Table 4. Percent socio-cultural activities perceived to expose different gender to tsetse bites.
Gender | ||||||
Study area | Cultural activity | Men | Women | Boys | Girls | Total |
Western Kenya | Cleansing rituals/Ritual bathing | 17.0 | 11.5 | 9.0 | 8.0 | 45.5 |
Exhumation of dead/memorials | 1.4 | 4.9 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 8.4 | |
Marriage (Welcoming women) | 4.2 | 6.8 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 15.0 | |
Appeasing spirits | 3.2 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 6.7 | |
Baptism | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.2 | |
Rain making | 3.0 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.3 | |
Circumcision | 4.0 | 03 | 7.6 | 0.0 | 11.9 | |
Traditional healing/medicine | 2.5 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | |
Total | 37.2 | 32.7 | 20.0 | 10.1 | 100.0 | |
Southeast Uganda | Cleansing rituals/Ritual bathing | 28.0 | 14.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 58.0 |
Appeasing spirits | 2.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 4.3 | |
Marriage (Welcoming women) | 5.7 | 6.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12.6 | |
Circumcision | 4.6 | 1.0 | 19.5 | 0.0 | 25.1 | |
Total | 40.4 | 23.0 | 28.6 | 8.0 | 100.0 |