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“I did not choose to be HIV positive, I was born with it. When I go to the hospital the nurses are very mean to me. They neglect me and at times throw insults at me. At times they task me to sort my treatment file among a pile of many files, without which they will not give me drugs. Worst of all in my school the teacher isolated me from the...
In my later years as a medical student, I was fortunate to take calls in a local clinic in the neighborhood of my medical school – University of Buea, Cameroon. Still struggling to finetune the clinical skills I had learned through my training, making sense of clinical presentation of diseases, prescription of medicines and para-clinical inves...
“Can I dispense Floxapen (antibiotic) for Flucazole (antifungi)…?” asked a roadside drug vendor. This, and many others, are some of the poor practices Cameroonians are exposed to on a daily basis. What an untimely coincidence, at a time when countries are aligning themselves towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda and ...
