Fertility levels and trends in the face of the AIDS epidemic in Uganda.

District Health Officer Perceptions of PEPFAR’s Influence on the Health System in Uganda, 2005-2011

Background Vertically oriented global health initiatives (GHIs) addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic, including the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), have successfully contributed to reducing HIV/AIDS related morbidity and mortality. However, there is still debate about whether these disease-specific programs have improved or harmed health systems overall, especially with respect...

AIDS Epidemic Modeling With Different Demographic Structures

The most urgent public health problem today is to devise effective strategies to minimize the destruction caused by the AIDS epidemic. Mathematical models based on the underlying transmission mechanisms of the AIDS virus can help the medical/scientific community understand and anticipate its spread in different populations and evaluate the potential effectiveness of different approaches for bri...

ENGLISH: ONLY WORKSHOP ON PROSPECTS FOR FERTILITY DECLINE IN HIGH FERTILITY COUNTRIES Population Division Department of Economic and Social Affairs United Nations Secretariat New York, 9-11 July 2001 PROSPECTS FOR FERTILITY DECLINE IN THE FACE OF HIV/AIDS IN UGANDA*

Has Uganda experienced any stalled fertility transitions? Reflecting on the last four decades (1973–2011)

BACKGROUND Persistent high fertility is associated with mother and child mortality. While most regions in the world have experienced declines in fertility rates, there are conflicting views as to whether Uganda has entered a period of fertility transition. There are limited data available that explicitly detail the fertility trends and patterns in Uganda over the last four decades, from 1973 to...

An epidemic model for the transmission dynamics of HIV/AIDS with different clinical stages

In this paper, a five–dimensional mathematical model is proposed for the transmission dynamics of HIV/AIDS within a population of varying size. In writing the model, we have divided the population under consideration into five sub classes of susceptible, infective, pre-AIDS, AIDS related complex and that of AIDS patients. The model has two non- negative equilibria namely, a disease free and the...