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Title: | The Impact of AIDS on Some Urban Households in Kenya with Particular Reference to Female Headed Households |
Author: | Magadi, Monica A. |
Year: | 1992 |
Periodical: | African Urban Quarterly (ISSN 0747-6108) |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 3-4 |
Period: | August-November |
Pages: | 285-288 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Kenya East Africa |
Subjects: | female-headed households AIDS Women's Issues Health and Nutrition Health, Nutrition, and Medicine Cultural Roles Family Life Sex Roles Medicine, Nutrition, Public Health AIDS (Disease) urban areas Economic and social development Women heads of households |
Abstract: | Based on data for 546 patients admitted to the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya, in 1990 with HIV complications, and in-depth interviews with 18 women in Nairobi whose husbands had either died from AIDS or were currently ill with the disease, the author describes the socioeconomic, cultural and demographic characteristics of AIDS patients and considers the impact of AIDS on urban households, with particular reference to coping mechanisms in female-headed households. The hospital admission data indicate that AIDS is contracted particularly by those who are in the most economically active age groups. Men are more likely to be affected than women. The disease affects all socioeconomic classes, but there are some indications that poor people are more likely to be affected. In most cases, AIDS-related illness and death has had a serious effect on the financial situation of the household. The dominant preoccupation of the women who were interviewed was the care of their children in the future. Many had made plans to ensure that their children would be cared for by their relatives in the event of their own death. Bibliogr., sum. |