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| Title: | Implications of bride price on domestic violence and reproductive health in Wakiso District, Uganda |
| Authors: | Kaye, Dan K.
Mirembe, Florence
Ekstrom, A. Mia
Kyomuhendo, Grace Bantebya
Johansson, Annika |
| Keywords: | Domestic violence
Reproductive Health
Bride price
Uganda
Wakiso District
Human rights |
| Issue Date: | 2005 |
| Publisher: | Makerere University Medical School |
| Citation: | Kaye, D.K, Mirembe, F., Kyomuhendo, G.B., Ekstrom, A.M., Johansson, A. (2005). Implications of bride price on domestic violence and reproductive health in Wakiso District, Uganda. African Health Sciences, 5(4) |
| Abstract: | Objective: Bride price payment is a gender issue with implications on gender relations in different socio-cultural contexts. It also impacts
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. In a qualitative study on the perceptions of domestic violence in Wakiso district, payment of
bride price emerged as one of the key factors associated with domestic violence. The study explored experiences, motivations, meanings,
consequences and reproductive health implications of bride price payment in Wakiso district Uganda.
Methods: 10 single-sex focus group discussions and 14 in-depth interviews were conducted in Wakiso and Nangabo sub-counties, Wakiso
district from July 2003 through March 2004. Data was analyzed by thematic content analysis, assisted by Easy Text software for data
retrieval.
Findings: Participants perceived bride price as indicating that a woman was ‘bought’ into the man’s household, which reduced her
household decision-making roles. It limited women’s independence and perpetuated unequal gender power relations, especially regarding
health-seeking behaviour.
Conclusion: Bride price payment is a contextual factor that the community in Wakiso District, Uganda, perceived as associated with
domestic violence, with serious sexual and reproductive health implications. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1778 |
| ISSN: | 1680-6905 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Articles (Health-Sciences)
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