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Meet Dieye Sokhna Babou, head midwife in Popenguine, Senegal
Senegal SRHR Youth and adolescents health

Meet Dieye Sokhna Babou, head midwife in Popenguine, Senegal

22 December 2025

Dieye Sokhna Babou, head midwife in Popenguine, Mbour, Senegal, received training as part of the SANSAS project. She tells us about how she discovered her vocation. When I was little, I always wanted to go into medicine. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” “A doctor!” It was a passion. After graduating from high school, I did...

Meet Dr. Moise Gale Grah, physician at the Kindia Health Center, Guinea
Guinea Cervical cancer HIV/AIDS STI

Meet Dr. Moise Gale Grah, physician at the Kindia Health Center, Guinea

17 December 2025

Dr. Moise Gale Grah, a physician at the Kindia Health Center in Guinea, received training as part of the SUCCESS II project. He tells us about the origins of his commitment to helping those who are forgotten. Since my teenage years, I have seen members of my family die from HIV in the 1990s, without us being able to do...

Meet Altine Traoré, midwife at Espace Confiance in Côte d’Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire SRHR STI

Meet Altine Traoré, midwife at Espace Confiance in Côte d’Ivoire

15 December 2025

Altine Traoré is a midwife at the Espace Confiance Drop-in Center in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Trained by Solthis as part of the POUVOIR project, she explains how she discovered her calling and why she chose this profession. Since I was a child, I wanted to become a doctor to help women. My parents dreamed of me becoming an engineer, but...

Meet Salamatu Jawara, HIV Nurse Counselor in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone HIV/AIDS

Meet Salamatu Jawara, HIV Nurse Counselor in Sierra Leone

4 December 2025

Salamatu Jawara is an HIV nurse counselor in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Trained by Solthis as part of the IMPAACT4HIV project, she tells us about how she found her calling and her daily life as a caregiver. Since childhood, I dreamed of becoming a doctor. For “African Child Day” at school, my mother would dress me in a white coat and...