AIDS Barefoot Doctors (ABD)
AIDS Barefoot Doctors (ABD)
Not-for-profit
Year launched: 2006Target geography
Target Population
Target income level
- Bottom 20%
Health focus
- HIV/AIDS
CHMI PLUS Status
Profile Completeness Rating
Monitoring & Evaluation Reporting
Summary
AIDS Barefoot Doctors (ABD) contributes to breaking the cycle of poverty and AIDS in rural villages in Kenya. ABDs are not physicians, but community members/health workers who become leaders and provide home-based care and group therapy and education to people living with HIV/AIDS.Program goals
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. 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.
Financials
Parent Organizations
- SOTENI InternationalNot-for-profit