Title: HIV infection in rural households, Rakai district, Uganda.

POPLINE Document Number: 127800

Author(s):

Konde-Lule JK
Wawer MJ
Nalugoda F
Gray RH
Menon R

Source citation:

In: The socio-demographic impact of AIDS in Africa. Based on the conference organized by the Committee on AIDS of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, 3-6 February 1997. Papers. Liege, Belgium, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP], 1997. :6 p.

Abstract:

The authors summarize HIV-related prevalence and mortality data from the Rakai District of southwestern Uganda, and provide information upon selected effects of the HIV epidemic upon households. Findings are based upon annual samplings of 1945 households between 1990 and 1992. Typical of rural African communities, 49.5% of the population was under age 15 years. Women aged 15-49 years comprised 21.3% of the cohort, consistent with 1991 National Census data for Rakai. In 1990, the first year of the expanded cohort study, 34.6% of people aged 13 and over in trading centers were infected with HIV, 21.0% in the trading villages, and 11.0% in the rural, agrarian villages. 47.0% of households in trading centers and 20.3% in villages had at least one resident HIV-infected adult. HIV prevalence was higher among heads of households than in the general adult population, with 43% of trading center household heads infected, 27% in trading villages, and 13% in rural villages. It is concluded that for the district overall, an estimated 27% of all deaths would be averted in the absence of HIV infection. However, the increase in annual mortality which has occurred as a result of the HIV epidemic has not reversed population growth. There are an estimated 29,000 orphans in the district. 7.5% of the district's population is therefore comprised of children who have lost one or both parents. Most of these orphans appear to have been absorbed into existing families.

Keywords:

Uganda
Research Report
Rural Population
HIV Infections
AIDS
Households
Head of Household
Epidemics
Excess Mortality
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Prevalence
Developing Countries
Africa, Eastern
Africa, Sub Saharan
Africa
Population Characteristics
Demographic Factors
Population
Viral Diseases
Diseases
Family and Household
Mortality
Population Dynamics
Youth
Age Factors
Measurement
Research Methodology