Health in Turkmenistan

Major health factors are poor diet, polluted drinking water, and the industrial and agricultural pollutants that are especially concentrated in the northeastern areas near the Amu Darya River and the Aral Sea.

The reported occurrence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been less than 0.1 percent.

All ministers, members of parliament and civil servants were ordered to walk the length of it once a year.

[5] The sale of tobacco products in the country was banned by president Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedow in January 2016.

Atadurd Odmanov, the head of the State Service for Protecting the Security of a Healthy Society, was earlier stripped of the rank of Colonel because of his failure to persuade smokers to quit.