Kampala Women Getting By: Wellbeing in the Time of AIDS

by Sandra Wallman

Book Overview

What do ordinary women in an African city do in the face of "serious enough" infections in themselves and signs of acute illness in their young children? How do they manage? What does it take to get by? How do they maintain the wellbeing of the household in a setting without what would be considered as basic health provision in an American or European city?

Professor Wallman focuses on women in a densely-populated part of Kampala called...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821411594
• ISBN13: 9780821411599
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.4"