Uganda

Demographic Data

  • Total Population: 37.78 million
  • Population under 15 years: 48%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 59 years
  • Human Development Index: 163 out of 188
  • World Bank Status: Low income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 7.3%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.9 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 29.5%
  • Early Marriage (% of children married by 18 years): 40%

Sources: World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP HDR 2015, DHS 2011

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Venelin Terziev, Ekaterina Arabska - Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences,

The current study makes analyses of the national strategy for deinstitutionalization of children and concludes on important recommendations concerning national policy development. 

Laura A. Voith, Joan Marie Blakey - Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma,

Employing focus groups and participant-observation, this exploratory study examined areas of personal development, knowledge, and skills of young women who were formally in residential care in the Philippines to determine success factors for young women with traumatic histories.  

UNICEF,

New parliamentary bill will help ensure the protection of unaccompanied refugee minors who enter Italy.

Lalitha Vasudevan & Kristine Rodriguez Kerr - Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy,

A column from Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy reviewing two short films, which feature former foster care youths and their memories of the foster care system.

GHR Foundation,

This video from GHR Foundation discusses how in Zambia severe poverty and deaths from HIV/AIDS have led to child abandonment and a large population of orphans and vulnerable children.  It further states that these challenges faced by the Zambian children include higher levels of poverty.  There are also the combined effects of HIV/AIDS and poverty, which have made most of these households’ capacity very weak and compromises their ability to look after these children.

Brianne H. Kothari, Bowen McBeath, Lew Bank, Paul Sorenson, Jeff Waid, Sara Jade Webb - Research on Social Work Practice,

This article introduces a youth-reported measure (Essential Youth Experiences [EYE]) developed to assess the experiences of foster youth in their home environment and their critical relationships across a number of service systems.

Han Meng - Sixth Tone,

A Fulbright scholar compares adoption experiences in China with those in America.

BBC News,

Per this article from the BBC, Syrian refugee children have been making clothes for British shoppers. 

France24 English,

A closer look at tends to be one of the more contentious issues surrounding the Jungle migrant camp in Calais, child migrants.

Euronews,

Over the past week, Britain has taken in over 1300 children that were stranded in the "Jungle."