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Welcome to the Hope Clinic Lukuli, serving the Community of Lukuli in Kampala, Uganda. We have now completed over seven years of growth and service.

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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. From September 2006 we began 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. 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.

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;

- 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.

We can be contacted at clinic@hcluganda.org

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