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Disease Death toll Percentage of population lost Years Location 2 1918 Flu: Influenza A/H1N1: 17–100 million 1–5.4% of global population [4] 1918–1920 Worldwide 2 Plague of Justinian: Bubonic plague 15–100 million 25–60% of European population [5] 541–549 North Africa, Europe, and Western Asia 3 HIV/AIDS pandemic: HIV/AIDS
This list is derived from World Health Statistics 2011, issued under the auspices of the United Nations by the World Health Organization. You can find the latest WHO statistical reports here . The 2017 Annex listing countries by region can be found here .
Diseases and disorders in Africa (1 C) E. ... Pages in category "Health in Africa" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
Lapeyssonnie noticed that the disease occurred in areas receiving 300–1,100 mm of mean annual rainfall, which is the case in sub-Saharan Africa. [1] The intercontinental spread of meningitis has also been traced to South Asia , brought by those making the Hajj , a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia , in 1987, leading to epidemics in Nepal , Saudi ...
Chromoblastomycosis and other deep mycoses, scabies and other ectoparasites, and snakebite envenomation were added to the WHO list in 2017. [12] These diseases are common in 149 countries, affecting more than 1.4 billion people (including more than 500 million children) [13] and costing developing economies billions of dollars every year. [14]
Rwanda, Senegal, and South Africa were identified as countries where mRNA vaccines might be produced. Africa CDC aims to have 60% of vaccines used in Africa be produced in Africa by 2040, as opposed to less than 1% in 2021. [13] An African Epidemics Fund was agreed to in a February 2022 meeting.
This is a list of countries by cancer frequency, as measured by the number of new cancer cases per 100,000 population among countries, based on the 2018 GLOBOCAN statistics and including all cancer types (some earlier statistics excluded non-melanoma skin cancer).