Top 5 problems/recomndations

Top 5 problems/recomndations

Top 5 problems

1.) High Fertility Rate
    Uganda's high fertility rate is one of the biggest reasons why their life expectancy is so short. Wit the more people there, the less food and other resources they can evenly divide amongst the population for their survival. Some of these resources are medicine for people with diseases, food, safe water, shelter, etc.
      I suggest, that other more developed countries, donate money to build more institutions that give out the use of contraception, education on family planning, a more urbanized work force, and proper education. With a 3.1% rate of natural increase, and an estimated 18 years in which the entire country will double, there simply will not be enough resources and space for everyone person to be able to survive. This will leads to a mass emigration from Uganda into the more developed countries. This will cause their own personal struggles to spread to other countries. They will bring their untreated diseases, lack of work skills, and poor education, into a completely different place in which they will be forced to adapt without the proper knowledge and preparation of their tasks ahead.



2.) Poor Sewage/Sanitation

    This is one of the biggest problems Uganda is facing. Their poor sewage systems lead to many widespread diseases, and the ingestion of unsafe drinking water. With only 34% of people in Uganda with access to safe drinking water, that means the other 66% of the population puts their life at risk every single day. With donations from countries to build sewage systems as well as water filtration devices, not only will they have clean water to drink, but they can also focus their time on other means of survival, rather then spending their entire days just searching for clean water. Clean water will lead to better hygiene, and with better hygiene, disease will rapidly go down.


3.) Lack of institutions/Urbanization
I understand that religious and other cultural beliefs, are some of the reasons why Uganda is only 14% Urbanized. While i respect the fact that they would like to keep their own way of life, but with the severe lacking of institutions in Uganda, they are offered significantly less opportunities for survival, than those of the more developed world. In Uganda, there is only 1 pyhsician per every 21,000 people. With a 6.5% of the population being infected with the HIV/AIDS virus alone, that's almost 2 million people who have probably the worst sickness someone can have, that averages to only a hundred doctors to treat those patients who have that disease alone. Take into account the millions of other people suffering from life threatening diseases, there just are way too few doctors per people. I recommend that we need to build more institutions in Uganda for family planning, contraception use, and the simple treatment of these deadly disease which most of the time an easily be combated by a simple antibiotic. They simply need more hospitals and doctors, and other organizations which can help treat sick people, contain diseases from spreading, and offer sexual protection and education.

      Hospitals are not the only thing they need. Athleticism is a huge part of growing up, and since the over half of the population are under 15, building cheap sports fields, and donating cheap equipment to help the children learn cognitive skills, as well as get proper exercise, it can also help build their self esteem, which can open up new doors to many different opportunities in life.


4.) Poor Education
    The education in Uganda is very bad to put it simply. Only 56% of adults are literate, while 5 % attend high school, and 1 % attend college. What we need is to develop more programs within the states involving peace corps, which can build schools, and have teachers their to further advance the children in to high school or college. The education, as well as the gender equality, needs to drastically improve, so not only more woman have access to an education, but so there can be a higher development of hat education, so that children can learn more skills, and use their knowledge to personally advance the development of their country. This will lead to a higher urbanization, which will decrease fertility rates, and open up a much higher job opportunities which could one day stabilize the economy.

5.) HIV/AIDS

 The HIV Aids pandemic is so serious, that it needs to be stopped, like now, or the good or the human race is in trouble. There is a 6.5% rate of HIV/Aids in Uganda, and is quickly spreading through the limited contraception use, lack of medicine, and poor family planning. Also this mishandling of nature is another major factor. According to Jim Robbins on page one of the Ecology of Disease, states that "Aids and hundreds of other infectious diseases just dont happen, they are a result of what people do to nature." These diseases will spread to other countries once Uganda becomes over populated and forced to immigrate into new countries. This could lead to a worldwide spread of this disease unless contained immediately. I now I've been asking for countless donations but the fact is our country needs them in order for the world to keep itself stabilized. They simply need medication to combat the disease, as well as extensive contraception use to prevent the disease from spreading as well as family planning so one has the knowledge of the disease and how not to contract it.

