Editing Senegal (section)

=== Health ===
{{Main|Health in Senegal}}
[[File:Life expectancy in Senegal.svg|thumb|Development of life expectancy]]
Life expectancy at birth was estimated to be 66.8 years in 2016 (64.7 years male, 68.7 years female).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aho.afro.who.int/profiles_information/images/e/e3/Senegal-Statistical_Factsheet.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903204256/http://www.aho.afro.who.int/profiles_information/images/e/e3/Senegal-Statistical_Factsheet.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 September 2014|title=Senegal Statistical Factsheet|website=Factsheet of Health Statistics 2018}}</ref> Public expenditure on health was at 2.4 percent of the GDP in 2004, whereas private expenditure was at 3.5 percent.<ref name="hdrstats.undp.org">{{cite web |url=http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/data_sheets/cty_ds_SEN.html |title=Human Development Report 2009&nbsp;– Senegal |publisher=Hdrstats.undp.org |access-date=20 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715090901/http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/data_sheets/cty_ds_SEN.html |archive-date=15 July 2010}}</ref> Health expenditure was at US$72 (PPP) per capita in 2004.<ref name="hdrstats.undp.org"/> The fertility rate ranged 5 to 5.3 between 2005 and 2013, with 4.1 in urban areas and 6.3 in rural areas, as official survey (6.4 in 1986 and 5.7 in 1997) point out.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ansd.sn/publications/rapports_enquetes_etudes/enquetes/EDS-continue_2012-2013.pdf |title=Enquête Démographique et de Santé Continue (EDS-Continue) 2012–2013 |date=July 2013 |language=fr |publisher=Republic of Senegal |access-date=27 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113162733/http://www.ansd.sn/publications/rapports_enquetes_etudes/enquetes/EDS-continue_2012-2013.pdf |archive-date=13 November 2013}}</ref> There were six physicians per 100,000 persons in the early 2000s (decade).<ref name="hdrstats.undp.org"/> [[Infant mortality]] in Senegal was 157 per 1,000 live births in 1950., but since then it has declined five-fold to 32 per 1,000 in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://childmortality.org/data/Senegal |title=Infant mortality rate in Senegal |publisher=UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation |access-date=27 June 2021 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In the past five years infant mortality rates of malaria have dropped. According to a 2013 UNICEF report,<ref name=UNICEF2013p27>[http://www.unicef.org/media/files/FGCM_Lo_res.pdf UNICEF 2013] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405083031/http://www.unicef.org/media/files/FGCM_Lo_res.pdf |date=5 April 2015 }}, p. 27.</ref> 26% of women in Senegal have undergone [[female genital mutilation]].

In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic began in Senegal, which led to the imposition of a curfew in the country.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Africa: SA in lockdown, curfews in the west as continent braces for Covid-19 wave|url=https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20200324-lockdown-curfew-restrictions-africa-coronavirus-covid-19|publisher=Radio France Internationale|date=24 March 2020|access-date=23 November 2021|archive-date=23 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123195213/https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20200324-lockdown-curfew-restrictions-africa-coronavirus-covid-19|url-status=live}}</ref>

In July 2021, Senegal experienced a significant increase in cases of coronavirus disease.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Senegal seeing significant rise in Delta variant cases|url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/senegal-seeing-significant-rise-in-delta-variant-cases/2306111|website=ANADOLU AGENCY|access-date=23 November 2021|archive-date=23 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123195507/https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/senegal-seeing-significant-rise-in-delta-variant-cases/2306111|url-status=live}}</ref>

In June 2021, Senegal's Agency for Universal Health launched sunucmu.com (SunuCMU), a website that the agency hopes will streamline health care in the country. The website is a part of the Minister of State Mohammad Abdallah Dionne's plan for digitalization. He aims to make Senegal's health care system effective and sustainable. Using SunuCMU, Senegal hopes to achieve 75 percent coverage within two years of the launch.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-06-28|title=A New Platform to Improve Health Care in Senegal|url=https://www.borgenmagazine.com/health-care-in-senegal/|access-date=2021-07-06|website=BORGEN|language=en-US}}</ref>