Taking Opportunities, Taking Medicines: Antibiotic Use in Rural Eastern Uganda: Antibiotic Use in Rural Eastern Uganda

Susan Nayiga; Laurie Denyer Willis; Sarah Staedke; Clare I.R. Chandler

doi:10.1080/01459740.2022.2047676

Taking Opportunities, Taking Medicines: Antibiotic Use in Rural Eastern Uganda: Antibiotic Use in Rural Eastern Uganda

Susan Nayiga, Laurie Denyer Willis, Sarah Staedke, Clare I.R. Chandler

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Abstract

The ways in which dimensions of health and healthcare intersect with economics and politics in particular contexts requires close attention. In this article we connect concerns about antibiotic overuse in Uganda to the social milieu created through policies that follow President Museveni’s vision for a population who kulembeka, “tap wealth.” Ethnographic fieldwork in rural Eastern Uganda illustrates how taking medicines in rural households reflects a wider landscape of everyday imperatives to “tap” opportunities in a context of acute precarity. We argue for a closer connection between medical and economic anthropology to push forward understanding of health, medicines and wellbeing in Africa.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	418-430
Number of pages	13
Journal	Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
Volume	41
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2022.2047676
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2022
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

antibiotics
medicines
opportunity
precarity
rural
Uganda

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