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UgandaAsset ownership and health and mental health functioning among AIDS-orphaned adolescents: Findings from a randomized clinical trial in rural Uganda
This study evaluated an economic empowerment intervention designed to promote life options, health and mental health functioning among AIDS-orphaned adolescents…
The Effects of parental loss on the psychosocial wellbeing of AIDS-orphaned children living in AIDS-impacted communities: Does gender matter?
Communities in sub-Saharan Africa continue to bear the biggest share of the global HIV/AIDS burden compared to the rest of the world. In 2012, an estimated 23.5…
Self-efficacy, academic performance and school transition among orphaned adolescents in southern Uganda
Introduction: Self-efficacy is critical to adolescents’ development. This study examined the relationship between self-efficacy, academic performance and transition…
Experiences of orphan care in Amach, Uganda: assessing policy implications
Uganda is estimated to have around two million orphans constituting approximately 19% of all the children in the country. This paper presents findings from a study…
“Dancing to the Tune of the Donor”: Donor Funding and Local Implementation of Initiatives to Assist Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Uganda, 1986 – 2011
This study is an inquiry into the exercise of power in the mainstream development apparatus, drawing from the case example of the dynamics among local and foreign…
Nutritional status of HIV/AIDS orphaned children in households headed by the elderly in Rakai District, South Western Uganda
Although a lot of research has been conducted on the role of good nutrition in mitigating the effects of HIV/AIDS, little is known about the health and nutritional…
Care for AIDS orphans in Uganda: findings from focus group discussions
Since 1982 when the first case of AIDS was identified in Rakai district (Serwadda et al. 1985) the disease has moved like a bushfire and killed many people in Uganda.…
Orphans as a window on the AIDS epidemic in sub-saharan Africa: Initial results and implications of a study in Uganda
Provisional estimates from a Save the Children Fund enumeration study in four Ugandan districts indicate that the total number of orphans (one or both parents missing)…
When the obvious brother is not there’’:Political and cultural contexts of the orphan challenge in northern Uganda
It is estimated that two million of Uganda’s children today are orphaned primarily due to AIDS. While recognising the immense impact of HIV/AIDS on the present…
Effects of Group Activity Play Therapy on Problem Behaviors of Preadolescent Ugandan Orphans
This randomized controlled study examined the effectiveness of group activity play therapy (GAPT) with 60 displaced Ugandan orphans, ages 10 to 12 years, exhibiting…
Peer-group support intervention improves the psychosocial well-being of AIDS orphans: Cluster randomized trial
Accumulating evidence suggests that AIDS orphanhood status is accompanied by increased levels of psychological distress such as anxiety, depression, intense guilt,…