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Uganda Fact Sheet
Agriculture is the most important sector of the economy, employing over 80% of the work force.2 Due to high birth rates and excess mortality as a result of AIDS, half the population are made up of children aged 0-15.3 By 1993 about 15% of the adult population was living with HIV.4 By 2001, an estimated cumulative total of 2.2 million people had been infected with HIV and about 800,000 Ugandans had died since the onset.5 Interviews with Ugandan health officials revealed that the impressive decline in overall HIV/AIDS prevalence rates in Uganda is levelling off, and in some areas the number of people living with HIV/AIDS may even once again be on the increase.6 Sex work is mainly driven by poverty and many sex workers are HIV-positive, it is thought the prevalence is more than 50%.7 The majority of children involved in commercial sex are between 8-18 years old and in the sample size study of 143 respondents along the 5 truck stop over towns, 97% of children most hit were female and boys accounting for 3%.8 According to women’s rights activists, in many Ugandan communities, wife battery that does not result in serious injury is tolerated and is considered a normal part of marriage.9 Roughly 500 women die of childbirth-related complications for every 100,000 live births, according to the 2000/01 Demographic and Health Survey.10 |
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Mt Everest Trek 2008
Between 29 September and 18 October 2008, GVN is offering a hike to fundraise for the support of 13 children living in the Brighter Future Children's Home in Nepal. > Read More
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