Accessed online August 2018
Nepal is the world’s third most polluted country. Air pollution shortens average Nepalese life expectancy by 4.1 years, relative to what it would be if the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline of 5 μg/m3 was met.1 The highest concentrations of air pollution are observed in Nepal’s southwes...tern districts, which share their borders with the highly-polluted Indo-Gangetic Plain of India. Here, residents stand to lose nearly 7 years of life expectancy.
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Country profile: Zimbabwe
According to the previous NHSSP 2014 - 2020, the long-term health sector objective is “the provision of adequate, effective and affordable health care for all Gambians.” The overall ob-jective for the previous plan 2014-20 was “to reduce inequalities in health care services and reverse the dow...nward trend in health-related outcome indicators.”
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HIV Country Intelligence - HIV Country Profiles
The country snapshot prepared by UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia and the Pacific and AIDS Data Hub provides information on the HIV epidemic and response in Bangladesh country.