Safe Blood in Developing Countries - The Lessons from Uganda (EC, 1995, 151 p.): Some facts about Uganda

Safe Blood in Developing Countries - The Lessons from Uganda (EC, 1995, 151 p.)

		(introduction...)
		Quotation
		Foreword by the Uganda Minister of Health
		Foreword by Commissioner Professor Pinheiro
		Some facts about Uganda
		Section One - Introduction and summary
		Section Two - Background: Uganda's history, health, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic
		Section Three - The story of the Uganda blood transfusion service
		Section Four - Evaluation: The view from Kampala
		Section Five - Key issues in blood transfusion: The Uganda experience
		Appendices

Some facts about Uganda

Uganda straddles the Equator, and at about 236,000 square kilometres is about the same size as Great Britain or the state of Oregon, USA. Uganda is bordered by Kenya, Sudan, Zaire, Rwanda and Tanzania. Most of the country is high, at over 1,000 metres in altitude, and almost 25 per cent of the country's surface is water, thanks to several large lakes, the largest being Lake Victoria, Africa's biggest lake, source of the Nile, and shared between Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. The country is mostly very fertile, with agriculture making up around 60 per cent of GDP and coffee, tea and tobacco being main exports. Some figures for Uganda are:

Population	about 17 million
Population growth rate	about 2.8 per cent a year
Fertility rate	7.2 children/woman
Maternal mortality rate	550 per 100,000 births
Life expectancy (1993)	less than 50 years
Malnutrition of under-5s	45 per cent
Population per doctor	24,700
Population per nurse	8,900
Gross National Product (GNP) per head	about $170
Health share of GNP	2 per cent
Education share of GNP	15 per cent
Defence share of GNP	26 per cent
Top 5 causes of morbidity, 1992
- Malaria	19 per cent
- Diarrhoea	9 per cent
- Measles	7 per cent
- Pneumonia	6 per cent
- Anaemia	6 per cent