A recent assessment conducted by the UN emphasized the need to restore and construct new health and education facilities. There are approximately 1,000,000 people who are still displaced from the conflict that has tormented the country for several years. This displaced population is living in camps in the Acholi region located in Northern Uganda. These camps are breeding grounds for disease. People are living in close quarters with little to no sanitation and resources are often scarce. These conditions pose a serious threat to those living in the camps. It is absolutely crucial for the Ugandan government and outside organizations such as UNICEF to take urgent actions to reduce morbidity and mortality from communicable infectious diseases such as Influenza and Tuberculosis. In Uganda, Tuberculosis has a prevalence rate of 559 for every 100,000 in comparison to that of the United States which has a rate of 3 Tuberculosis infections for every 100,000.
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