Ntozi, J. P.; Nakayiwa, S.

AIDS in Uganda: how has the household coped with the epidemic?
1999 - in Caldwell, J.;Orubuloye, I. O. ;Ntozi, J. P., The continuing HIV / AIDS epidemic in Africa: responses and coping strategies, Canberra, Health Transition Centre, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, p. 155-181

Mots clés : Analyse de données; Caractéristiques de la population; Cérémonies traditionnelles; Comportement; Comportement sexuel; Culture; Décès; Dynamique de la population; Effets d'âge; Enfant; Enfants; Etat matrimonial; Facteurs démographiques; Facteurs économiques; Facteurs psychologiques; Facteurs socioéconomiques; Famille et ménage; Infection à VIH; Jeunesse; Maladie virale; Maladies; Mariage; Méthodologie de recherche; Modèles de mariage; Mortalité; Nuptialité; Orphelins; Personne séropositive; Personnes vivant avec le VIH/Sida; Population; procuration des soins à domicile; Rapport de recherche; Remariage; Santé; Services de santé; SIDA; Soin à domicile; veuve
Pays : Afrique; Afrique de l'Est; Afrique de l'Est; Afrique subsaharienne; Ouganda; Pays en développement

Résumé : This paper examines how households are coping with the AIDS epidemic and is based on data from four studies of six districts in Uganda between 1992 and 1995. Patient care was found to be principally given by the parents and other relatives. A considerable proportion of spouses cared for the male AIDS patients. Orphans were mainly cared for by relatives, especially grandmothers. Upon the death of one parent, the surviving parent was the principal caretaker. A number of orphans cared for themselves. People cope with widowhood by either remarrying or migrating. The effects of HIV and AIDS on traditional norms were reduction in widow inheritance, household management by the widows or relatives after the death of the household head, and resorting to shorter funeral ceremonies. In marriage, people coped by changing their behaviour to sexual abstinence, fidelity, separation or dissolution of marriages, decrease in polygyny, delayed marriage, and careful selection of potential marriage partners, including tests for HIV before marriage. (author's)