AIDS in Uganda : how has the household coped with the epidemic ?
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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
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