MOH Holds First Implementation Meeting on Treatment of Clubfoot using Ponseti Technique
The Ministry of Public Health (MOH) has pledged its readiness to work with the CBC Health Services to ensure increased access to clubfoot treatment following the recent Ministerial Approval on the treatment of Clubfoot treatment using the Ponseti method. Dr. Post Views: 26
Changing the Tides for Disability Inclusion in East Region of Cameroon
The problem of disability is a complicated dilemma to Africa, known for the value it attaches to procreation. The ability to bear children is a blessing from God or the gods and an assurance of continued lineage, especially if one is lucky enough to bring forth male offspring. Post Views: 36
Untamed behaviors: an increased risk for spread of HIV in Foumbot
We met Carol at “La rue de la joie” (the street of joy) in Foumbot, unlike its name which evokes feelings of happiness, the street is a narrowly-tarred-track of about 200 meters long. With some old dilapidated buildings dotted in the area like in other parts of Foumbot, Post Views: 41
Overcoming COVID-19 Scare in HIV Clients, other Patients avoiding the Hospital
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic at the dawn of 2020 has literally forced everyone the world at large to adjust their routine activities in different ways, in a bid to fight the deadly epidemic. Health facilities have been Post Views: 31
Role of Peer Experts in supporting newcomers initiated into ART
The anxiety of embarking on an unknown journey can be frightful to many. While the fear of the unknown can keep some from life-transforming ventures, a little push from someone who has experienced and benefitted from such a voyage may just be the Post Views: 23
“Community Based Rehabilitation Gave Life to My Son” Parent
Baida Rosaline, a young woman of 27 years in Kaele, a predominantly Muslim community in the Far North Region of Cameroon finds hope in the Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) for her son with disability in a community where giving birth to a child with Post Views: 26
EDID Program Manager woos Key stakeholders to embrace Inclusive Development
Empowerment and Disability Inclusive Development (EDID) Program Manager, Mrs. Agho Glory has called on all relevant stakeholders in the East, North and Far North Regions of Cameroon to put their hands-on deck to put an end to the exclusion of Post Views: 19
CBCHS builds Capacities of PLAN International Field Staff on CBID
The staff members of Plan International Cameroon have been schooled on Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID), an aspect of less focused in the Organization over the years. The 3-day workshop organized by the Socio Economic Empowerment of Persons with Post Views: 22
CBR Model: Fireproofing Dreams of Youngsters with Disabilities
Matakon is a dynamic 17-year old boy in Moudawa, a hard to reach locality in Mouda, a subdivision in the Far North Region of Cameroon. Matakon has a mobility impairment, which he sustained from a fire incident in 2014. Post Views: 26
Despite multiple challenges, CBCHB and partners are well on course towards achieving HIV epidemic control in CDC/PEPFAR Project Zone I
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Cameroon’s Country Director – Doctor Emily Kainne Dokubo and team paid a working visit to CBCHB – lead implementer of CDC/PEPFAR Post Views: 15
STEP Approach recording Successes in Cameroon
Parents and caregivers of Children Living with Cerebral Palsy (CP) in Cameroon have expressed their joys, expectations and hope for their children who have been beneficiaries of the(S)upport (T)ools (E)nabling (P)arents – STEP Approach. The STEP Approach, which Post Views: 31
CBM/CBCHS fostering Inclusive Education to gain Steam across the National Territory
The challenges faced in the collection of data for pupils with disabilities will soon be a thing of the past following the donation of some equipment to the Delegation of Basic Education, North West Region of Cameroon. These Post Views: 26