The Uganda Atlas

MDG

Performance

• Opportunistic diseases that are environment related e.g. diarrhea, cholera some times kill HIV patients prematurely • Prevalence of malaria and other major killer diseases have a correlation with poor hygiene and sanitation How vulnerability affects achieving MDGs

• Ensure robust hygiene and sanitation programmes at community and household levels Strategies for reducing vulnerability to support achieving MDGs

6. Combat major diseases

• According to the 2004- 05 Uganda HIV/AIDS Sero Behavioral Survey (UHSBS), 6.4% of adult population in Uganda are infected with HIV • Overall, there has been a declining trend of HIV infection from a peak of 18% in 1992 to the current figure • Malaria accounts for 52% of outpatient department attendance, and 30% of in-patient admissions. The disease is responsible for 9-14% of all in-patient deaths. However, the in-patient deaths for children under-five attributed to the disease are about double at 20-23% • There is an increase in water service coverage nationwide from a little over 20% in 1991 to almost 68% in 2006. Equally, the Uganda Population and Housing Census reports a rise in water service coverage from 26% in 1991 to 68% in 2002 • However, there is wide documentation on persistent degradation of the country’s natural resources, namely: declining soil fertility, deforestation, (particularly outside protected areas), pasture degradation, decreasing fish stocks and water pollution

7. Ensure environmental sustainability

• Current trends in environmental degradation must be reversed in order to sustain the health and productivity of the country’s ecosystems • Stressed ecosystems cannot support economic development sustainably

• Reduce and mitigate climate variability and change. • Ensure effective implementation of the country’s environment policies • Rethinking and strengthening environmental governance • Strengthening the adaptive capacity to climate change

MDG Facts 31%of the Ugandan population lives below US$1.00 per person per day 20.4% of Ugandan children go to bed hungry 84% of Ugandan children are enrolled in primary school The average Ugandan woman spends 9 hours a day on care labor activities such as fetching water, firewood and caring for the sick.

13.7% of children die before their fifth birthday 7.6% of infants die before their first birthday For every 100,000 new mothers, 435 die while giving birth Only 41% of births are attended by skilled personnel 6.4% of the Ugandan population is infected with HIV/AIDS 67% of Ugandan households have access to safe water today

Source : NEMA 2008

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