Kulani Jalata, 2012, Anthropology

Kulani Jalata ’12

I worked in rural Sierra Leone at the Global Action Foundation’s Wellbody clinic, which provides free healthcare to war-wounded civilians. I conducted an ethnographic study on its new HIV/AIDS Community-Based health outreach program, examining the impact that home-based care makes on treating people living with HIV/AIDS and on the outlooks and the daily activities of community-health workers. Through my research I find that although the clinic offers free access to HIV/AIDS, social stigma and other factors prevent full utilization of the free clinical services. My research plans to help show what the work of community-health workers entails and how home-based care attempts to answer the challenges of treating HIV/AIDS.