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Unless Africa’s leaders prioritize environmental and health issues, and prevent the degradation of health-promoting food and medicinal plants,

people’s health and productivity will continue to suffer, warns a new report released today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
“Africa’s population is growing at the fastest rate in the world and its economy is expanding at a commensurate rate, yet not enough focus has been placed on the role environmental concerns play in ensuring the well-being of this expanding, dynamic continent’s citizens,” said UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.
Environmental risks contribute to 28 per cent of Africa’s diseases, according to the African Environment Outlook-3 (AEO-3). Diarrhoea, respiratory infections and malaria account for 60 per cent of known environmental health impacts in Africa. (...)

The article:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44192&Cr=climate+change&Cr1=#.UTDnv1fQiBV

More about:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/mar/25/un-report-africa-health-policies

The Report:
http://www.unep.org/pdf/aeo3.pdf