Editing Lesotho (section)

===Health===
{{main|Health in Lesotho}}
The country is among the "Low Human Development" countries (rank 160 of 187 on the [[Human Development Index]] as classified by [[United Nations Development Programme|UNDP]]), with 52 years of life expectancy for men and women, estimated in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |title=UNDP Lesotho – Country Profile: Human Development Indicators |url=http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/LSO.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511193855/http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/LSO.html |archive-date=11 May 2013 |access-date=10 March 2012}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2019-07-22 |title=CDC Global Health - Lesotho |url=https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/countries/lesotho/default.htm |access-date=2019-11-22 |website=www.cdc.gov |language=en-us |archive-date=8 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200308071010/https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/countries/lesotho/default.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Life expectancy at birth in Lesotho in 2016 was 51 years for men and 55 for women. Infant mortality is about 8.3%.

As of 2018, Lesotho's adult [[List of countries by HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate|H.I.V./A.I.D.S. prevalence rate]] of 23.6% was the second-highest in the world, after [[Eswatini]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Prevalence of H.I.V., total (% of population ages 15-49) - Lesotho {{!}} Data|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DYN.AIDS.ZS?locations=LS&most_recent_value_desc=true&view=chart|access-date=2020-07-14|website=data.worldbank.org|archive-date=14 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714175356/https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DYN.AIDS.ZS?locations=LS&most_recent_value_desc=true&view=chart|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2021, Lesotho had a 22.8% [[H.I.V.]] prevalence rate among people between 15 and 49 years of age.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-07-21|title=HIV and AIDS in Lesotho|url=https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/sub-saharan-africa/lesotho|access-date=2022-01-19|website=Avert|language=en|archive-date=2 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002003817/https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/sub-saharan-africa/lesotho|url-status=live}}</ref> The country has the highest incidence of [[tuberculosis]] in the world.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Incidence of tuberculosis (per 100,000 people) {{!}} Data|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.TBS.INCD?most_recent_value_desc=true&view=chart|access-date=2020-07-14|website=data.worldbank.org}}</ref>

According to the 2006 census of Lesotho, around 4% of the population is thought to have some sort of disability. There are concerns regarding the reliability of the methodologies used and the real figure is thought to be closer to the global estimate of 15%. According to a survey conducted by the Lesotho National Federation of Organisations of the Disabled in conjunction with SINTEF,<ref>Yusman Kamaleri and Arne H. Eide (eds.) (2011) [http://www.lnfod.org.ls/uploads/1/2/2/5/12251792/report_lesotho_3101111.pdf Living Conditions of People with Disability in Lesotho] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402154124/http://www.lnfod.org.ls/uploads/1/2/2/5/12251792/report_lesotho_3101111.pdf |date=2 April 2015 }}. SINTEF Technology and Society. lnfod.org.ls</ref> people with disability in Lesotho face social and cultural barriers which prevent them from accessing education, health-care and employment on an equal basis with others. On 2 December 2008, Lesotho became the 42nd country in the world to sign the U.N. [[Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities]].

According to [[World Health Organization]] data, Lesotho has had the world's highest rate of suicide per capita since 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.MHSUICIDEASDR?lang=en|title=Suicide rates Data by country|year=2016|publisher=[[World Health Organization]]|access-date=23 September 2018|archive-date=18 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018170407/http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.MHSUICIDEASDR?lang=en|url-status=live}}</ref>