Republic of Madagascar - part of East Africa. It is the fourth-largest island in the world situated in Indian Ocean. Because of its geographical isolation, It is home to many highly evolved species and majority of them are endemic.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Health Issues

This is an article taken from Nationencyclopedia.com

All medical services in Madagascar are free. Each province has a central hospital and local clinics, dispensaries, and maternity-care centers are supplemented by mobile health units. The main hospitals are the Hospital Befelatnana (1,300 beds) and Fort Dauphin Hospital (80). As of 1999, total health care expenditure was estimated at 2.1% of GDP. As of 1999, there were an estimated 0.1 physicians and 0.9 hospital beds per 1,000 people.

Malaria remains one of the major health problems. The current reorganization of the health service in Madagascar is an opportunity to establish new anti-malaria programs. The strategies of the fight against malaria consist of early care of malaria cases, drug interaction for pregnant women, and eradication of adult insects in the central highlands where malaria is common. The major endemic diseases are malaria, leprosy, and schistosomiasis. Tuberculosis is also prevalent. 

http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Africa/Madagascar-HEALTH.html


The purpose of these graphs and tables is to show the trend throughout the years in Madagascar...

Madagascar Health Profile





http://www.who.int/countries/mdg/en/index.html



AIDS/HIV



http://apps.who.int/globalatlas/predefinedReports/EFS2008/full/EFS2008_MG.pdf

 Tuberculosis


https://extranet.who.int/sree/Reports?op=Replet&name=/WHO_HQ_Reports/G2/
PROD/EXT/TBCountryProfile&ISO2=MG&outtype=html

Malaria




http://www.who.int/malaria/publications/country-profiles/profile_mdg_en.pdf