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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 a basic health provision in an American or European city? Professor Wallman focuses on women in a densely-populated part of Kampala called Kamwokya. With the help of a team of Ugandans and non-Ugandans a vivid picture emerges, enhanced by colour photographs, sketches and maps. Women are largely responsible for the management of illness in all member of the family. Young children are at particular risk and the women have to take the first crucial decisions about treatment. Formal health resources are scarce and so they most often resort to an extraordinary range of treatments provided in the informal economy. A holistic picture of all the options that local people recognize is drawn, and an enriched understanding of problems and opportunities for health care in tropical cities emerges. Multidisciplinary work on sexually transmitted disease is rare, even in this time of AIDS, and the book effectively maps the social contexts of its perception and management. Moreover, it focuses on women as ordinary citizens, selected by residence and not by reference to known medical conditions or high risk behaviour. It is important too that the field strategies have encouraged local informants to become active participants in the definition of local problems and their solutions.

Public health --- Women's health services --- Health behavior --- AIDS (Disease) --- Sexually transmitted diseases --- Health services for women --- Women --- Medical care --- Sexual diseases --- Sexually transmissible infections --- Sexually transmitted infections --- STDs (Diseases) --- STIs (Sexually transmitted infections) --- VD (Disease) --- Venereal diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Sexual health --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Behavior, Health --- Health habits --- Diseases --- Habit --- Health attitudes --- Human behavior --- Medicine and psychology --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Services for --- Causes and theories of causation --- Public health - Uganda - Kampala. --- Women's health services - Uganda - Kampala. --- Health behavior - Uganda - Kampala. --- AIDS (Disease) - Uganda - Kampala. --- Sexually transmitted diseases - Uganda - Kampala. --- Self-care, Health --- Autothérapie --- Habitudes sanitaires --- Femmes --- Health and hygiene --- Santé et hygiène --- Services de santé