With fewer than 10 doctors for every 100,000 individuals in sub-Saharan nations, any loss of hospital staff puts a strain of hospital resources.
In six sub-Saharan nations, the United Nations estimates, the average child born today will not live to 40.
The settlement will affect South Africa and 47 other sub-Saharan nations.
This is likely to mean debt forgiveness for some sub-Saharan nations and other very poor countries.
Columns of smoke from burning buildings and barricades rose above the city of half a million people in this sub-Saharan nation.
At current spending levels, the World Bank estimates, that will take sub-Saharan nations another 50 years.
India has had good relationships with most sub-Saharan African nations for most of its history.
Togo is a tropical, sub-Saharan nation, highly dependent on agriculture, with a climate that provides good growing seasons.
He claims that for example many sub-Saharan nations are or will become stuck in demographic entrapment, instead of having a demographic transition.
The sub-Saharan nations owe an estimated $85 billion.