Abstract |
This study explores the access women with disabilities (WWD) have to information and treatment of HIV/AIDS in the Jinja District of Uganda. The first chapter looks at the background of disability and gender within Uganda and the broader international context, and presents the goals and objectives of the study. Chapter two looks at gender and disability in the broad literature, within the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and in education and gendered access to ICTs. The third chapter looks at the methodology used in the study. The primary research consisted of workshops and questionnaires with WWD, men with disabilities (MWD) and their non-disabled counterparts in the Jinja District of Uganda. This study attempted to identify if WWD had less access than MWD and their non-disabled counterparts and which factors were the cause of this restriction. The study also included questionnaires completed by health workers from four separate health care facilities that aimed to establish the challenges they face in accommodating people with disabilities (PWD). The forth chapter looks at the findings of the study. It focuses on several areas that restrict access to information and treatment. The findings analyse the participant’s level of knowledge of HIV/AIDS and where they had received information previously. It also looks at educational attainment and literacy rates, access to mass media and interpersonal forms of communication, and behavioural attitudes towards condom use and testing. Chapter four concludes with a review of access to HIV/AIDS treatment, establishing where treatment was available and how accessible it was for PWD. |