Welcome
to the Hope Clinic Lukuli, serving the Community of Lukuli in
Kampala, Uganda. We are approaching our tenth anniversary of serving
the community.
If
you would like to help us now, please follow these links for instructions
to a UK bank and a Gift Aid form. Thank you for taking action
to help us. Letter
to Bank Gift Aid
Form If you are outside the UK, the account details can remain
the same but your local bank may have its own forms. Use the banking
information of our account with Lloyds TSB if you are an online
bank user.
In
March 2006 we were assessed and found to meet the criteria for
accreditation by the Ministry of Health as an Antiretroviral Treatment
Centre for HIV. Since September 2006 we have held a fortnightly
clinic for people living with HIV/AIDS in cooperation with the
Joint Clinical Research Centre, JCRC. It is a quasi-governmental
entity which significantly was the first source of ARVs to Uganda.
From December 2006 to April 2007 we also implemented the Stay
Alive youth health information programme with funding from Until
There's A Cure. With the programme we reached 7 schools and over
2,400 children aged 9 to 14 years. In March 2007 we received our
first grant from the Government of Uganda in recognition and support
of our work and are now recognised as a Health Centre III by the
Kampala City Council. The grant supports staff costs, provides
about 15% of our drug costs and an additional stock of the new
malaria medication, called ACT, which we can now provide free
to our community. This link Weekly
Observer is a report on the clinic published in Uganda in
April 2008 and leading independent daily featured our work in
May 2008 - The Daily Monitor
The clinic was taken on by the current management with the intention
of providing high quality medical services and a broad range of
care to the poorer sections of the community living in Lukuli
and the surrounding area. The clinic is sustainable through the
nominal charging for consultations with the trained medical staff
and the resale of drugs at close to wholesale cost price. We are
supported by members of the community and friends around Uganda
and abroad. The 'History' page carries more information with the
rationale and need described on the 'Makindye Community' page.
As we expanded our free to client services to include HIV, child
immunisation and family planning we seek sponsorship of staff
and services to maintain the subsidised pricing.
Working
with the local councils, Kampala City, national and international
NGO and initiatives we have grown to the size of a small hospital,
designated a Health Centre grade III in Uganda. Patients number
700 a month for General Practice consultations and care with over
400 additional clients for immunisation, ante-natal consultations
or HIV counselling or testing.
The
management of the committee is led by two women as co-chair who
are assisted by three women and four men, all bar two of whom
are Ugandans. We were recently commended by the Face
of Afrika blog. The profiles of these people are included
on the 'Management Committee' page.
Our key services are:
- Ante-natal examinations and advice;
- Assessing the risks for labour;
- Post-natal care and neo-natal monitoring;
- Advice to mothers and fathers;
- Providing immunisation and supplements (This is a FREE service);
- Paediatric care and development advice;
- General Practise medical consultations;
- Counselling for family planning (This is a FREE service);
- Counselling for HIV and other STDs, and testing (This is a FREE
service);
- Laboratory services including malaria tests;
- Advice on hygiene, safe water and treatment of related diseases
in adults and children.
Our
new premises were built through donations from the management
committee members, friends and the business community in Kampala
who recognised the worth of the clinic
We can be contacted at clinic@hcluganda.org
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