Table Of ContentLiving with
AIDS in Uganda
Impacts on
banana-farming
households
in two districts
African women leaders
in agriculture and the environment
AWLAE SERIES No. 6
Monica Karuhanga Beraho
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Living with AIDS in Uganda
Living with AIDS in Uganda
Impacts on banana-farming households in two districts
AWLAE SERIES No. 6
Monica Karuhanga Beraho
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Acknowledgements
I am highly indebted to several individuals and organizations without whose support
it would not have been possible to accomplish my PhD studies.
This PhD study was funded by the Netherlands government through AWLAE
(African Women Leaders in Agriculture and Environment), a program of Winrock
International, for which am deeply thankful. I am also grateful to the study leave
granted to me by Makerere University and to my colleagues in the Department of
Agriculture Extension Education who took over my teaching and administrative
duties. Special thanks go to other friends in the Faculty of Agriculture for their
friendship and the words of encouragement that they always had for me: Peter
Ebanyat, Margaret Najjingo Mangheni, Christopher Bukenya, Florence Kyazze,
Edward Semakula, Frank Matsiko, Paul Kibwika, Joyce Kikafunda and Robina
Sonko. To Peter, Margaret and Pastor Jooga thanks for standing with me in prayers
during those many times that I needed your support.
My profound gratitude is due to the management and support staff of the AWLAE
Scholars PhD program who were key in facilitating administrative aspects of my
PhD work: Anke Niehof, Lisa Price, Antine Hardon, the late Julia Gitobu, Margaret
Lubale, Norah Muthike, Riet van de Westeringh, and Hedy Munro. To Anke and
Lisa am sincerely grateful for your tireless effort in starting such a novel program
that I could benefit from. Special thanks to Anke for your wisdom, patience and
commitment to ensuring successful implementation of the AWLAE program. All
financial and other support was always received on time. Assistance, warmth and
friendship from other staff of the Sociology of Consumers and Household Group is
also gratefully acknowledged. Special thanks to Juanwen Yuan and Hom Gartaula
with whom I shared offices. To Marian Koster, thanks so much for the friendship
and warmth we shared and for taking time to comment on all my chapters despite
your own busy schedule. I benefited very much from your critical input. Dinie
Verbeek thanks for organizing my work and have it ready for submission in time.
To my friends and colleagues in the first cohort of AWLAE scholars, Doris Kakuru,
Faith Nguthi, Lydia Ndirangu, and Caroline Nombo and those in the pipeline, Gaynor
Paradza, Hirut Bekele, Kidist Gebreselassie, and Susana Akrofi, I am grateful for
the friendship, laughter, care and support that we shared. To the other AWLAE
scholars that I interacted with, Corrie Du Preez, Joyce Challe, and Mariame Maiga,
thanks for the encouragement and friendship. All this support helped me to keep
focused on the goal to work hard and finish my PhD program. To the WUR Ugandan
friends during my last year in Wageningen: Enoch Kikulwe, Richard Mugambe,
Judith Tukahirwa, Ruth Mubeezi, Meshach Katusimeh, Christine Ampumuza, and
Racheal Namuli, thanks for creating such a supportive and enjoyable environment
away from home. I thank you for the many ways in which you blessed my stay in
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Wageningen. Special thanks go to Richard Mugambe, Robert Kyakanda and Farai
and Busi Maphosa for the spiritual support and special friendship.
I would like to express my sincere appreciation to all those who assisted me in my
research process. Special thanks go to Steven Yiga and Saul Kusemererwa for the
tireless effort they put into organizing the data collection process. I would like to
thank the respondents for their time and willingness to share their experiences with
me. I thank Jairus Muhere and Basil Mugonola for the data management process. I
am very grateful to Enoch Kikulwe, Edward Kato and Kidist Gebreselassie for their
technical assistance with the statistical analysis, Moses Musinguzi for drawing the
maps of the study area and Andrew Akrofi and Ed Hall for editorial assistance. My
gratitude also goes to Mike Jacobs of Wageningen Academic Publishers for the work
put into production of this book.
To my dear mother-in-law, Joyce Kobuyonjo, while am greatly indebted to your
support, I have no words that can describe how grateful I am. For more than two
years, you left your home to take care of my children and home during the time
I was in Wageningen pursuing my PhD studies. Thanks for the care and comfort
that you gave to the children and my husband; it gave me the peace and strength
to complete my studies. Thanks for the words of wisdom and encouragement at
those times when I would have given up. Without you I know I wouldn’t have
finished my program in time. I will forever be grateful to your support. To my
other relatives and in-laws thanks for the different ways in which you supported
my family during the period of my studies abroad. Special thanks to Steven and
Patience Mugarura, Sam and Grace Tayebwa, Simon Nuwagaba, Ruth Kenyangi
and Pamela Asiimwe.
I am highly indebted to my promoter Prof. dr. Anke Niehof for the technical
guidance, tireless review and re-reading of my work because you wanted it to be
excellent. I also thank you for your understanding and patience despite some of my
shortcomings, without you, this project would have been impossible to accomplish.
To my co-promotor Dr. Paul Hebinck, I am very grateful to the valuable critical input
that you always brought into our discussions. Your contributions have enriched
many of the ideas presented in this book. I also thank you and Anke for believing
in me and always making me feel that I could do even better. I am proud to have
been one of your students.
To my darling husband and friend Emmanuel Beraho, no words can express my
sincere gratitude for the love, understanding and support that you have continued
to give me throughout this PhD process and for shouldering all the parental
responsibilities. Thanks for all the sacrifices you made for your own studies and
work and for being there for the children and for me. To my dear children Namara,
Ainomugisha, Ninsiima, Kamukama and Kansiime-Ruhanga, thanks for the many
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ways in which you continued to express your love for me. I also thank you for the
patience despite missing me so much. The thought of you was a great source of
motivation and strength to complete my studies. In honour, I dedicate this book to
you, your Daddy and Nywokwenkuru.
Finally, and most important, I thank the Almighty God who gave me the wisdom,
good health and strength to successfully complete my studies. All glory and honour
be given to Him, for indeed He is a good and faithful God.
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