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ALDO Project

last updated Apr 25, 2012

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Hands of Help
Implementation Partner(s): 
International Medical Group
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2008
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%, 20-60% (lower to lower-middle)

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
In-kind contributions
Summary: 

The project works in the community, with the community, giving preventative education, counseling, testing and treatment and making life-saving antiretroviral medication accessible by those affected with HIV/AIDS.

Program goals/rationale: 

The project aims at expanding free HIV testing in Lira, and follow-up all HIV-positive individuals with the appropriate laboratory tests required as well as providing access to the life-saving antiretroviral medications (ARVs), which can so easily and effectively change a person's life.

Key program components: 

The ARVs are distributed through a closely monitored home-based care program to ensures excellent compliance and follow-up among individuals in the program. Patients who receive home visits are normally those who are too weak or ill to visit the clinic and receive services like one-on-one counseling and advice on positive living and related issues; home-based provision of medication and clinical care which is done in collaboration with the clinical officers from the Clinic; and health education related to HIV/AIDS.

Program history: 

The Lira district of Northern Uganda is home to over 700,000 people who have spent 20 years under a constant state of insurgency due to the activity of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which saw 44% of the population living in IDP camps. Health statistics in this region are hence amongst the most deplorable in Uganda and soaring rates of HIV infection are not effectively being addressed due to a lack of resources to do so.

Hands of Help in collaboration with the International Medical Group(IMG) initiated the ALDO project to provide a home-based HIV program in Lira. The project was named in honor of an HIV patient who died at the clinic in Lira while Hands of Help volunteers were implementing this project in December 2007, due to a lack of access to life-saving antiretroviral medication.

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