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TropicalClinics Model Health Centers

last updated Jan 16, 2013

Overview

Implementation Partner(s): 
MAP International and Johnson & Johnson
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Stage: 
Pilot/startup 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: 
Out-of-pocket payments

Scale

Number of Clients Served: 
Over 3,652 people
Summary: 

TropicalClinics Model Health Centers aims to rehabilitate children from extreme malnutrition and vaccine-preventable diseases; treat and nurture HIV/AIDS patients to become productive members of the community; prevent mothers and babies from dying in childbirth; and offer preventive screenings through state-of-art medical centers in rural regions of Kenya.

Program goals/rationale: 

  1. Reduce extreme malnutrition in about 12 children per month

  2. Rehabilitate 35 HIV/AIDS patients per month to become productive members of the community

  3. Reduce infant and maternal deaths in about 38 pregnant women per month

  4. In the next 6 months, the center hopes to save the lives of over 70 children; over 200 HIV/AIDS patients; and over 230 women, and provide preventive care to over 20,000 patients.

Key program components: 

TropicalClinics will have an 80-bed medical and education center that will serve up to 500 patients per day. The Center will be the first clinic to offer state-of-art diagnostic tools, therapeutic treatment, and community outreach programs in the Kakamega region.

TropicalClinics provides medicine that will reduce the transfer of HIV infection from mother-to-child at birth; modern pre-natal and birthing healthcare to decrease the rate of pregnancy related deaths; and provisions to alleviate malnutrition and vaccine-preventable diseases in children.

They will also provide women with:

  • Skilled birth-preparedness counseling to prevent maternal mortality
  • Pap smear screening for cervical cancer
  • Mammogram screening for breast cancer

  • Urinalysis for vitamins, minerals and amino acid evaluation

  • Ultraviolet therapy to reduce mortality, morbidity and human suffering

The Health Units at TropicalClinics are: Antenatal/Pediatric; Surgical; Maternity; Nursing Department; Preventive Medicine/Wellness; Outpatient; Nutrition; Vaccination; Community Outreach Program.

Program history: 

TropicalClinics is a 501 (c) 3 U.S. Nonprofit Organization (and a Non-Governmental Organization in Kenya). The organization was founded by Margaret Kilibwa in 2004 to build one-of-a-kind health centers in rural areas of Africa and other developing nations.

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