Hope
Clinic Lukuli uses 'hosted referrals' to bring needed
services to the community through partners
Our
beginnings in maternal care and fever management started
our model for hosted referrals
with negotiations to bring St Francis hospital at Nsambya
for child immunisation, AIDS Information Centre for counselling
and testing and Straight Talk for youth engagement. Our
HIV service coordinates
PEPFAR, Global Fund and Government resources through
a series of agreements as the only method to bring comprehensive,
integrated services to a location. Sadly, although all
our work is planned in response to Uganda's national policy
and strategy, donor interventions are typically very vertical
in nature. That leaves hosted
referrals as our solution to
bring it all together.
Implementers
have target audiences and interventions to deliver and
goals to achieve - Hope Clinic Lukuli has been
commended by PEPFAR
and bilateral embassy grant programmes for our contributions
to their goals. They made direct awards to the clinic
- three times from PEPFAR
for HIV service delivery, three times from Belgian
Development Agency (BTC)
for capital improvements for the youth services.
We
have been a research site for the
Malaria Consortium for re-treatment of mosquito nets
with K-O Tab 1-2-3. We had client service support from
UHMG, over-branded information leaflets from Business
PART (for Aggreko). In relation to HIV, we partner with
UHMG to access test kits and with PSI/ PACE for the Basic
Care Package. With JCRC we have received capacity development
support in client case management and record keeping and
now contribute lab test samples to their THALAS
laboratory programme. The Infectious Disease Institute
is a new partner initiative with PEPFAR funds. Rotary
President
Tanaka visiting the clinic in August 2012, commended
Rotarian support which began in 2004 with Cheltenham Cleeve
Vale and Makindye Club and a matching grant.
Our
finance staff, technical clinicians, community outreach
staff and monitoring, evaluation and reporting staff are
familiar with PEPFAR, Ministry of Health and general grant
reporting. Hosted Referrals
has worked for these partners and certainly works for
our community. We maintain statistics and proof of impact
reports as well as the standard Uganda HMIS compliance
returns. Our Community benefits, as do Your Targets and
Goals. Email the
Clinic
