Healthcare in Kenya

While looking at the fact sheet for Kenya, I noticed that the life expectancy for males is 51 and for females is 50 years old. These numbers may seem low to us in the US, where the life expectancy is roughly 75 years, however on the fact sheet it seems as though these numbers are slightly higher than the average life expectancy in the whole WHO region. Another interesting thing that I noticed was that the probability of dying for adults was significantly lower in Kenya than the WHO African region for males, but also significantly higher for females. Kenya also has double the percent of HIV caused deaths than the average, however its HIV prevelance among adults is lower than the average. This may say something about their health care system compared to other African countries. The TB prevalence and incidence is also almost double in Kenya compared to the other countries. The strange thing is that Kenya has almost a 20% increased access more than the rest of the WHO African region, which makes me think that there may be another reason for the increased prevelance rate of many of the diseases.