United Arab Emirates

Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Disease

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In the UAE, Hiv and Aids, is a “low prevalence” disease and available data (both national and international) confirms that the risk in the UAE remains to date low. However, this does not negate the need for advocacy and awareness campaigns, as well as the potential risk Hiv/Aids poses to a country like the UAE with high influx of expatriate communities from high risk regions and given that the UAE is becoming a tourist destination.

The elimination of malaria and other infectious diseases:

UAE was declared free of malaria in 2002.The following two indicators, related to this Goal have thus shown a zero value:

1. Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria.
2. Proportion of population in malaria-risk areas using effective malaria prevention and treatment measures.

As for tuberculosis, the following two indicators have been selected:

1. Prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis

 Mortality rate due to tuberculosis came down from 0.60 per 100,000 of the population in 1990 to only 0.09 in 2005. This was a result of applying the Program of Combating Tuberculosis.

1. Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under directly observed treatment, short course (DOTS)

The detected cases treated were 81.7% of the total infected cases in 2005.However it was 98.7% in 2004. UAE is has fully achieved goal 6.