The impact of AIDS mortality on children's education in Kampala (Uganda)
Müller, O.; Abbas, N.
Aids Care 2(1): 77-80
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0954-0121 PMID: 2083265 DOI: 10.1080/09540129008257716Document Number: 342821
In early 1989 a demographic survey of 1133 households in the Kampala area showed that 20% of the 891 households with children could not send children to school because of lack of money for school fees. The overall mortality rate was 4.3%. 182 (16%) households reported >=1 child which had lost at least 1 parent. The fact that about 12% of all orphans had lost 1 or both of their parents owing to a long disease with fever and weight loss implies that AIDS may have had some impact on mortality rates (but its precise contribution is unknown), in addition to that of civil war. The authors point out that the growing system of hospital-based AIDS outpatient clinics associated with mobile home-care units could provide an acceptable network to identify and support children orphaned by AIDS.Hilary Richardson.