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As a developing country, health in Uganda lags behind many other countries but is at par with the countries in the WHO AFRO region. Recent statistics show that life expectancy at birth in Uganda is around 54 years. Child mortality (death before the age of five years) occurs in 90 of every 1000 live births. Total health expenditure as a percentage of GDP was 8% in 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Health expenditure, total (% of GDP) )〕 Uganda was hit very hard by the outbreak of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in East Africa. In the early 1990s, 13% of Ugandan residents had HIV; this had fallen to 4.1% by the end of 2003, the most effective national response to AIDS of any African country (''see AIDS in Africa''). Uganda is home to the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), considered one of the most advanced viral research facilities in East Africa and one of the three countries where the randomised controlled trials for Male circumcision were conducted to inform the WHO decision on the Voluntar medical circumcision as a policy. ==Reproductive Health in Uganda== Reproductive health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes. It implies that people have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so. Implicit in this is the right of men and women to be informed and to have access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of family planning of their choice, as well as other methods of their choice for regulation of fertility, which are not against the law, and the right of access to health-care services that will enable women to go safely through pregnancy and childbirth. Reproductive health care also includes sexual health, the purpose of which is the enhancement of life and personal relations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reproductive health )〕 Within the RH rights are certain human rights already recognized by the Ugandan laws. However, rights of LGBT men and women are not recognized and their activities are outlawed and punishable. The ensuring of RH rights apart from couples and individuals decide freely and responsibly about reproduction with information and means, they should also ensure the ability and in fact attainment of the highest standard of SRH. This may be limited in Uganda because women empowerment (proper gender relations on equitable terms) in the rural areas still lacks significantly and domestic violence hampers this for women. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Health in Uganda」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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