"Congratulations! It is with great pleasure that we invite you to begin training in Togo for Peace Corps Service..."
Country: Togo
Program: Community Health & AIDS Prevention (CHAP)
Job Title: Health & HIV/AIDS Prevention Extension Agent
Dates of Service: August 21st, 2008 - August 20th, 2010
Orientation Dates: June 3rd, 2008-June 5th, 2008
Pre-Service Training (in Togo): June 6th, 2008-August 21st, 2008
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p.s. this invitation to Togo totally came from left field. but c'est la vie. oh and I even got an impersonally stamped letter from President Bush! sweet...
Community Health & AIDS Prevention (CHAP):-
The purpose of the CHAP project is to assist the Togolese Ministry of Health and other partners in the improvement and expansion of community health education, mainly in the following domains: the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic; the fight against malaria; infant growth monitoring and nutritional education and; family planning education. The CHAP project focuses on public health education on four main health development programs:
1) Child growth monitoring and nutrition education for mothers
2) Family planning: childbirth spacing, reproductive health and sexual education for young people
3) Fight against malaria
4) Prevention of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections and support for people living with HIV/AIDS
The other possible domains include hygiene and sanitation education, community organization and mobilization, vaccinations, guinea worm eradication and diarrhea treatment. CHAP project primary collaborators and counterparts potentially include the following: agents of HIV/AIDS prevention and care, NGOs, leaders of the association of people living with HIV/AIDS, nurses, sanitation/hygiene agents, midwives, and personnel of the regional and/or prefecture health offices. There are currently about 30 CHAP PCVs in the field. The June 2008 CHAP group will be the 14th to join the project.
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