Table 1. Impact of HIV/AIDS on Mothers’ Ability to Attend Activities With Their Children: Percent of Mothers Indicating each Response Overall and by Race/Ethnicity.

Activities/Reasons	Total	Latina	African American	Multi- racial	White	Illustrative quotations
Mothers Who Missed Out on Specific Activities (n = 34)
School and extracurricular activities	47%	53%	50%	25%	0%	“The school was far away, sometimes I didn’t have the energy…I didn’t go to the meetings…the teachers would call me.”
Going places	42%	53%	21%	50%	50%	“When a certain time of day comes, I can’t do anything. So when my son wants to go to the movies … I can’t take him … I couldn’t do many things.”
Daily care	35%	27%	36%	50%	50%	“You feel useless. You cannot cook for your kids, take care of them.”
Active, leisure time play	18%	27%	7%	0%	50%	“There was a lot of things. I think a lot of it had to do with just being able to go out and experience a lot of physical things.”
Reasons for Missing Activities (n = 34)
Poor physical health	94%	87%	100%	100%	100%	“I was so sick so it was hard taking care of him.”
Poor mental health	26%	33%	15%	50%	33%	“I’d rather sit home and do nothing in my depression than get out of it and let him have more of a normal childhood.”
Stigma/secrecy	12%	7%	15%	0%	50%	“I wanted to hide … I was very ashamed.”
Reasons for Not Missing Activities (n = 23)
Good physical health	78%	92%	71%	0%	50%	“I pretty much haven’t been ill during their whole life.”
HIV as motivator to do “more”	17%	8%	14%	0%	50%	“I think it caused us [to do] more.”
“Powering through” limitations	17%	17%	29%	0%	0%	“I just push myself and just go and catch up with rest later.”