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Widow inheritance and HIV/AIDS in rural Uganda

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Author

  • E. D. Mabumba
  • P. Mugyenyi
  • V. Batwala
  • E. M. Mulogo
  • J Mirembe
  • Farhad Khan
  • J Lilijestrand

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.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

229-231

Publication/Series

Tropical Doctor

Volume

37

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Royal Society of Medicine Press

Topic

  • Environmental Health and Occupational Health

Status

Published

Research group

  • Social Medicine and Global Health

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0049-4755