Uganda: Why Masculine Sexual Privilege Persists in Uganda

At 20, Christine officially married a man with a good job as a medical assistant. Over the next decade, they had five children together. But then her husband fell sick and died of HIV/Aids. From that point forward, she knew she too was infected, and because she was monogamous while her husband had two other long-term relationships during their marriage, she felt he was to blame.

But Christine was not embittered. She told Robert Wyrod" "At that time, people were not fearing HIV/Aids so much. They were not well informed." In the course of the next decade, both her co-wives also died of HIV/Aids. But Christine never remarried after her husband's death.

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