Nigeria Has More Children With HIV And Pneumonia Than Any Country, Says World Health Organization (WHO) The World Health Organization ...
Nigeria Has More Children With HIV And Pneumonia Than Any Country, Says World Health Organization (WHO)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that Nigeria is the country with the highest number of children with HIV and tuberculosis.
The representative of WHO in Nigeria, Dr. Walter Kazadi Mulombo stated this at the 6th annual conference organized by the Association of Nigerian Health Journalists (ANHEJ) in collaboration with WHO in Nasarawa State.
He said besides that, Nigeria has 50 percent of the patients who do not get enough care, in tropical countries in Africa
The representative of the President of the Organization, Ahmed Khedr, said that although the incidence of malaria has decreased from 42 to 23 percent, the country continues to have a significant share in the spread of diseases in the world with 27 percent, and 24 percent of deaths.
"In terms of the number of deaths of non-communicable diseases, it is 29 percent, with 29 percent of people with high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer and cancer, and 22 percent who die in a short time," he said. hear it.
He also said that data shows that both diseases and deaths are more common in the poor, due to the lack of money for treatment, and going to poor-quality hospitals.
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