Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of 798 caregivers by first treatment action taken, Rakai Uganda, 2006

	Total	No Treatment%	Use Herbs%	Bought medicine%	Health Centre/Hosp (Govt/NGO)%	Private clinic%	HBMF%
Education level
Never been to School	138	0.0	10.1	17.4	26.1	21.7	24.6
Primary	226	1.5	11.0	13.4	17.4	20.3	36.4
Post primary	320	0.0	4.4	19.3	4.0	20.2	42.1
Religion
Catholic	439	1.4	11.4	14.4	17.5	16.4	39.0
Protestants	201	0.5	8.0	14.4	20.4	27.9	28.9
Moslems	93	0.0	5.4	12.9	21.5	21.5	38.7
Other Christians	35	2.9	14.3	22.9	14.3	20.0	25.7
Others	30	0.0	10.0	23.3	13.3	30.0	23.3
Occupation
Peasant Farmer	724	0.8	10.4	14.4	19.2	20.4	34.8
Private Business	39	2.6	7.7	17.9	7.7	23.1	41.0
Civil Servant	17	0.0	5.9	11.8	23.5	11.8	47.1
Others	4	5.6	0.0	33.3	5.6	27.8	27.8
Marital Status
Married/living with spouse	653	0.8	9.6	14.7	19.6	21.4	33.8
Widowed	54	0.0	9.3	7.4	16.7	20.4	46.3
Divorced/Separated	45	2.2	13.3	22.2	11.1	15.6	35.6
Single/Never married	46	4.3	10.9	19.6	10.9	13.0	41.3