Women; AIDS care and poverty in Uganda

Participant observation and unstructured interviews were conducted with 62 rural women during a period of one year. Family care for AIDS patients has been the result of low budgets for medical services and was from the beginning of the epidemic an extension of women's social responsibility as health care givers. Researchers and policy makers have ignored the personal cost to women of subdizing national poverty. The personal cost to women of subsidizing natonal poverty is examined by focussing on AIDS care within the framework of women's productive work and their general socio-economic status. Results showed that subsistence work results in many minor injuries to the hand skin which increases women's vulnerability to HIV infections as they change and wash patients and clothing during the later stages characterized by prolonged bouts of diarrhoea and vomiting. Women's general low socio-economic conditions preclude their ready access to prophylactives such as gloves; soap; disinfectants and even adequate water. Women are physically; psychologically and compassionately fatigued. Poverty has a direct impact on the health of the patient and the future of the family. It was recommended to form policies to improve the socio-economic conditions of women in general and to provide protection and relief from the heavy burden of AIDS care and the dangers of infection

Geographical variation of the potency of the plant molluscicide phytolacca dodecandra (Endod) to two Species of aquatic snails in Uganda

This study is aimed at assessing the geographical variation of the potency of the African soap berry plant Phytolacca Dodecandra; in Uganda and of Endod (its Ethiopian name); to the schistosomiasis -transmitting snail Biomphalaria sp. and Bulinus sp

Women; AIDS care and poverty in Uganda

Participant observation and unstructured interviews were conducted with 62 rural women during a period of one year. Family care for AIDS patients has been the result of low budgets for medical services and was from the beginning of the epidemic an extension of women's social responsibility as health care givers. Researchers and policy makers have ignored the personal cost to women of subsdizing national poverty. The personal cost to women of subsidizing natonal poverty is examined by focussing on AIDS care within the framework of women's productive work and their general socio-economic status. Results showed that subsistence work results in many minor injuries to the hand skin which increases women's vulnerability to HIV infections as they change and wash patients and clothing during the later stages characterized by prolonged bouts of diarrhoea and vomiting. Women's general low socio-economic conditions precludes their ready access to prophylactives such as gloves; soap; disinfectants and even adequate water. Women are physically; psychologically and compassionately fatigued. Poverty has a direct impact on the health of the patient and the future of the family. It was recommended to form policies to improve the socio-economic conditions of women in general and to provide protection and relief from the heavy burden of AIDS care and the dangers of infection