Abuja, Aug 4 (BNA): Africa has recorded a ten-year growth in healthy life expectancy over the past ten years, the World Health Organization (WHO) Africa office said Thursday, outpacing the global average and progress in any other region. on the same level. period, AP reports.
Dr Lindiwe Makubalo, WHO Assistant Regional Director for Africa, said in an online briefing, citing the new WHO report on the state of health in Africa.
The gains outweighed the gains in global life expectancy of healthy life which increased by five years over the same period, Dr. Makubalo said, attributing this to improved basic health services, improved health service coverage, productive health and maternal health, and health services to tackling infectious diseases.
Despite the progress, “we certainly have a lot to do and we seem ready to move together,” the WHO Africa official said, warning that life expectancy in the African region was still below the global average of 64 years.
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