This blog is meant to provide updates about my time in Ghana this summer for my family, friends, and any others who are interested in reading.
I leave for Ghana tomorrow evening and will arrive the following day around noon.
Brief run-down of my trip
May 10 - June 10: Unite For Sight
I will spend the first month of my trip in Accra with Unite For Sight, an outstanding global health organization with the mission of eliminating preventable blindness throughout the world. One of the major ways they improve the health of the communities in which they work is by partnering with local leaders to provide vision screenings in rural areas. From these vision screenings, community members are assessed for various vision issues, including refractive error, for which Unite For Sight offers eyeglasses, and cataract, for which Unite For Sight helps eliminate barriers to corrective surgery by subsidizing costs and assisting with lodging and travel for the surgeries.
In addition to performing general volunteering duties with Unite For Sight, I will be continuing a project of a recent graduate of Yale School of Public Health. This project focuses on evaluating how Unite For Sight's services for cataract surgeries impact individuals' poverty levels.
June 11-August 9: National AIDS Control Program
The remainder of my summer will be spent in Kumasi, working on my internship as part of my Master of Public Health degree. I have been working very diligently on this project since October 2011. The main project of my internship is developing a decision analytic model to compare therapy programs for HIV-positive pregnant women. Decision analytic models are really cool - I'm specifically using a decision tree for my model.
That's it for now! More updates to come post-arrival.
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