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People in Africa live longer. But their health is poor in those extra years

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A Congolese child saluting a MONUSCO peacekeeper. Abel Kavanagh/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

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Nigerian children receiving the polio vaccine in Lagos. EPA

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