Editing Uganda (section)

===Poverty===
{{main|Poverty in Uganda}}
{{Update section|date=July 2024}}
[[File:Kif20180421 114559.jpg|thumb|One of the schools located at the Nile River]]
Uganda is one of the poorest nations in the world. In 2012, 37.8 percent of the population lived on less than $1.25 a day.<ref>{{cite web | title=Poverty headcount ratio at $1.25 a day (PPP) (% of population) | publisher=World Bank | url=http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.DDAY | access-date=26 August 2015 | archive-date=25 April 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100425022706/http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.DDAY | url-status=live }}</ref>  Despite making enormous progress in reducing the countrywide poverty incidence from 56 percent of the population in 1992 to 24.5 percent in 2009, poverty remains deep-rooted in the country's rural areas, which are home to 84 percent of Ugandans.<ref>{{cite web | title=Enabling Poor People to Overcome Poverty in Uganda | publisher=International Fund for Agricultural Development | url=http://www.ifad.org/operations/projects/regions/Pf/factsheets/uganda.pdf | access-date=26 August 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924033202/http://www.ifad.org/operations/projects/regions/Pf/factsheets/uganda.pdf | archive-date=24 September 2015 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

People in rural areas of Uganda depend on farming as the main source of income and 90 per cent of all rural women work in the agricultural sector.<ref>{{cite web | title=IFAD Gender Strengthening Programme | publisher=International Fund for Agricultural Development | url=http://www.ifad.org/pub/gender/genpfe.pdf | access-date=10 February 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111203030108/http://www.ifad.org/pub/gender/genpfe.pdf | archive-date=3 December 2011 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> In addition to agricultural work, rural women are responsible for the caretaking of their families. The average Ugandan woman spends 9 hours a day on domestic tasks, such as preparing food and clothing, fetching water and firewood, and caring for the elderly, the sick as well as orphans. Women on average work longer hours than men, between 12 and 18 hours per day, with a mean of 15 hours, as compared to men, who work between 8 and 10 hours a day, although urban men and women work very similar hours. 26% of households in 2005 were headed by women only (FHH), up from previous years as a result of death of men from AIDS. There were most FHHs in the top quintile, by income, (31%). Male only headed households in poverty were also increased to a similar level as FHH, though little research had been done.<ref>{{cite web | title=From Periphery to Center: A Strategic Country Gender Assessment | publisher=World Bank | url=http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTAFRREGTOPGENDER/Resources/ugandaSCGA.pdf | access-date=10 February 2012 | archive-date=3 September 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120903223303/http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTAFRREGTOPGENDER/Resources/ugandaSCGA.pdf | url-status=dead}}</ref>

To supplement their income, rural women may engage in small-scale entrepreneurial activities such as rearing and selling local breeds of animals. Nonetheless, because of their heavy workload, they have little time for these income-generating activities. The poor cannot support their children at school and in most cases, girls drop out of school to help out in domestic work or to get married. Other girls engage in sex work. As a result, young women tend to have older and more sexually experienced partners and this puts women at a disproportionate risk of getting affected by HIV, accounting for about 5.7 per cent of all adults living with HIV in Uganda.<ref>{{cite web | title=AVERTing HIV and AIDS | publisher=AVERT | url=http://www.avert.org/aids-uganda.htm#contentTable2 | access-date=10 February 2012 | archive-date=4 February 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204054458/http://www.avert.org/aids-uganda.htm#contentTable2 | url-status=live }}</ref>

Maternal health in rural Uganda lags behind national policy targets and the [[Millennium Development Goals]], with geographical inaccessibility, lack of transport and financial burdens identified as key demand-side constraints to accessing maternal health services;<ref>{{cite journal | last=Ekirapa-Kiracho | first=E. | title=Increasing Access To Institutional Deliveries Using Demand And Supply Side Incentives: Early Results From A Quasi-Experimental Study | journal=BMC International Health and Human Rights | year=2011 | volume=11 | issue=Suppl 1 | pages=S11 | url=http://www.futurehealthsystems.org/publications/increasing-access-to-institutional-deliveries-using-demand-a.html | access-date=26 May 2012 | doi=10.1186/1472-698x-11-s1-s11 | pmc=3059470 | pmid=21410998 | archive-date=14 November 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114105711/http://www.futurehealthsystems.org/publications/increasing-access-to-institutional-deliveries-using-demand-a.html | url-status=live | doi-access=free }}</ref> as such, interventions like intermediate transport mechanisms have been adopted as a means to improve women's access to maternal health care services in rural regions of the country.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Peters | first=David | title=Exploring New Health Markets: Experiences From Informal Providers Of Transport For Maternal Health Services In Eastern Uganda | journal=BMC International Health and Human Rights | year=2011 | volume=11 | issue=Suppl 1 | pages=S10 | url=http://www.futurehealthsystems.org/publications/exploring-new-health-markets-experiences-from-informal-provi.html | access-date=26 May 2012 | doi=10.1186/1472-698x-11-s1-s10 | pmid=21410997 | display-authors=etal | pmc=3059469 | archive-date=14 November 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114105548/http://www.futurehealthsystems.org/publications/exploring-new-health-markets-experiences-from-informal-provi.html | url-status=live | doi-access=free }}</ref>

Gender inequality is the main hindrance to reducing women's poverty. Women are subjected to an overall lower social status than men. Many women believe this reduces their power to act independently, participate in community life, become educated and escape reliance upon abusive men.<ref>{{cite web | title=Gender Equity Issues in Uganda | publisher=Foundation for Sustainable Development | url=http://www.fsdinternational.org/country/uganda/weissues | access-date=10 February 2012 | archive-date=4 June 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604021704/http://www.fsdinternational.org/country/uganda/weissues | url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Entebbe Airport.JPG|thumb|Entebbe International Airport]]