ReviewCurrent opinion in pulmonary medicine2025
Household air pollution and respiratory health in Africa: persistent risk and unchanged health burdens.
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- Global Asthma Disparities: Deciphering the Multifaceted Environmental Exposome Between Eastern and Western Populations.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2026Review
- Co-Occurrence of Malaria, Pneumonia, and Diarrheal Disease Among Households: A Cohort Study in Rural Western Uganda.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2026Article
- Performance of Road-Traffic-Based Exposure Proxies Against Personal PMmedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Proxy-based modeling of indoor air pollution exposure and nonlinear health patterns in biomass-dependent households using machine learning.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Performance of road-traffic-based exposure proxies against personal PMAir quality, atmosphere, & health · 2026Article
- Spirometric Lung Function Patterns Across Body Mass Index Categories in Ghana: A Tertiary Care Perspective.Pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
- Global trends in the burden of tracheal, bronchus, and lung cancer attributable to household air pollution.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
- Global, regional, and national burden and attributable risk factors of chronic respiratory diseases from 1990 to 2021 and projections to 2030.Internal and emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Common symptoms experienced while cooking with biomass fuel among pregnant women in South Gondar zone.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Impact of Solid Fuel Use on Household Air Pollution and Respiratory Health in Two Low-Income Communities in Mpumalanga, South Africa.Annals of global health · 2025Article
- Impact of climate change and air pollution on childhood respiratory health.Jornal de pediatriaReview
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Abstract
purpose of reviewDespite evidence emerging from the Global Burden of Disease studies that biomass use and household air pollution are declining globally, with important positive health impacts for households in low- and middle-income countries, these trends have not been equally documented in African countries. This review describes the state of household air pollution exposure and its relationship with respiratory disease in Africa. RECENT
findingsAfrican studies on this topic are limited, and generally focus on respiratory infections. Most evidence emerge from models based on the Global Burden of Disease data, and from limited individual epidemiological studies across the continent. More than 80% of the African population is exposed to household air pollution. Women and children continue to bear the substantial burden of exposure. Evidence from limited exposure-response studies strongly points to household air pollution being the major driver of acute and chronic respiratory diseases on the continent. SUMMARY: Respiratory infections, particularly in children, and other chronic respiratory diseases, are strongly attributable to household air pollution. Elimination of such exposures through interventions such as cleaner fuels and preferably, electricity, is critical to improving respiratory health on the continent.
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