As EFA’s technical advisor and the facilitator 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 young men who …
Our self-sustaining HIV+ youth groups fight stigma and provide professional and personal growth opportunities.
A community garden provides education and nutrition for people orphaned by HIV/AIDS and the Rwandan genocide.
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From the front lines to behind-the-scenes, meet the people who are fighting the good fight for youth affected by HIV/AIDS.
Education impacts individuals, families, communities, nations, and the globe.
Education Fights AIDS is a truth that has many explanations. EFA’s work is based on the belief that education can impact people on many levels: individuals, families, communities, nations, and globally.
Individual: Helping HIV+ people to …
The members of AWALLA are currently benefiting from the assistance of a new Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) posted in their region. The PCV is now working with AWALLA to improve their access to treatment, as …
In early 2009, ABEPSA officially joined offices with AJEPS in their office space in Maroua. This partnership allowed AJEPS to pay off outstanding rent payments and ABEPSA to establish a permanent office.
The collaboration has proven …
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.
During the first three months of 2009, EFA International worked closely with the Rebero Orphan Center to launch two new initiatives: an education program and a nutrition program based around a new community garden.
Education
In February, …
