HEALTH CHALLENGES IN AFRICA

Healthcare posses a complex challenges in developing countries interweaving

problems of science, health and development. These challenges associated with the

health have many healthy problems to people in developing countries especially in

Africa and all these have have lead to poor productivity by the people of these

regions since most of the people die and others fall sick and they do not get the

required treatment.

Most of the health challenges that face the people in Africa include the following:

Prevalence of counterfeit drugs: most of the drugs that come in Africa are made in a

way that is the exact imitation of other valuable drugs with the purpose to deceive

people, this brings about the loss of confidence in all health systems.

Econutrition: Most of the activities are conducted to the extent that they bring about

the environmental damages example of these include the; soil erosion and decrease

in biodiversity, these lead to the lowering of food productivity a lack of food that

results into malnutrition and illness that in turn leads to poor labour productivity

.

Maternal and child undernutrition and Obesity: Maternal and child undernutrtion may

entirely be prevented but still cause about 3.5 child deaths and this is the outcome of

lack of information of which nutrient must be given to the mother and the child and

this leads to the stunting, wasting. Tackling undernutrition is only from pregnancy to

two years of age but soon after this damage on health and brain development by

undernutrition is irreversible.

Also obesity has become a big problem to people in Africa since people lack the

information about nutrition and thus suffer from the so called ‘civilized diseases’ one

of them being obesity.

Global economic crisis; Global recession has reduced the foreign investment in and

demand for export from the developing countries and this leads to unstable comodity

prices, lowers the earnings and reduced access to food forcing people to adopt

cheaper and less balanced diets that leads to higher level of malnutririon.