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The healthcare sector is confronted by numerous challenges, including what is termed the Quadruple Burden of Disease: infectious diseases, notably HIV and Tuberculosis; maternal and child mortality; non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, cancer and hypertension; and violence, injuries and trauma. Although the country’s HIV treatment programme has improved and from September 2016 all HIV-positive South Africans will have access to antiretroviral drugs regardless of their CD4 count, South Africa still has the highest number of HIV/AIDS cases in the world with 6.19 million people living with the disease. The shortage of healthcare professionals remains one of the most critical challenges facing the healthcare sector. With the doctor to population ratio having declined well below the global average of 15 doctors per 10,000 people, to six doctors per 10,000 people, many stakeholders believe that the shortage of medical professionals in South Africa is a national crisis. READ MORE
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The Security Industry in South Africa
The R50bn-a- year private security industry comprises more than 8,100 companies that employ approximately 450,000 security officers. The sector provides investigative services, including background screening & verification services and a wide range of security services ranging from physical guarding and armed response to vehicle tracking, mounted cable network protection, crowd control and off-site monitoring. Since 1997 the number of private security officers has grown three times more than the number of police officers, with the current ratio of security officers to police officers standing at 2.87:1.
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Beverages Industry in Nigeria
The high levels of humidity and heat in Nigeria, coupled with the poor quality of the country’s tap water, continue to drive demand for processed packaged water. With its predominantly Muslim population, is also a growing market for alcohol-free malt beverages and so-called ‘social’ soft drinks. During the past decade, the alcoholic beverages sector has experienced strong sales growth, as upwardly mobile Nigerian consumers migrate from traditional drinks to mainstream and premium brands.
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The Liquor Industry in South Africa
South Africa remains a nation of beer drinkers with beer representing 77.7% of all alcohol consumed in 2015 in terms of volume, and 54.6% in terms of value. Beer sales of 3.1 billion litres were worth R52.7bn. These figures exclude the home-brewed sorghum beer manufactured by informal beverage producers and sold at informal and often unlicensed taverns and shebeens, which is estimated to account for two-thirds of all sorghum beer consumed.
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The Water Industry
The National Water Resource Strategy revised by the Department of Water and Sanitation in 2013 emphasises that water is a basic right and that all South Africans should have reliable and equitable access to the resource. Although there has been an average improvement of 20% in the provision of basic water supply and access to basic sanitation since 1994, the water system has been operating at near capacity since 2015 and expansion is required to keep abreast of growing demand.
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