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Aids
Gastro-enteritis
cholera
Trauma
 
 
 
Artificial limb mine injury

Health Statistics

Life expectancy
Common causes of death
HIV / Aids
Non-communicable disease / Chronic congenital and aquired disabilities
Home life is not comfortable
Life expectancy
One in ten babies dies in the first year of life ...  
15% of children are dead by the age of 16 ...  
1 in 100 births results in the mothers death ...  

Life expectancy is less than 40 years and falling.

Education
Common causes of death
Malaria
  

  

 

HIV / Aids

  • 30 to 40% of adults in Beira are HIV positive.
  • Less than 5% are receiving treatment.
  • Cost of effective first line treatment is only $360 pa.

Kaposi Sarcoma - should respond to treatment!

Non-communicable disease / Chronic congenital and acquired disabilities

  • Little in the way of organised detection and management
  • In the last three years there has been an active attempt to establish a system of care for diabetes
  • New clinic established for non-communicable disease in University in October 2004.


Home life is not comfortable

    Urban Rural
  Electricity 26% 3%
  Piped water 71% 9%
  In-house latrine 68% 31%
  Refrigeration 15% 0.8%

Even those with access to piped water have to boil it for 15 minutes to avoid enteric infections.