Women and hiv/aids: challenges and coping mechanisms Of women living withidv/aids in uganda:

AIDS is slowing down development efforts and exacerbating poverty in Sub-Saharan African. According to Miller (1988: xi), "HIV/AIDS is a triple disaster to Africa. First, the tragedy of the disease itself; secondly, the human suffering and thirdly the death", this triple disaster complicates the already " daunting development problems facing the continent and threatens to reverse the hard- won advances" (ibid). HIV/AIDS is a major killer of adults at the peak of their reproductive and economic lives in most African countries (Boyle et. a1 2006:1). In Uganda, particularly HIV/AIDS reduced Uganda's economic, political and social development.