Tag Archive: Disability

To continue my mission to educate as many persons with disabilities as possible about HIV and AIDS, I took a trip to Bali, a village located about 15 minutes by car from Bamenda.  In Bali, I met with a group of 12 persons with disabilities to give an education on HIV prevention. Before I began the […]

Last October, I did a Nutrition Workshop for a small group of persons with disabilities.  When doing workshops on various health topics, I normally give each workshop more than once so that I can reach out to as many people as possible.  However, for this workshop, I did it only once because the workshop produced unsatisfying […]

As I have discussed in previous blog posts, access to HIV education and services is a prominent issue in the disability community.  To help increase the willingness of persons with disabilities to talk openly and knowledgeably about HIV/AIDS in their groups, families and communities so that they can help each other prevent HIV/AIDS, I gave […]

Last month, I followed up my malaria evaluation by revisiting seven of the ten homes of select people who participated in the workshop and first round of home visits.  Just to quickly recap the first malaria evaluation, all homes except for two homes had mosquito nets although one home didn’t have mosquito nets for all […]

In honor of World AIDS Day, which happens on December 1st every year, and International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which is on December 3rd every year, my host organization, Coordinating Unit of Association of Persons with Disabilities, in collaboration with Bamenda Regional Hospital, hosted a PEPFAR-funded HIV testing at the International Day of Persons […]