UACE S101 General Paper section B: Logic Quiz 18
Study the table showing the estimates and magnitude of HIV and AIDS by age and gender in Uganda (1993 and 1998) and answer the following questions.
| Estimated magnitude of HIV/AIDS in Uganda | |||
| Age/Gender | 1993 | 1998 | |
| 0 – 14 year (both sexes) | 153,000 | 280,780 | |
| 15 – 19 years (both sexes) | 137,480 | 168,590 | |
| 20 – 49 | Female
Male |
62,6780
581,620 |
778,590
721,000 |
| 50 years +(both sexes) | 181,100 | 225,035 | |
Adapted: Uganda national operation plan for HIV/AIDS/STD Prevention, Care and Sport (1994-1998)
Questions
(a) Calculate
(i) Percentage increase for each age group of people living with HIV/AIDS.
(ii) Overall percentage increase in HIV/AIDS infection between 1993 and 1998
(b) (i) Which group has the highest percentage increase in HIV/AIDS
(ii) What is the likely impact of such a rate of infection on the society?
(c) (i) State the gender group with the highest number of HIV/AIDS cases?
(ii) Suggest possible reasons for this occurrence.
(d) Suggest measures that should be taken to reduce the level of HIV/AIDs infection in Uganda
Solution
(a) Calculate
(i) Percentage increase for each age group of people living with HIV/AIDS.
(ii) Overall percentage increase in HIV/AIDS infection between 1993 and 1998
Total cases in 1993 = 153,000 + 137,480 + 626,780 + 581,620 + 181,100 = 1,679,980
Total cases in 1998 = 280,780 + 168590 + 777,590 + 721,000 + 225,035 = 2,171,995
(b) (i) Which group has the highest percentage increase in HIV/AIDS
0 – 4 years (both sexes)
(ii) What is the likely impact of such a rate of infection on the society?
- High medical care costs
- High rate of absenteeism from work to attend to the sick children
- Low enrollment is preprimary school
- Family wrangles and breakdown
- Low family economic growth due to high expenses on medical care and lack hope
(c) (i) State the gender group with the highest number of HIV/AIDS cases?
Female
(ii) Suggest possible reasons for this occurrence.
Girls begin sexual intercourse and marry early due to the following reasons
- They have a lower age of sexual maturation
- They are vulnerable to rape
- High drop out from school due to lack of fees
- Pressure from parents who value bride price
- Moral decadence
- Poverty and congestion that introduce sex knowledge early
- Lack of family guidance
- Loss of parents and thus girls turn to prostitution as a source of living.
- Rural urban migration exposing girls to rapist
- Reckless media that teaches girl how to play sex
- Blood transfusion from infected person
- Sharing sharp instrument with infected persons
- Pornographic materials
(d) Suggest measures that should be taken to reduce the level of HIV/AIDs infection in Uganda
- Abstinence from sex
- Being faithful to one’s partner
- Use of condoms
- Create public awareness against the causes of HIV/AIDS
- Safe blood transfusion
- Restricting sharing of sharp instrument with infected person
- Restricting the distribution of pornographic materials.
- Provide sex education early in life
- Provide guidance and counseling to children
- Tackle the problems of poverty.
- Enforce laws against defilement.
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Dr. Bbosa Science
