Agatha Kafuko, MA

Agatha Kafuko’s research seeks to identify and examine the nature and prevalence of mental health problems among older children and adolescents in post conflict and resource constrained communities, with perinatal HIV exposure, including those who are HIV-infected and those who were perinatally exposed to HIV but remain uninfected. Using mixed methods, the study seeks to compare the impact of HIV infection on the two categories of HIV affected children and adolescents and to delineate social and environmental risk factors associated with mental health functioning among these children. The research is intended to generate evidence that can contribute to informing the development of appropriate intervention strategies for improving mental health functioning among the HIV affected children in low resource and post conflict settings of Uganda.

Email:  akafuko@chuss.mak.ac.ug