Circle of Love-Medical tests for HIV+ Cameroonians

Imagine living with a chronic disease.  Imagine that you need to take daily medications to keep your illness under control.  So far, not too difficult to imagine.  People around the world live with chronic diseases like diabetes or heart disease and manage their diseases.  Now imagine that your doctor...

Greetings dear supporters of Circle of Love,  This September, Northern Cameroon was adversely affected by heavy flooding throughout the Logone and Shari division, including the communities where EFA supports HIV-affected families. The flooding and excess standing water has helped to breed many mosquito in an already...

160 CD4 tests. 160 trips to the medical clinic. Because of the Circle of Love, the members of the youth empowerment network of Education Fights AIDS have, collectively, gotten 160 CD4 count tests since we began this effort! The CD4 count test is used to evaluate the progression of HIV and its effects on the immune system....

On March 8th, 2012, Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State for the United States, called on the world to create an "AIDS-Free generation" by using a host of interventions to prevent HIV transmission and infection. In addition to more traditional approaches to HIV prevention, such as condom use, and antiviral drugs can...

The youth in the Education Fights AIDS Network have a lot of fight in them. They fight HIV in their communities. They fight stigma.  They fight for each other.  They are also committed to fighting for their health.  And that fight keeps getting more difficult.  Much of the developing world is plagued by...

There is a saying that goes "when spiders unite, they can tie up a lion."  The members of the Education Fights AIDS (EFA) associations have tied up many lions!  And they have done it together, unified.  There are countless instances where the members, all young people infected or affected with HIV, have...

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 really kicked off the Circle of Love project in Cameroon. Djingui, one of the EFA Peer Educators, approached...