AIDS & Economic Collapse in Uganda Introducti

A. A. Mazuri described a tripartite African heritage. The continent has an indigenous heritage, a Semitic heritage, and a western heritage. Mazuri does not necessarily regard the Semitic heritage as external in character because he contends that defining the Middle East home of the Semites as a part of Asia, as opposed to including it as a part of Africa, was an arbitrary European action, which was based upon European imperatives and perspectives, without regard for African considerations. Thus, according to Mazuri, although both Judaism and Islam have influenced the development of African civilization, their influences have been neither as alien nor as destructive to indigenous social, political, and economic structures as have western influences. Western actions in Africa have been both pervasive and destructive in Africa.

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rnmental corruption in Uganda have been weak political leadership, and tribal/ethnic tensions. Under the current leadership of President Yoweri Museveni, both the political and the economic environments are stabilizing in Uganda. Although Mr. Museveni is in effect a dictator, Uganda's economy is experiencing what appears to be a rebirth. Unfortunately, this economic success is occurring within an environment that is simply waiting for the other shoe to drop: after years of revolution and political turmoil, the country is being plunged into the worst AIDS crisis anywhere in the world. AIDS in Uganda Uganda has continued to experience a devastating AIDS epidemic despite governmental and privatesector initiatives to reduce the rate of disease transmission. Testing indicates that approximately 26 percent of the Ugandan population is HIV (human immuno virus) positive. Uganda also has the highest known incidence of AIDS in the world15 cases per 100,000 population. By mid1989, there were 7,573 known cases of AIDS in Uganda. In just oneyear, this number mushroomed to 17,400 cases. The number of AIDS cases in Uganda has been doubling each six months since mid1990. Were this rate of increase to continue, the country's pop
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