Benin's malaria burden is very high; the malaria death rate for children ages 0-4 is 960 per 100,000. Overall about 1.9 percent of Benin's adult population is HIV positive, but it is over 40 percent among high-risk urban populations. The tuberculosis death rate is 32 per 100,000. Benin does use the DOTS treatment program for tuberculosis, and an estimated 77 percent of TB cases in Benin are covered under DOTS.

Sources: United Nations Statistics Division, Mbendi Country Profile, Synergy Project, BBC country profile

Benin has fully implemented DOTS treatment for tuberculosis in all areas.

Source: IRIN; WHO 2004 Report: Global Tuberculosis Control; UNAIDS

Demographic data contained in this section was obtained from the following sources: The Population Reference Bureau’s 2009 World Population Data Sheet was used for total population, life expectancy at birth, infant mortality, fertility, birth rate, death rate, % of married women 15-49 using modern methods of contraception, % of population 15-49 with HIV/AIDS in 2007/2008, and the GNI PPP per capita (2008). Literacy rates were found in the Population Reference Bureau’s publication 2005 Women of Our World. HIV prevalence data for 2001 and 2003 was obtained from the UNAIDS Barcelona 2002 report; HIV prevalence and orphan data for 2005 was obtained from the UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2006. Data on the % women who have discussed AIDS prevention with their husband or partner can be found in ORC Macro and USAID’s Women’s Lives and Experiences: Changes in the Past Ten Years (Research Findings from the Demographic and Health Surveys). Childhood malaria mortality data was accessed in 2003 from the United Nations Statistics Divisions’ Millennium Indicators. Tuberculosis data was obtained from the United Nations Statistics Division’s Millennium Indicators: MDGInfo 2006. In some cases information was unavailable.

There are over 600 private health centers as well. Altogether Benin has about 7,000 hospital beds, divided rather evenly between the public sector and the private. Access to health care is greater in the more populated southern coastal region of the country.

In 1995 Benin had 5.5 physicians and 20.4 nurses per 100,000 population.

Sources: WHO, USAID

Regional Center for Entomological Researches of Cotonou (CREC)

• A 1993-1996 study of ITNs (20,000 participants).
• Study of malaria morbidity in southern Benin.
• Study of A. gambiae vector population in Benin and Togo.
• Surveillance of P. falciparum drug resistance.

Professor Martin Akogbeto is the CREC director.

Source: AMVTN

Reseau Beninois de Recherche et de Communication sur le SIDA

Universite Nationale du Benin , Faculte des Sciences de Sante