Kampala women getting by : wellbeing in the time of AIDS /

Kampala women getting by : wellbeing in the time of AIDS / Sandra Wallman ; in association with Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo [and others].

What do ordinary women in an African city do in the face of 'serious enough' infections in themselves and signs of acute illness in their young children? How do they manage? What does it take to get by? How do they maintain the wellbeing of the household in a setting without what would be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wallman, Sandra.
Other Authors: Bantebya-Kyomuhendo, Grace.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Kampala : Athens : James Currey ; Fountain Publishers ; Ohio University Press, 1996.
Series:Eastern African studies (London, England)
Subjects:
Public health > Uganda > Kampala.
Women's health services > Uganda > Kampala.
Health behavior > Uganda > Kampala.
AIDS (Disease) > Uganda > Kampala.
Sexually transmitted diseases > Uganda > Kampala.
HIV/AIDS.
STDs.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Kamwokya
  • 3. People in Place / Valdo Pons
  • 4. Community Life I: Observers' views
  • 5. Household Wellbeing: Ethnographic & Women's Survey Responses
  • 6. Treatment Options
  • 7. Home Treatment / Jessica Ogden and Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo
  • 8. Children's Illnesses: Mothers' definition & management of 'serious enough' symptoms / Jessica Jitta
  • 9. Private Disease: Perception & Management of STD / Frank Kaharuza / Others
  • 10. Six Women: Individual women's accounts of treatment seeking / Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo and Jessica Ogden
  • 11. Community Life II: Participants' views (The video project) / Solveig Freudenthal
  • 12. Summary & Conclusions.

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