Table 1: Major infectious diseases in Africa in alphabetical order.
| Disease name | Disease genre | Disease burden (estimated cases/death)* |
| Amebiasis | Parasitic disease | 70,000 deaths |
| Cholera | Bacterial disease | 3-5 million/100,000-120,000 deaths |
| Dengue | Viral disease | 390 million/indetermination |
| Ebola | Viral disease | 15,000 deaths |
| Giardiasis | Parasitic disease | Indetermination |
| Guinea-Worm | Parasitic disease | Indetermination |
| Hepatitis | Viral disease | Hepatitis A: 1.4 million cases Hepatitis B: 240 million cases/780,000 deaths Hepatitis C: 130-150 million cases/350,000 to 500,000 deaths Hepatitis E: 20 million cases/56,600 deaths |
| HIV/AIDS | Viral disease | 35 million cases/1.5 million deaths |
| Hookworm | Parasitic disease | Indetermination |
| Leishmaniasis | Parasitic disease | 1.3 million cases/20,000 to 30,000 deaths |
| Lymphatic Filariasis | Parasitic disease | 120 million cases |
| Malaria | Parasitic disease | 198 million cases/584,000 deaths (2013) |
| Onchocerciasis | Parasitic disease | Indetermination |
| Polio | Viral disease | 416 cases (2013) |
| Schistosomiasis | Parasitic disease | 20,000 to 200,000 deaths |
| Syphilis | Viral disease | Indetermination |
| Trypanosomiasis | Parasitic disease | 6314 cases (2013) |
| Tuberculosis | Bacterial disease | 9 million cases/1.5 million (2013) |
| Typhoid | Bacterial disease | 22 million cases/216,500 deaths (2011) |
| Yellow Fever | Viral disease | 200,000 cases/30,000 deaths |
*The data are cited from WHO website accessed May 23rd, 2017.