Editing Maldives (section)

===Health===
{{main|Health in the Maldives}}
The Human Rights Measurement Initiative reports that Maldives is meeting 5.1 out of 10 of the expected fulfillment for the right to health considering its income level.<ref name="Hrm">{{Cite web |title=Maldives |url=https://rightstracker.org/country/MDV |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519180326/https://rightstracker.org/country/MDV |archive-date=19 May 2024 |access-date=19 May 2024 |website=Human Rights Measurement Initiative }}</ref> Specifically for children's health rights, Maldives attains 98.0% of the anticipated level based on its current income.<ref name="Hrm"/> Regarding adult health rights, the country achieves 99.7% of the expected fulfillment considering its income level. However, in terms of reproductive health rights, Maldives falls into the "very bad" category, as it fulfills only 18.2% of the expected achievement based on its available resources.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Maldives - HRMI Rights Tracker |url=https://rightstracker.org/ |access-date=2022-03-25 |website=rightstracker.org |language=en |archive-date=19 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519142734/https://rightstracker.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Life expectancy at birth]] in Maldives was 77 years in 2011.<ref>{{cite news |date=2018 |title=Maldives |url=http://www.commonwealthhealth.org/asia/maldives/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120140446/http://www.commonwealthhealth.org/asia/maldives/ |archive-date=20 November 2018 |accessdate=20 November 2018 |publisher=Commonwealth Health online}}</ref> Infant mortality fell from 34 per 1,000 in 1990 to 15 in 2004. There is an increasing disparity between health in the capital and on the other islands. There is also a problem of [[malnutrition]]. Imported food is expensive.<ref>{{cite news |date=2010 |title=At a Glance: Health and Nutrition in the Maldives |url=https://www.unicef.org/maldives/media_3334.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120140006/https://www.unicef.org/maldives/media_3334.htm |archive-date=20 November 2018 |accessdate=20 November 2018 |work=[[UNICEF]]}}</ref>

On 24 May 2021, the Maldives had the world's fastest-growing [[COVID-19 pandemic|COVID-19 outbreak]], with the highest number of infections per million people over the prior 7 and 14 days, according to data compiled by [[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bhuckory |first=Kamlesh |date=24 May 2021 |title=With Highest Covid Rate, Maldives Imposes 16-Hour Curfew |url=https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/maldives-tightens-restrictions-as-virus-cases-deaths-climb |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210524215208/https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/maldives-tightens-restrictions-as-virus-cases-deaths-climb |archive-date=24 May 2021 |access-date=24 May 2021 |website=BloombergQuint}}</ref> Doctors warned that increasing demand for COVID-19 care could hinder their ability to handle other health emergencies in the Maldives.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rasheed |first=Aishath Hanaan Hussain |date=24 May 2021 |title=Maldives reports 61st Covid-19 death in ongoing month of May |url=https://raajje.mv/100460 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210524215216/https://raajje.mv/100460 |archive-date=24 May 2021 |access-date=19 May 2024 |work=[[Raajje TV]]}}</ref> The reason for the outbreak was the [[SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant|Delta variant]].<!-- it became dominant almost worldwide within some weeks-->