Our Medical Internship Program is aimed at volunteers with clinical backgrounds or those interested in gaining first-hand experience in various medical fields for placement in our HIV/AIDS education, counseling, testing, and treatment protocols.
Interns interested in conducting field placement attachments for pre-med, nursing, social work or related fields will be trained to conduct various relevant duties.
Duties may include conducting and analyzing rapid HIV/AIDS tests on patients during outreach, counseling, and record-keeping; conducting surveys on our outreach population; and acting as liaison to partnering clinics for individuals in our outreach.
Volunteers opting to participate in this program may also be integrated into various roles in the HIV/AIDS Dance-Drama and Teaching/Orphanage Programs alternating during their stay. However, their primary duties will be with the medical Internship aspect of our program.
Successful volunteers will receive an official Certificate of Completion by our organization to illustrate the scope and magnitude of participation for future recommendation.
Providing health information without referrals and access to health services is incomplete. Therefore, Sankofa Center partners with local area hospitals in our field outreach communities to link our clients to support services. Our partners provide confirmation blood testing of HIV/AIDS, personal and family counseling, prescription medicines to fight opportunistic infections and anti-retroviral drugs. Sankofa Center relies on the premise that the combination of education and access to health services is essential for behavior change. However, this is a growing challenge for both our rural lower income clients and stakeholders in resource strapped Ghana. Visit our online store where you can purchase items made by our cooperative to directly support our HIV positive clients continued access to health services.
