Providing HIV services to 20,000 Cameroonian youth

Bonus Day is today, and we want you to help keep our Peer Educators “rolling!”  $99 won’t “brake” the bank but will “steer” Peer Educators out to remote villages which rarely benefit from HIV education and outreach.  It takes many hours (sometimes an overnight...

Bonjour les amis,  J'ai le plaisir de vous partager le rapport annuel 2011 d'EFA International en francais. Merci a tous ceux qui ont contribué à l'excellent travail et le succès continu de l'EFA International. Nous vous remercions de votre soutien continu. Bientôt, nous allons poster...

For over half a decade, EFA International has responded to its mission of promoting the successful future of young men and women who are touched by HIV. We are grateful to donors like you for the financial support that has enabled recent successes in our three core program areas: 9 HIV-positive...

On Tuesday’s plenary session at the International AIDS Conference, Phil Wilson of the Black AIDS Institute talked about the need for an “army of patient navigators,” people who provide the critical connection between HIV-affected individuals and life-saving health and social services.As a Peace Corps...

June 27th is National HIV Testing Day in the United States. Too many people don't know they have HIV. According to the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the United States, nearly 1.2 million people are living with HIV, and almost one in five don't know they are infected. This means that they are...

Education, in particular HIV/AIDS education, is the cornerstone of EFA’s strategy to improve the condition of life for the associations and members of our Youth Empowerment Network. Peace Corps Volunteer Caitlyn Bradburn paved the way when she created the Peer Education program. The Peer Education program was...

"Treatment or prevention?" In the absence of a cure for HIV, for the past 30 years this question has been the center of debate. For those of us who have dedicated our lives to the fight against AIDS, recent research has given us a glimmer of hope—and may have finally ended this debate. In May, the University of North...

My husband died from a disease that we didn’t understand; after medical exams, the results showed that we had been infected [with HIV]. This was a huge shock for me; in addition my husband’s family began to treat me bad, insulting me, refusing to talk to me just because I was infected. I was not even allowed to...

Irene* is petite, with almond-shaped eyes and a brillant smile. She is married with one child and an eighth grade education. Irène is HIV-epositive. These facts alone are enough to make her story brave, exceptional. Many women in northern Cameroon are told than an HIV diagnosis is a death...

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 me...

My name is Laurel Chor and I am a GlobalGiving intern who is visiting all of our partner organizations in Cameroon! Let me tell you about my visit to the project that you donated to… It is often said that in reality, it is not HIV/AIDS that kills--it is stigma that does. It is because of stigma that people are...

EFA Activities for April-June 2011 EFA International's peer educators and support associations continue to expand with increasing projects and activities. In March and April, a TrustAfrica grant enabled EFA International's peer educators to reach more than 8,000 community members in more than 10 communities with talks...

Organizational Update The months of January through March 2011 were especially productive ones for the EFA International regional office.  First, sadly, EFA bid adieu et grand merci to our technical advisor Peace Corps Volunteer Caitlyn Bradburn who worked for two years to serve the mission of EFA to promote the...

October, 2010Locations: Bibemi, Adoumri, and Maroua, Extreme North Province, Cameroon  Another successful educational outreach in two remote villages.  Over 4,000 people attended and participated in community presentations made by EFA youth network Peer Educators and three Peace Corps...