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…

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 …

The members of EFA’s youth associations across northern Cameroon encounter frequent discrimination and stigma due to their HIV+ status. However, members of one of the associations recently discovered that their relationship with EFA provided them …

In April 2008, EFA International established a Peer Mentoring Program to assist with the development of the youth network in northern Cameroon. Five members of AJEPS, the first youth association to be supported by EFA, …