Jamila got a cold reception when she returned home after 12 days in an isolation ward battling the Ebola virus in her hometown of Conakry, Guinea's capital.
Though she survived, Jamila was fired from her job as a philosophy teacher because her school feared she would infect her students, the 24-year-old said in an interview on July 3. She spoke on condition that her surname wasn't published because she doesn't want to be recognized as someone who has had the disease.
"People looked at me like I'd come back from the dead, like I was a zombie," said Jamila, who now does part-time work for Medecins Sans Frontieres, the Geneva-based medical charity. "Nobody except my relatives wanted anything to do with me anymore."