'This is where we buried our sons': People of advanced old age coping with the impact of the AIDS epidemic in a resource-poor setting in rural Uganda

Ageing and Society

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 115-134

  Seeley, Janet ^a   Wolff, Brent ^b   Kabunga, Elizabeth ^b   Tumwekwase, Grace ^b   Grosskurth, Heiner ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b Uganda Research Unit on AIDS   (Uganda)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Impact of HIV and AIDS; Older people; Oldest old; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ELDERLY POPULATION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LOW INCOME POPULATION; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA;

EID: 57749184301     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: 14691779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X08007605     Document Type: Article

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