Health care/HIV/AIDS
With the efforts of our passionate health workers, we are able to take care of Guardians and people living with HIV/AIDS. We are offering them home based care and weekly therapy sessions.
Home based care
Home based care is to visit the clients at their homes, when they are very sick and bedridden. The care includes washing the client, cooking and feed the client, general cleaning of the house for fresh air and cleaning the beddings. The nursing care includes wounds, mouth rash opportunistic infections if the client has some and giving drugs (ARVS) and finally counseling the client to live positively.
The purpose of the home based care is to make the client to accept the status from denial, fight the stigma and discrimination they meet and at the same time feel loved and cared about.
Weekly therapy sessions (support group)
From the home visitation and the home based care program, the health worker refer the client to the organization, to be part of the therapy session at the community centers Library, that we run every Friday for two hours, for the first six months. The program of the day is as follows:
1. Introduction of the clients and registration
2. Prayers and sharing of weekly progress and challenges
3. Topic of the day:
Treatment literacy and drug adherence
Importance of condom use and disposal
Acceptance and disclosure
Opportunistic infections
Importance of family planning, hospital delivery and child health care
Nutrition
4. Nutritional support for the clients by milk distribution, prayers and departure.
After the clients learned all this topics we introduce them to soap making in the same sixth month.
Follow-up visitation of the clients is done once a month during the six months period.
Small income generating activities
After the six months the client is introduced to be self reliant by tailoring or dress making, bead and peanut butter making. This activity is 2 hour sessions Monday and Wednesday afternoon every week.