Relationship Between Family Economic Resources, Psychosocial Well-being, and Educational Preferences of AIDS-Orphaned Children in Southern Uganda: Baseline Findings

Global Social Welfare

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 75-86

  Ssewamala, Fred M ^a,b   Nabunya, Proscovia ^b   Ilic, Vilma ^a   Mukasa, Miriam N ^a,c   Ddamulira, Christopher ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS orphans; Bridges to the Future study; Care and support; Economic strengthening; HIV AIDS; Orphaned and vulnerable children; sub Saharan Africa; Suubi Uganda projects; Uganda

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010857106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21968799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40609-015-0027-z     Document Type: Article

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