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AIDS Barefoot Doctors (ABD)

last updated Jan 16, 2013

Overview

Implementing organization: 
SOTENI International
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2006
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Government
Funders: 
African Medical and Research Foundation, Anglican Church of Kenya, Danish International Development Agency, Kenya Ministry of Health, Kenya National AIDS Control Council

Scale

Other Measures of Scale: 
ABD conducted approximately 370 group education sessions.
Summary: 

AIDS Barefoot Doctors (ABD) program contributes to breaking the cycle of poverty and AIDS in identified rural villages in Kenya whereby community members can become leaders in the fight against the disease through healthcare training. ABDs are not physicians, but community health workers who provide home-based care and group therapy and education to people living with HIV/AIDS.

Program goals/rationale: 

  • Improving awareness and access to HIV information among 10,000 couples

  • Equipping 12 couples as trainers of trainers with updated information on HIV/AIDS-prevention methods

  • Increasing the number of couples trained and equipped with knowledge of HIV/AIDS prevention and prevention of parent-to-child transmission

  • Distributing more than 20,000 condoms among adult couples within the constituency

  • Reducing HIV/AIDS infection among couples by 10%

Key program components: 

ABDs provide home-based care, support, and disease-prevention messages to People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and members of their households in SOTENI Village of Hope (SVH) Mituntu, SVH–Mbakalo, and SVH-Ugenya. To become ABDs, trainees receive education in first aid, elementary primary care, household hygiene, community public health, HIV prevention, how to refer patients to local healthcare providers, programmatic reporting, and business practices. The trainees include orphans and PLWHA.

Program history: 

SOTENI Kenya (SK) is a registered Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). They collaborate with SOTENI International and the SOTENI Villages of Hope to promote and implement projects and programs.

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