Uganda - youthful population
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- Uganda - youthful population
- Background information
- In 2007 ,50% of the population was below the age of 15
- high birth and fertility rates
- on average women have 7 children during their reproductive years
- life expectancy :52
- Implications
- Increased demand for health services
- raising due to high fertility and increased further by AIDS epidemic
- uneven distribution of health services and poor access to facilities
- Increased demand for educational services
- the high birth rate doesn't allow the gov. to reach a universal primary education
- the population of primary school age children is expected to increase be over 50% between 1991 and 2021
- large expenditures will need to paid for : teachers, classrooms and materials
- Family welfare
- early child bearing has consequences
- young mothers lack material resources to support their children
- encourages school drop-outs
- barrier to further education and a successful career
- early child bearing has consequences
- Demand for environmental resources
- degradation of the environment
- Increase use of marginal lands which cat support agricultural sustainability
- depletion of wetlands to expand agricultural lands
- deforestation to gain land use and firewood for fuel
- Labour force and employment
- substantial expansion mainly in agriculture
- few employment opportunities
- unemployment
- crime
- rural-urban migration
- under employment
- labour force is expected to double between 1991 and 2021 to reach 16.8 M
- Urbanisation and housing
- adequate housing and social amenities aren't keeping pace with demand due to the population increase
- overcrowding
- very low numbers have access to electricity and safe drinking water
- growth of slums
- pit latrines are the most common form of a toilet facility
- adequate housing and social amenities aren't keeping pace with demand due to the population increase
- Demand for social security
- no comprehensive social security policy , individual households are responsible
- Increased demand for health services
- Strategies
- Encouraging the use of contraception and family planning
- under 25% of married women use contraception
- gov. has brought free contraceptives e.g. condoms
- reduces birth rate and prevents overpopulation
- since 1991 the birth rate has increased, suggesting that the population manages isn't working
- policies combat AIDS/HIV
- ABC approach
- Abstain from sex until marriage , Be faithful to one partner and use Condoms
- HIV infection rates fell from 15% of all adults in 1991 to 5% in 2001
- this relieves pressure on the health system and frees up money
- ABC approach
- Encouraging the use of contraception and family planning
- Background information
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