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New Vision (Kampala) - October 27, 2006
Felix Osike and Norman Miwambo, Kampala
Uganda's population of 28.2 million people is expected reach 120m by 2050, according to experts.
During the debate held on October 19, Lord Dick Taverne, who sponsored the motion, asked what steps the British Government was taking to contribute to the stabilisation of Africa's population growth.
Taverne said although AIDS in Africa was now top of the agenda, stabilisation of population growth was more important.
"In Uganda, where AIDS is a moderately severe epidemic, the population is expected to grow from 30 million to over 60 million by 2025 and to 120 million by the middle of this century. There is no official concern about population growth in Uganda and yet its impact on poverty is likely to be immense," he said.
Taverne cited Ghana, where more women are likely to die from unsafe abortions than from AIDS, yet funds are being diverted from family planning to fight AIDS.
He said in Niger, there were more meetings about sex among the elderly than on population growth and blamed family planning failure on religious influence.
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