Pediatric HIV Care

This comprehensive program provides food, medicines and a package of life saving health care servcies to 500 HIV positive children living in an impoverished community in Lusaka, Zambia.  The package of health care services includes regular home visits from a health worker/Nurse, monitoring of adherance to HIV medication, adherence training for older children, psychosocial counseling, and education in HIV prevention. In addition, family members are trained in caring for an HIV positive child. This ensures that the child is under the care of a trained caregiver 24/7.

Our model of care is a unique community-based approach developed to take advantage of Africa's most valuable resource, its family network, to provide comprehensive care for HIV infected infants and children. This model was developed in partnership with MIT's D-Lab, and the Harvard School of Public Health. Our unique approach has resulted in our working with community members for the last 17 years and are now embedded in the community. 

Our mission is to build AIDS free and sustainable communities. Even though, providing cost-effective care for children living with HIV in resource strapped sub-Saharan Africa is a significant challenge, we believe that we can end AIDS by 2030. Ending AIDS will generate profound health and economic benefits globally. The African countries will see a significant increase in GDP and ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being at all ages will put the world on the path to sustainable development as envisioned by the UN Sustainable Development goals for 2030. 

Our goal is to build families that are stronger and more self-reliant in taking care of their own health. To help make our mission a reality, the goals for this program are: (i) prevent new HIV infections, (ii) to provide high quality continuous care to HIV+ children so that they never delop AIDS, and (iii) provide training in HIV prevention and care to family members.