zimbabwe’s teenage pregnancy rate is about 22%. ...