Table 1.

 Populations served by the hospitals/programmes

	Kwale District	Kilimanjaro Region
Population	600 000	1 400 000
Distance (km2) covered	8600	13 309
Population density (/km2)	69.8	105.2
Gross national income* (US$)	360 (Kenya overall)	280 (Tanzania overall)
% population below food poverty line	58†	11‡
% household expenditure used for food	63.5	70
Literacy rate	45.6%§	85‡

*2002, for Kenya and Tanzania as countries (World Bank).

†Ministry of Finance and Planning, Second report on poverty in Kenya 2000;vol 1:p31.

‡Household Budget Survey Tanzania 2001 final report (available at www.tanzania.go.tz/statistics.html).

§Ministry of Finance and Planning, Second report on poverty in Kenya 2000;vol 2:p46 (literacy).