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Our
services and growth has been the subject of several newspaper
and film reports
Hope
Clinic Lukuli is a rare organisation in that whilst many
of its components occur in other countries they are rarely
found together and maintain that success for more than
ten years.
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Founded by people living in the community it serves.
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Managed
by people who do not seek and do not make personal income
from its existence.
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Guided
by community members with no medical background working
in collaboration with locally trained medical staff
and community leaders.
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Deliberately
pricing its services to minimise the barriers that the
low and very low income households face to access health
information and services.
- Growing
the management skills of the employees and thereby ensuring
that the clinic's services can be maintained with reducing
support from the founders.
- Offering
the primary healthcare services that the community needs
- and doing so in close collaboration with the local government
health department
- Integrating
maternal health, child immunisation and development, fever
management and malaria treatment and a comprehensive HIV
service in a single facility with community outreach services.
- Achieving
financial self-sufficiency for these services through
fair pricing to the community and cross-subsidy to offer
free preventative and information services, low cost diagnosis
and fair priced treatment.
- Bridging
the huge range in scale between global programmes such
as PEPFAR and the Global Fund with the individuals in
Lukuli and Makindye to bring internationally supported
health to the beneficiaries they want to help
These
achievements are captured in the following media reports
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In
2008 The Monitor newspaper's Eve
Mashoo prepared a report on out work contrasting
the clinic's facility to the overcrowded Mulago Hospital.
Another report in the Weekly Observer by Moses Talemwa
noted, "Patients pay Shs 2,000 for admission,
and the clinic may carry out normal deliveries at a
paltry Shs 30,000! Compare this to Shs 300,000 for a
normal delivery at Rubaga Hospital, and Shs 450,000
at Mulago Hospital’s elite 6th floor ward!
It’s
free service in the general maternity ward on the fifth
floor at Mulago, but without support services such as
clean accommodation and food, as well as access to specialist
doctors! Nsambya
Hospital on the other hand charges about Shs 250,000
for normal delivery in the general ward. According to
Ministry of Health records for Makindye Division, Hope
Clinic delivers 15 babies every month. Twenty women
are presently registered on the antenatal programme,
while about 12 babies are receiving neonatal care right
now. The clinic has 10 beds spread through three wards."
Since
2008, we grew to 60 ANCs a month and 20 deliveries.
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In
2010, CNN visited the clinic to meet clients and to
hear about the impact on HIV service provision of the
change in contractors in Uganda for the US PEPFAR funding.
Hope Clinic has had to manage the start and stop of
internationally funded programmes over the past years
and so our patients were not significantly affected
by the 'flat lining' that was reported. The featured
client did not need ART at that time, and was accessing
care and support at the facility. With the new contractor
in place, she and all our HIV positive clients do access
free lab testing of samples for CD-4 and viral
load to help our staff monitor their case. CNN
report The friend, Margaret, had spoken to the Nation
TV in Uganda in 2008 and has been interviewed by the
newspapers.
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in 2010, Jackie
Ampire was able to access PMTCT at Hope Clinic Lukuli
Pregnant with her first baby, Jackie Ampire discovered
that she was HIV-positive after a visit last July to the
Hope Clinic Lukuli, in the outskirts of Uganda’s
capital Kampala. She had stepped inside this local NGO
for the first time to receive a prenatal examination and
was encouraged by a counselor to have an HIV test. “I
was so hurt and worried about how I could tell this to
my husband,” Mrs. Ampire recalled. “I didn’t
want to lose my baby. But a counselor told me how I could
give birth to a healthy baby and continue my life with
HIV treatment.” [Read
More,
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