Working with journalists
AFCA welcomes coverage of the health access gap in Cameroon, and will help journalists get the story right — including the parts that are not flattering to us.
We can provide interviews with the founder and with clinical volunteers, background on how campaigns are planned and funded, verified figures once a campaign has been reconciled, and access to a campaign day subject to the conditions set out below. What we cannot do is produce patients on request or hand over anything that identifies them.
Media contact
Phone and WhatsApp: +237 6 79 62 34 55
Hours: 07:00 – 21:00
Written enquiries: via the contact page, marked for media
Please state your outlet, your deadline and what you need. Deadline-driven requests are prioritised.
Spokesperson
Dr Ayafor Eric — President & Founder, and a practising medical doctor. Available for interview in English and French on health access, outreach methodology, and the cost barriers facing Cameroonian households.
Approved descriptions you can quote directly
These are checked and current. Using them saves you a verification call.
Short — one line
Alliance For Community Awareness (AFCA) is a volunteer-led Cameroonian non-profit that runs free medical campaigns in communities where care is out of reach.
Standard — one paragraph
Alliance For Community Awareness (AFCA) is a registered Cameroonian non-governmental organisation founded and led by medical professionals. It delivers free medical campaigns — temporary clinics set up in schools, town halls and health centres — providing consultations with licensed doctors, screening and testing, maternal and child health services, health education and free prescribed medication, at no cost to the patient. AFCA works across Cameroon’s ten regions in cooperation with district health authorities and local partners, and refers cases requiring further care into the existing health system.
Mission statement
“To bring free, competent and dignified medical care to communities that the health system does not reach — and to leave those communities better informed about their own health.”
Vision statement
“A Cameroon where nobody goes untreated because of distance, cost or circumstance.”
Please avoid
AFCA is not a hospital, a clinic or a charity “mission” run from abroad, and it is not government-run. It is a Cameroonian organisation staffed by Cameroonian health professionals. Describing patients as “beneficiaries” or communities as “rescued” misrepresents both the work and the people receiving it.
Key facts for reporting
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Full legal name | Alliance For Community Awareness |
| Acronym | AFCA (use the full name on first mention) |
| Type | Registered non-profit, non-governmental organisation |
| Country of registration | Cameroon |
| Founder and President | Dr Ayafor Eric, practising medical doctor |
| Area of operation | All ten regions of Cameroon |
| Working languages | English and French, with local-language interpretation on campaign days |
| Core activity | Free medical campaigns: consultation, screening and testing, maternal and child health, health education, free medication, onward referral |
| Staffing model | Volunteer clinicians and coordinators; no salaried outreach staff |
| Funding | Individual donors in Cameroon and the diaspora, corporate and association sponsorship, in-kind medical donations |
| Website | allianceforcommunityawareness.org |
Verified activity figures are published on the impact page as each campaign is reconciled. Please use those rather than estimates, and contact us if you need a figure that is not yet listed.
Covering a campaign day
Media are welcome at campaigns. Patient dignity is not negotiable, and these conditions apply to everyone with a camera, including us.
Arrange access in advance
Campaign sites are agreed with local health authorities and host communities, and both must approve media attendance. Turning up unannounced will mean being asked to wait outside.
No filming inside consultations
Consultation areas are screened and closed to cameras. This applies without exception, including where a patient says they do not mind.
Written consent for identifiable images
Any recognisable patient must give informed written consent, in a language they read, before being photographed or interviewed — and may withdraw it afterwards.
Children
A parent or guardian must consent in person. We will not facilitate interviews with unaccompanied minors under any circumstances.
No clinical information attributed to a named patient
We will not confirm, deny or discuss any individual’s diagnosis, test result or treatment with a journalist, whatever the patient may have said publicly.
Volunteers speak for themselves
Clinical volunteers may give interviews about their own experience. They do not speak on behalf of AFCA unless we have said in advance that they do.
Logo and images
The AFCA logo, approved campaign photographs cleared for publication, and headshots of the spokesperson are available to accredited media on request. Please ask rather than lifting images from the site: many of the photographs here are consented for AFCA’s own use only and not for third-party publication.
The logo should not be recoloured, stretched, or combined with another organisation’s mark in a way that implies a partnership that does not exist.
Corrections
If we get something wrong in a statement or a published figure, tell us and we will correct it on this site and say what changed. We ask the same courtesy of outlets that misreport our work.
Story ideas beyond AFCA
If you are reporting on health access in Cameroon more broadly, we are happy to point you towards district health officials, academic sources and other organisations, including where their view differs from ours.