Children Soliders

Uganda Versus the Modern Day World

Children Soliders

The 18 year old rebellion of the Lord's Resistance Army against the government, has caused over 1.6 million Ugandans to flee over crowded camps. Many dangerous leaders of this resistance, which include Joseph Kony, have been abducting and capturing thousands of children and brainwashing them to comply with their every demand and wish.
     There are over 250,000 children soldiers which...
-some are as young as 8 years old
-are used to fight the government, or other armed conflict against its people
-are forced to kill their families and break strong bonds with their communities      during their recruitment, making it harder for them to return home.

These children are forced into this horrible lifestyle by the means of abduction, or are volunteered by their parents. They use children because they are physically easy to control, and make up most of Uganda's Population, and are very easy to manipulate and control.

Social practices

Social practices

Uganda faces many obstacles and issues in adapting to the everyday modern world. Some of the issues are gender inequality, lack of urbanization/institutionalization, poor sewage and sanitation, high counts of HIV/Aids, government corruption, poor education, high fertility and death rates, and many other flat out scary issues that lead to their very low life expectancy. The people of Uganda live in a society where 86% of their labor force is that of agriculture. Since they are only at 14% urbanization, this leads to less job opportunity/competition. Little job opportunity can lead to high fertility rates, many families in Uganda have larger families because children are not only such an excellent source of labor, they also are able to care for and look after the elderly in their time of need. In many families in Uganda, it is within their culture and religion that they are to have large families, and shun the thought of contraception use, or on receiving education on family planning. This leads to the widespread of sexually transmitted diseases as well as over population.
    Uganda sewage systems and sanitation's are so bad underdeveloped, only 34% of the population of Uganda has access to safe drinking water. While people in the more developed world can afford to take 35-40 minute showers, people in Uganda not only risk, but sometimes fully know they are ingesting water that has contaminates that cause diseases such as Guinea worms. Some of these issues can be solved by simply dropping some pesticides into the water, but is inhibited by the religious and cultural beliefs of the people to not interfere with nature, as well as their ancestors which they strongly believe reside in all aspects of nature. Their religious beliefs, which creates strong bonds amongst families and communities, but it also directs them away from adapting to the modernized world. While their lifestyle is difficult and dangerous, their cultural beliefs despise institutionalizing and the urbanization of their country.
    Gender inequality is also very huge. Most woman are mostly looked to as mothers of the household. And while over 50 % of them are employed, it is mostly agricultural work. Most women are not allowed to attend school, and are always viewed as second tier to men, and even their own sons.

Demographic Analysis of Uganda

The demographics for Uganda are ranked heavily near the bottom of the Global Demographic Divide. With a population already at 28 million people, and with a 3.1 rate of natural increase, they re population will be at about 117 million, which is roughly a 310% increase. Uganda's birth rates are 48 people per 1000, and they re death rates are at 16 people per thousand. They also have a birth rate of 7 children per mother. They have an extremely high infant mortality rate, which is at a depressing 115 babies aged one through 4 who die per every thousand. 50 % of people in Uganda are under the age of 15, and with life expectancy only at 47 years for both men and women, its no surprise that only 4% of their population ever reach the age of 65. A lot of these statistics are due to the fact that Uganda is only 12% urbanized, which means lack of hospitals and other institutions where the sick can receive care. That's really troubling when 6.5% of the population is infected with the AIDS virus. Whats even more troubling, is that Uganda isn't the only country in its region who's demographics are this poor. While Kenya, their neighboring country, numbers are slightly better than Uganda's, on an international scale they're right along at the bottom with Uganda. They have a 40 people per thousand people birth rate, a death rate of 12 people per thousand, fertility rate of 4.9 people per mother, 77 out of 1000 babies under 4 die from their death rates, 42% of the population under the age of 15, compared to 2% of people over the age of 65. Compared to the more developed world, whose statistics are 11 out of a thousand, 10 per thousand, 1.6 births, 3 per one 1000, 17 %, and 16 %, respectively, This region of Eastern Africa, is in a huge state of turmoil. The more developed world life expectancy is 73 years for men, and 80 years for woman, which has a lot to do with the fact that the more developed world is 75% Urbanized, which can offer numerous hospitals and health care, which is a huge factor why only .5% of people are infected with AIDS.