I have always known I wanted to work with people. Since I was a little girl, I’ve been cleaning up neighborhood scratches and until a volunteer stint at a village clinic made me dizzyingly aware of my phobia towards needles, I thought I was going to be a nurse. But I ended up finding my [...]
Imagine that you got sick…maybe it was a result of your own actions, maybe it wasn’t. Maybe your partner, who you love and trust implicitly…made you sick. Maybe they betrayed you, maybe they just didn’t know and it never occurred to them to get tested for one reason or another. Maybe your mother was sick [...]
This is the story of Amina (name changed for this purpose) It is Thursday morning and as usual I get up at 5.30am. I quickly start to go through my routine morning duties ensuring breakfast for the kids is ready, assisting them in taking their baths, helping with feeding, dressing and finally putting them into [...]
SPECIAL THANKS TO MY INTERNS/VOLUNTEERS You know, I am sitting here wondering what to write today for the WAAF facebook posting. On a daily basis, I come in contact with so many people, so many situations, both good, bad, funny, sad etc that I could share with everyone but I have decided to write something [...]
The WAAF(plus) team was thrilled to have the opportunity to be a part of the Health Line radio show yesterday! Christine and her team were incredibly kind and we look forward to joining them again to help bring health information into Ghanaian homes. Dr. Naa spoke with Christine about Cervical Cancer and gave a very [...]
Written by Kerry and Christian: As new interns at WAAF, we are always hungry for exposure to all relevant issues related to HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, as well as all communicable and non-communicable diseases. This week we were informed by our associate director at NYU Accra about an invitation to attend the launch of [...]
CONFIDENCE Is 5 years old and has a beautiful smile! Confidence has Potts disease, or spinal TB. This left him very weak, unable to walk and with a small spinal lump at shoulder level. At five years old, he has never chased his friends, kicked a soccer ball, walked to school, or jumped out at [...]
“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.” -Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams Here at WAAF(plus), it’s no secret what we hope for. [...]
Many people may have heard of Tuberculosis or even know someone who has or has had Tuberculosis but what do we know about Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis? This is also an infection of the lung with the same bacteria that causes the Tuberculosis we know. However, this strain of bacteria has been able to change [...]
Although WAAF has for over 10 years been managing Persons Infected with HIV, one major constraint has been the laboratory monitoring of its many clients. Although arrangements had been made for samples from the clinic to be sent and analyzed at various governmental health institutions, the high number of samples in addition to the extra [...]
