Health
Caring Partners Global partners with the Matangwe Clinic to provide:
- HIV/AIDS Education;
- Counseling;
- Testing and Treatment;
- Pre and Postnatal care; and
- In and Outpatient Care
This is made possible through qualified local health care professionals and volunteers from within Kenya and abroad.
CPG has worked with the MCHDP to operate the Matangwe Clinic since its establishment in 2001. The Matangwe Clinic is no longer just a walk-in clinic. Through the hard work of Matangwe staff, the clinic achieved accreditation status from the Kenyan Ministry of Health in 2010. This achievement resulted in an upgrade from a health centre to a hospital status. This has opened more opportunities for partnerships with the Ministry of Health and other NGO’s. Matangwe can now expand the much needed inpatient services beyond stabilization and maternal childcare. The community’s vision is to expand diagnostic and testing services to implement minor surgical procedures with a goal to improving access to effective and efficient testing, investigations and treatment close to home.
Admitted patients who subscribe to government cost-share based health insurance can now use their coverage at Matangwe Clinic. Ongoing work continues with the Ministry of Health to improve outpatient insurance coverage. The ability to offer services to insurance holders helps the MCHDP to recover some of the cost to buy medications and provide treatment.
While health insurance is made available on a cost-share basis, many community members are still unable to afford the annual fee of $30 per household of four. CPG is committed to establishing a priority focus a sponsorship program for health insurance so that the vulnerable and needy do not have to choose between the basic needs of healthcare and food. Our goal is to sponsor 100 households annually with priority on older women with orphan households and pregnant mothers and infants.
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Matangwe continues to forge national partnerships to meet the community’s health care needs. The International Centre for AIDS Care (ICAP) provides resources for treatment, management and support groups of people living with HIV/AIDS. HIV service volumes increased from a group of 50 in 2010 to 700 adults and children in January of 2011. Stigma and access to antiretroviral drugs is no longer a barrier to this informed, engaged and proactive community group.
A partnership between the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and the Matangwe Funeral home is underway to support advancing research in HIV/AIDS through post-mortem findings of HIV/AIDS victims. This potential collaboration is a step to improving care and treatment of HIV/AIDS as well as raising the profile of Matangwe Cinic as a centre of excellence in maternal child and HIV/AIDS care.
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