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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 considered a basic health provision in an American or European city?
Professor Wallman focuses on women in a densely-populated part of Kampala called Kamwokya. With the help of a team of Ugandans and non-Ugandans a vivid picture emerges, enhanced by colour photographs, sketches and maps.
Women are largely responsible for the management of illness in all member of the family. Young children are at particular risk and the women have to take the first crucial decisions about treatment. Formal health resources are scarce and so they most often resort to an extraordinary range of treatments provided in the informal economy.
A holistic picture of all the options that local people recognize is drawn, and an enriched understanding of problems and opportunities for health care in tropical cities emerges.
Multidisciplinary work on sexually transmitted disease is rare, even in this time of AIDS, and the book effectively maps the social contexts of its perception and management. Moreover, it focuses on women as ordinary citizens, selected by residence and not by reference to known medical conditions or high risk behaviour. It is important too that the field strategies have encouraged local informants to become active participants in the definition of local problems and their solutions.
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Medical care, Health behavior, AIDS (Disease), Sexually transmitted diseases, Public health, Women, Public health -- Uganda -- Kampala, Women -- Medical care -- Uganda -- Kampala, Health behavior -- Uganda -- Kampala, AIDS (Disease) -- Uganda -- Kampala, Sexually transmitted diseases -- Uganda -- Kampala, Kampala (uganda), Aids (disease), africa, Women, africa, Women, health and hygiene, Public health, africa, Women's health servicesShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Kampala Women Getting By: Wellbeing in the Time of AIDS
1996, Ohio University Press
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0821411594 9780821411599
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Kampala Women Getting By: Wellbeing in the Time of AIDS
1996, Ohio University Press
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0821411586 9780821411582
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Kampala women getting by: wellbeing in the time of AIDS
1996, James Currey, Fountain Publishers, Ohio University Press
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0852552424 9780852552421
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-240) and index.
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