First aid: a simple yet radical response to Africa's rising road deaths?
700 people are killed every day on Africa's roads. Compulsory first aid training for new drivers would dramatically cut deaths Share 232 in Share 7 Email Alasan Senghore in Nairobi Guardian Professional , Thursday 16 January 2014 12.03 GMT Jump to comments ( 1 ) First aid training for all is a simple - but ambitious - solution to reducing traffic fatalities on Africa's roads. Photograph: Antonio Zazueta Olmos The number of deaths resulting from road accidents in Africa is on the rise. The continent currently has the worst death rate for road accidents in the world – almost 250% worse than Europe – with over 151 people killed per 10,000 vehicles in Uganda alone . Road accidents are predicted to become the biggest killer of children between the ages of five and 15 in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015 , outstripping malaria and HIV. We can shift this worrying trend and reduce the impact of road traffic acc...





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