Health in South Africa

Life expectancy in select Southern African countries, 1950–2019. HIV/AIDS has caused a fall in life expectancy.

Health in South Africa touches on various aspects of health including the infectious diseases (such as HIV/AIDS), Nutrition, Mental Health and Maternal care.

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative[1] finds that South Africa is fulfilling 73.4% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to health based on its level of income.[2] When looking at the right to health with respect to children, South Africa achieves 89.1% of what is expected based on its current income.[3] In regards to the right to health amongst the adult population, the country achieves only 63.8% of what is expected based on the nation's level of income. [4] South Africa falls into the "very bad" category when evaluating the right to reproductive health because the nation is fulfilling only 67.2% of what the nation is expected to achieve based on the resources (income) it has available.[5]

  1. ^ "Human Rights Measurement Initiative – The first global initiative to track the human rights performance of countries". humanrightsmeasurement.org. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  2. ^ "South Africa - HRMI Rights Tracker". rightstracker.org. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
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