![]() ![]() On average, essential health service coverage improved to 46% in 2019, compared with 24% in 2000. ![]() Improvements in the provision of essential health services, gains in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, as well as progress in the fight against infectious diseases-thanks to the rapid scale-up of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria control measures from 2005-helped to extend healthy life expectancy. While still well below the global average of 64, over the same period, global healthy life expectancy increased by only five years. The Tracking Universal Health Coverage in the WHO African Region 2022 report shows that healthy life expectancy-or the number of years an individual is in a good state of health-increased to 56 years in 2019, compared with 46 in 2000. The report also notes that the disruptive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic could threaten these huge gains. This rise is greater than in any other region of the world during the same period. Brazzaville – Healthy life expectancy in the African region has increased on average by 10 years per person between 20, a World Health Organization (WHO) assessment reports. ![]()
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