Women's health : African and global perspectives / editor, Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Health difference among men and women in urban slum settings : the case of Kamwokya II Parish, Kampala / Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo and Peter P. Kyomubendo -- Health in the Gambia and in Norway : women's comparative experiences / Inga Bryde Claus -- The socio-cultural aspects in utilisation of medicinal plants in reproductive health care in western Uganda / Maud Kamatenesi Mugisha -- Domestic violence among women attending antenatal clinic in Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda / Dan Kaye -- The effect of gender bias on the health care of woman / Mattilou Catchpole -- Body literacy : field notes from an undergraduate biology course / Cynthia Bauerle -- Gendering disease : HIV/AIDS and the struggle against orthodoxy and silence / Pieter P. Fourie -- Invisible hope : HIV/AIDS and women / Katherine Ellington -- Sexual practice and AIDS risk among Black women / Yanyi K. Djamba -- AIDS and intergenerational communication among urban women in Lilongwe, Malawi / Ezekiel Kalipeni, Sara Zamor, and Jayati Ghosh -- The AIDS crisis in Uganda and family stress / Kabahenda Nyakabwa -- HIV/AIDS and violence against women : insight from Botswana / Tapologo Maundeni -- Menopausal health problems of women aged 50 years and above in Kampala / Jemimah Mary Mutabazi and Yedidah Biribonwa -- Interrogating gender and subjectivity among older Dogon women in Mali / Kathleen Slobin -- Gendered medicine : medicalised medicine, US style / Vicki F. Meyer -- Nutrition, osteoporosis, and the aging woman / Gertrude Mercy Were.