ACTIVITIES
MdM is aiming to help improve primary healthcare, particularly for pregnant women and children, in three hospitals and 23 clinics in the district. The activities include training nurses, improving the supply of medicines and refurbishment. An ambulance service has also been introduced. MdM is also supporting the decentralisation of HIV testing and treatment for both HIV and opportunistic infections. The district hospital, now autonomous, and five new clinics have been accredited to be able to provide treatment.
At the community level, the focus is on home-based care and the creation of nutritional gardens for people living with HIV, awareness-raising among young people and care for vulnerable orphans (provided by the ‘grandmothers of the heart’). This work helps to reduce stigma, to increase the uptake of tests and to improve adherence to treatment programmes.
RESULTS 223 caesarians have been carried out. 356 health agents and 125 nurses have been trained. 25,147 people have been tested for HIV and 1,570 orphans supported.
OUTLOOK MdM plans to consolidate this integrated mother and child health programme to improve the quality, availability and access to maternal and child health services (including HIV services) and, therefore, to increase the number of children receiving antiretroviral treatment. A new programme in the poor and overcrowded areas of Harare is being considered
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Life expectancy : 47 yrs
IDH : 0.140 ; rang : 169/169 *
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