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Widow inheritance and HIV/AIDS in rural Uganda

E D Mabumba MBChB MPH  ¹   P Mugyenyi FRCPI FRCP Edin  ²   V Batwala DDS MPH  ³   E M Mulogo MPH MHSM  ³   J Mirembe MBChB  ⁴   F A Khan MD PhD  ⁵   J Liljestrand MD PhD  ⁵

¹ Kashari Health Sub District, Mbarara District, P.O. Box 1, Mbarara, Uganda;; ² Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC), P.O. Box 10005, Kampala, Uganda;; ³ Department of Community Health, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 1410, Mbarara, Uganda;; Division of Social Medicine and Global Health, Lund university, Lund, Sweden;; ⁵ Division of Social Medicine and Global Health, Lund university, Lund, Sweden

Correspondence to: Dr Vincent Batwala vbatwala{at}yahoo.com

Despite current efforts to combat HIV/AIDS through behavioural change, ingrained socio-cultural practices such as widow inheritance in south-western Uganda has not changed. Low education, unemployment, dowry, widows' socioeconomic demands and the inheritor's greed for the deceased's wealth, influence widow inheritance. Voluntary counselling and testing is needed for the widows and their inheritors; formal dowry should be removed from marriage and widow inheritance stripped of its sexual component.

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