[Stoves] Ghana news: Second Lady named GACC ambassador; HAP deaths "alarming"

[Nikhil Desai]

On the one hand, we have GBD (2016) saying deaths attributable to HAP from
solid fuels declined from 3.3 m in 2006 to 2.6 m in 2016 and DALYs
attributable to HAP over these ten years declined from 109 m to 77 m.

And here we see a claim not about attribution but causality -

"According to the World Health Organization, household air pollution from
cooking kills over 4 million people every year and sickens millions more."


I would like WHO to give us HAP deaths by level of exposure, cause of
death, and age/sex deciles by country for every 10-year interval since
1980.

Coming to Ghana, from WHO data I have, in 2008 some 37% of Ghana households
reported using charcoal, 46% wood, and 11% LPG. WHO has no data on fuel use
shares since.

What about deaths? World Bank says Ghana population is some 28 million, and
crude death rate 8 per 1,000 which means a total of some 1.76 million
deaths per year. So the alleged 17,000 deaths attributable to HAP are less
than 1%.

Ghana Statistical Service reports
<http://www.statsghana.gov.gh/docfiles/publications/CRVS%20Assessment%20Report%20Final_%2018.04.17.pdf>
that its Civil Registration system is do deficient,

"Each year, about one third of births go unregistered, adding to the
growing number of its population who live and die without leaving a trace
of their existence and/or their characteristics on any legal document or
statistical record. Also, only one in five deaths each year gets recorded.
"

No worries. We have WHO to kill by assumptions and Ajay Pillarisetti to
save by assumptions.

Nikhil
Samira Bawumia named ambassador of Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
<https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Samira-Bawumia-named-ambassador-of-Global-Alliance-for-Clean-Cookstoves-589941>
Ghanaweb
12 October 2017
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