Blog Posts Tagged with: peace corps
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 …
Education Fights AIDS International announces a new and innovative training opportunity for members of the five Cameroonian associations of people affected or infected with HIV. The Men as Partners curriculum, developed by EngenderHealth, seeks to address inequities between men and women when it comes to health and healthy behaviors.
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.
EFA International is thrilled to announce the arrival of the newest member of the regional office staff! Caitlyn Bradburn is a Health Peace Corps volunteer who has been posted to EFA’s regional office for the …
This is a good day. This is a good life. It does not take much to remind me of all the wealth, non-material, of course, and beauty that exists around me. Sometimes I do need …
