{"id":20742,"date":"2019-04-07T13:31:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T13:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=20742"},"modified":"2019-04-07T13:31:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T13:31:30","slug":"africa-worldhealthday-10-quick-facts-about-health-in-the-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/07\/africa-worldhealthday-10-quick-facts-about-health-in-the-continent\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: #WorldHealthDay &#8211; 10 Quick Facts About Health in the Continent"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/emoji\/noto\/svg\/emoji_u1f96a.svg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On 7 April 2019, World Health Day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/campaigns\/world-health-day\/world-health-day-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">focuses on universal health coverage<\/a>. To mark the day, we&#8217;ve compiled some facts about health in Africa that we&#8217;ve come across in our work over the last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Does South Africa spend seven times more on healthcare per person that Nigeria, as a national newspaper in the west African country<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisdaylive.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/15\/nigerias-poor-attitude-to-healthcare-financing\/\" target=\"_blank\"> claimed<\/a>? It is actually slightly less at five times more, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/africacheck.org\/reports\/nigeria-spends-5-times-less-per-person-on-healthcare-than-sa\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to<\/a> the most recent data (2015) available.  Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>On 7 April 2019, World Health Day focuses on universal health coverage. To mark the day, we&#8217;ve compiled some facts about health&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}