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  • Title: Poverty creates the greatest risk for women in Uganda. Special report: women and HIV.
    Author: Oywa R.
    Journal: AIDS Anal Afr; 1995 Aug; 5(4):11. PubMed ID: 12289849.
    Abstract:
    Ugandan women are mothers and workers, and have important roles in the community. They often transfer part of their burden to their female children. All resources (land, labor, time) are controlled by men. Women are still properties to be inherited with the rest of their deceased husbands' estates. If a woman wants to stay in her husband's house, even if she is infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) she has to care for her in-laws. Males make the decisions, and women, married or not, have no control over sexual relations, including safety. The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)/HIV epidemic has created thousands of orphans, widows, and destitute elderly. Many of the orphans, who are between 6 and 14 years of age, are running households. Many leave school because they cannot afford high school fees. Girls are affected more; 65% of girls and 16% of boys in Gulu district leave. Poorly educated, many girls and women turn to prostitution. Young girls (camp followers) follow rebel soldiers in northern Uganda from camp to camp; some are attached to particular men. An estimated 1.5 million Ugandans out of a total population of 17 million, are infected with HIV. The majority are between 15 and 45 years of age, the most productive age group. In rural Uganda, farming is labor-intensive; one death in a household can mean normal farming activities will not be completed.
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