Pharma partners with African countries on chronic diseases
pharmaphorum.com | February 15, 2017
The Financial Times recently reported that ‘life expectancy in a swath of African countries since 2000 surged by between 20 and 42%’. The average Kenyan could expect to live to be about 52 in 2000 but, by 2014, this had risen to almost 62. As threats from infectious disease and malnutrition reduce, Kenyans can expect to live as long as Americans and Europeans. However, those extra years bring an increased risk of chronic diseases.