Medical facilities in Mali are very limited, and medicines are in short supply. Malaria and other arthropod-borne diseases are prevalent in Mali, as are a number of infectious diseases such as cholera and tuberculosis. Mali's population also suffers from a high rate of child malnutrition and a low rate of immunization. An estimated 1.9 percent of the adult and children population was afflicted with HIV/AIDS that year, among the lowest rates in Sub-Saharan Africa. An estimated 85–91 percent of Mali's girls and women have had female genital mutilation (2006 and 2001 data).
What are the two main prevalent infectious diseases of Mali? what arthropod born disease has plagued the nation? According to the data from 2001 to 2006 what percent of female genitalia are mutilated? What Sexually transmitted disease afflicts roughly 1.9 percent of the population? Malians suffer from malnutrition and low rates of what type of medical need?