It is impossible to hide how proud I am of the ever-so-brave members of the Education Fights AIDS youth associations.  This story is about Djingui a member of our AJEPS association and the one who …

EFA simply could not function without benefiting from countless volunteers. One volunteer deserves extra special recognition, though. Addie Ryan recently completed approximately four months of volunteer service with EFA Cameroon.

by Caitlyn Bradburn, Technical Advisor
MAROUA, CAMEROON — HIV is not the death-sentence it once was.  Anti-retroviral medications (ARVs) are free to those who qualify and recent research shows that young people, especially, in Cameroon have …

As EFA’s technical advisor and as one of 13 facilitators of the Men As Partners program, I am proud to report that our February 2010 training has been a genuine success!
 
This two-week-long health education and wellness training benefited 30 …

Healing, in the anthropological sense, is a multi-sensorial process that carries an individual along the continuum from illness to wellness. In the case of people living with HIV or AIDS, “wellness” cannot be defined as an absence of the virus or as the success of a “cure”. Rather, a more holistic definition of “wellness” should be employed. A person living with HIV or AIDS is in a state of “wellness” when he or she has embraced a whole sense of him or herself and moved from a state of despair and confusion to hope and self-reclamation. The associations in the EFA network strive to create deeper, truer connectivity to self and others. As such, the associations offer an opportunity for people infected with HIV or AIDS to come into a state of wellness…

Not too long ago, I decided to visit a hospital where many of the association members go for their health care.

Relatively speaking, this hospital is a good one. It is private, meaning that the patients pay for their services—and the bills can quickly add up! There is a lab and a pharmacy on site which also makes for better, more streamlined, faster services.