Name:   Clement Sakala

Country of Origin:   Zambia

NLS Award: 2001-2002

Graduate Program: PhD Primary Health Care Management, University of Warwick, UK

Goal:   Promote programs in Zambia with Planned Parenthood and other agencies to combat the negative social and cultural practices and attitudes of Zambian males toward women's use of contraceptives, reproductive health services, HIV/AIDS transmission, and gender violence.

Current Projects:   Clement Sakala finished his PhD Program in Primary Health Care Management at the University of Warwick Medical School in the United Kingdom. His dissertation is entitled, “The Transmission of HIV/AIDS in Heterosexual Marital Relationships in Zambian Rural Communities and HIV/AIDS: a Case Study of the Petauke District.” His study is intended as a contribution towards efforts to mitigate the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country. The research topic for his thesis is focused on examining the connection between the wider social economic conditions and cultural context in rural communities and on how this intersects with the risk of HIV/AIDS in heterosexual marital relationships. Further, the study specifically explores the intersection between domestic violence and HIV/AIDS transmission in marital relationships. In his work with a newly established local Non Governmental Organization called the Community Partnership Project on HIV/AIDS Prevention in Zambia, the study conducted for his thesis is already opening up new and pragmatic opportunities for a societal dimension to addressing gender inequalities in relation to HIV/AIDS transmission in marital relationships mainly in hard to reach rural communities in Zambia.

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