Search for dissertations about: "care about orphans"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words care about orphans.

  2. 1. HIV-infected African parents living in Stockholm, Sweden : social networks, disclosure, parenthood, and knowledge about HIV-transmission

    Author : Ann-Sofie Åsander; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : African parents; collectivism-individualism coping and adaptation ; disclosure; HIV AIDS; parenting; social network; Sweden; Uganda; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Background: HIV-infected individuals born in Africa constitute about 30 percent of the about 5000 persons who are living with HIV in Sweden, and represent the largest group of those infected through heterosexual contact. Thus, most children of HIV-infected persons in Sweden have a parent of African origin. READ MORE

  4. 2. Making motherhood safe in the West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory

    Author : Nadim Al-Adili; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : West Bank; reproductive deaths; maternal mortality; avoidability; verbal autopsy; quality of care; women s status; violence against women; Orphans survival; gender; death notification and registration; Occupied Palestinian Territory.;

    Abstract : Objective: To determine causes of death among women of reproductive age; to determine MMR; to review death notification and registration procedures, and to examine the fate and status of under-5 motherless orphans in the West Bank. Methods: All reported deaths (n= 431) of women 15-49 years old during 2000-2001 in the West Bank area of OPT were investigated. READ MORE