Volunteer abroad in Ghana for HIV/AIDS awareness; international volunteer work campaigning for AIDS awareness in Africa

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Volunteer Abroad Raising Awareness about HIV/AIDS in Africa

As the plight HIV/AIDS prevention in Africa has been widely publicized, volunteers all over the world have been coming to Ghana to help spread information about the disease. Over the last number of years, Projects Abroad has been sending volunteers to Ghana in an effort to educate members of the local community. Volunteering in Ghana is the ideal place to begin working on an HIV/AIDS project as the country has been taking preventative efforts seriously since the mid-1980s. Your help on our HIV/AIDS project in Accra, the capital of Ghana, will strengthen the hard work that has already been put in place as well as create new avenues for growth.

International Volunteer Work in HIV/AIDS Clinics in Ghana

In Ghana, you will be working at La General Hospital’s HIV/AIDS clinic in Accra. Within the hospital, volunteers work at the Voluntary Counseling and Testing (V.C.T.) facility, which is a pre-counseling and post-counseling HIV center. Throughout your volunteer experience, you will work during testing services and your role will be based on observing how the clinic is run as well as the way HIV testing and counseling is approached in Ghana. This will give you fascinating insight about the comparisons and contrasts to how testing is conducted at home and the cultural differences in your country’s approach to HIV/AIDS.

Volunteering Abroad on HIV/AIDS Campaigns in Africa

In addition to your observation work at the hospital, you will be expected to help co-ordinate community and school events to help raise HIV awareness around Accra. All of the campaigning for AIDS awareness is done in English, so you will easily be able to communicate your message to those in attendance. You will be asked to give talks on HIV/AIDS prevention and the benefits of getting tested at the V.C.T. clinic.

By giving talks on HIV/AIDS, you will enhance peer education among students who already have adequate information about the topics. You will be promoting AIDS prevention and encourage others to make informed decisions about their health. Raising awareness about the benefits of getting tested and utilizing the V.C.T. clinic will help encourage early diagnosis and treatment of the disease.

For your presentations, you will be using demonstrative materials such as posters, pamphlets, and informative materials for those in attendance to keep. In some instances, you will also have test kits to show around and give a real idea about what those getting tested can expect at the hospital.

You will be expected to work about five and a half hours a day beginning at 8:30am. We encourage volunteers to bring any materials about HIV/AIDS awareness that they have at home to Ghana in order to help out in their public campaigns fighting the disease.