Bilingual guides: a strategy to decrease cultural barriers to health care access in the Wayuu communities of Maicao, Colombia

• Main Authors: Sandra Yaneth Patiño-Londoño (Author), Javier Mignone (Author), Diana María Castro-Arroyave (Author), Natalia Gómez Valencia (Author), Carlos Alberto Rojas Arbeláez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús, 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The article examines the use of bilingual guides to decrease cultural barriers to health care access in the Wayuu indigenous communities of Colombia. Within a larger project on HIV carried out between 2012 and 2014, 24 interviews were conducted with key actors in the administrative and health areas,...