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MDG Performance How vulnerability Strategies for reducing
affects achieving MDGs vulnerability to support
achieving MDGs
6. Combat major diseases • According to the 2004- • Opportunistic diseases that • Ensure robust hygiene and
05 Uganda HIV/AIDS Sero are environment related e.g. sanitation programmes at
Behavioral Survey (UHSBS), diarrhea, cholera some times community and household
6.4% of adult population in kill HIV patients prematurely levels
Uganda are infected with HIV
• Prevalence of malaria and
• Overall, there has been other major killer diseases
a declining trend of HIV have a correlation with poor
infection from a peak of 18% hygiene and sanitation
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%
7. Ensure environmental • There is an increase in • Current trends in • Reduce and mitigate
sustainability water service coverage environmental degradation climate variability and change.
nationwide from a little over must be reversed in order
20% in 1991 to almost 68% to sustain the health and • Ensure effective
in 2006. Equally, the Uganda productivity of the country’s implementation of the
Population and Housing ecosystems country’s environment policies
Census reports a rise in water
service coverage from 26% in • Stressed ecosystems • Rethinking and
1991 to 68% in 2002 cannot support economic strengthening environmental
development sustainably governance
• However, there is wide
documentation on persistent • Strengthening the adaptive
degradation of the country’s capacity to climate change
natural resources, namely:
declining soil fertility,
deforestation, (particularly
outside protected areas),
pasture degradation,
decreasing fish stocks and
water pollution
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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