Aids In English

See also [Uganda]

Uganda is a country in which the battle against AIDS and the spread of HIV is a success, but one cannot let down one's guard: today the situation in the country is the following as estimated by UNAIDS at the end of '99:

The procentage of spread of the infection between adults is 8,3%

• 420.000 women are infected with the HIV virus
• 350.000 men are infected with the HIV virus
• 53.000 children are infected with the HIV virus

In 1982 the Ugandan doctors ascertained the main instances of AIDS in Uganda: they occur on the banks of Lake Victoria in the south of the country, in the same district as Nkoni: Rakai.

4 yars later, in 1986, the Health Minister, guided by Museveni's strong leadership, started an important Control Programme for AIDS: Uganda initiated her struggle against the plague of the century. In 1992 the infection arrived, in the hardest hit areas, at 30%: almost one person in three were infected.

The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) estimated in June 2001 that counting from when the infection first broke out, the terrible consequences have been the following:

• 2.200.000 people have been infected with the HIV virus
• 1.400.000 people have died of ADIS
• 1.700.000 children under the age of 15 have become orphans (their mother of both parents have died of AIDS)

Reading the studies by the same national commision one can discover that:

'995.000 orphans under the age of 15 live in Uganda today'

More resources:

• Uganda AIDS Commission (AUC) [1]
• WHO Epidemiological fact sheets on HIV/AIDS in Uganda [2]
• International study on the impact of HIV/AIDS on the children in Uganda [3]
• CNN interview, May '01, Museni on the AIDS problem [4]

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