Widow inheritance and HIV/AIDS in rural Uganda
Författare
Summary, in English
Despite current efforts to combat HlV/AlDS through behavioural change, ingrained socio-cultural practices such as widow inheritance in south-western Uganda has not changed. Low education, unemployment, dowry, widows' socioeconomic demands and the inheritor's greed for the deceased's wealth, influence widow inheritance. Voluntary counselling and testing is needed for the widows and their inheritors; formal dowry should be removed from marriage and widow inheritance stripped of its sexual component.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2007
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
229-231
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Tropical Doctor
Volym
37
Issue
4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Royal Society of Medicine Press
Ämne
- Environmental Health and Occupational Health
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Social Medicine and Global Health
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0049-4755