173 / 220
159
Source
: NEMA 2008
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%
• 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
• Ensure robust hygiene and
sanitation programmes at
community and household
levels
7. Ensure environmental
sustainability
• 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
• 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
MDG
Performance
How vulnerability
affects achieving MDGs
Strategies for reducing
vulnerability to support
achieving MDGs