Near the City, by the Lake
The parish of Lukuli, which hosts the clinic, is located 5km from the centre of Kampala and in sight of Lake Victoria. The community includes farmers of smallholdings of land, sole traders and families who travel into Kampala for employment. The population of the clinic’s closest council area number 12,000 based on the last census (2001), part of 53,000 people living within 2km of the clinic. The nearest Government health facility (Kiruddu health centre) is over 5km from the clinic. Whilst the wealthy and more mobile people tend to choose larger clinics in the city, few private or government centres serve this poorer urban population. Lukuli-Nanganda, our village’s name, is part of the Lukuli-Konge Parish in Makindye administrative Division of Kampala.

In May 2008, as a preview to the HIV Implementers Conferencce, Nation Television (NTV) dedicated its weekly health feature to the work of Hope Clinic. The report, by Leah Bwanika, included interviews with patients, coverage of the clinic and comment from the Director General of the Uganda Aids Commission Dr Apuuli. The report can be viewed here.[It is a 3MB Quicktime file and also works in Real Player but not Windows Media Player].

Lake Victoria	Rural reality of life	The community we serve

As we start 2011, having passed the tenth anniversary of Hope Clinic Lukuli's founding Lukuli and the whole of Kampala has changed with several mobile phone operators, tarmac roads, many flashy cars and lots of night life. In Lukuli, the power supply is a bit better, the road for 2 miles (3.3km) to the nearest larger hospital is tarmaced. In general health terms across Uganda, new malaria drugs (ACT) are available on the market and HIV programmes are common-place. But, our community is now close to 100,000 people, many houses are unchanged in terms of their condition, there are many more people chasing fewer jobs, and casual work is hard to find. Food prices rose 10% during 2009 and now are 30% higher so every household is affected. Hope Clinic Lukuli tries to not add to that burden, our price to see Omusawo (medic) remains as it was before we opened the new facility in 2005: Shs 1,000 or the price of a meal cooked at home. Please help us keep our prices to the low level needed by our community.