Of the roughly 14,000 Nigerian women diagnosed with cervical cancer every year, just over 8,000 will die.
Source: Dr Chris Ifediora, founder of the Onyebuchi Chris Ifediora Foundation (September 2019)
New data shows more women are being diagnosed, and that there are more deaths
If you sit more than 11 hours a day, there’s a 50% chance you’ll die within the next 3 years.
Source: Facebook page ‘Medical Talk’ (August 2019)
No study has estimated the risk of high sitting time at 50% within the next three years.
Don’t touch soya foods as they’re very bad for breast cancer.
Source: Viral 2016 TV interview with Kenyan senator and cancer survivor Beth Mugo
Soya foods are healthy and could prevent cancer
Four claims on female sexual and reproductive health in Nigeria
Source: Punch newspaper (July 2019)
Three incorrect, one unproven
South Africa is the only country in Africa that releases crime statistics
Source: South African Minister of Police Bheki Cele (12 September 2019)
Various researchers pointed Africa Check to crime statistics released by other African countries.
Malaria kills an average of 300,000 people yearly in Nigeria.
Source: WellaHealth insurance service (August 2019)
WHO data puts Nigeria’s 2017 malaria death toll at 81,640.
Nearly half of all child deaths in Africa stem from hunger
Source: African Child Policy Forum (2019)
The study offered as evidence for this claim did estimate that 45% of all deaths in under-5 children were due to undernutrition. However, a calculation for Africa has not been done.
Be careful before you share a video or picture of xenophobic violence in South Africa. Many of them are from unrelated incidents.
80% of Johannesburg’s inner city is inhabited by foreign nationals
Source: Former police deputy minister Bongani Mkongi
2011 census data and a survey involving the provincial government shows far fewer people living in the inner city were born in another country
The murder of a university student in South Africa has led to national soul searching and debate over violence against women. Africa Check summarises the available research on the issue.