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Africa has a high rate of disease due to poor sanitation, lack of clean water, few doctors and medical facilities, and lack of medicine. Some of the leading diseases include malaria, which kills over 1 million children per year; yellow fever; sleeping sickness; river blindness; guinea worm; leprosy; tuberculosis; and AIDS, which accounts for 70% of worldwide cases and 80% of deaths. Ebola is also present but not epidemic.

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