Know details on three diseases
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Give the names of the most common diseases in Africa. (5)
Malaria, yellow fever, sleeping sickness, river blindness, guinea worm, leprosy, TB, AIDS, Ebola
What is the average life expectancy in Africa?
51
Reasons diseases spread? (3) details
Susceptible due to poor diet, lack of knowledge of disease prevention, poor sanitation, lack of clean water, very few doctors, lack of hospitals and clinics,lack of medicine
What role does lack of knowledge play in disease prevention?
They would know how to prevent the diseases, in the case of AIDS, they don’t know any better