HIV Prevention Education
Health is a major component of Bishop Masereka Christian Foundation ministry in Midwestern Uganda. It includes the program for the prevention of HIV/AIDS. We provide HIV prevention education in the community, in churches, and in schools for older students. We provide on going counselling for HIV/AIDS clients, and home based care for clients.
At the moment we are assisting over 200 HIV clients with ongoing counselling via BMCF Clinic. We offer daily HIV testing in the community as part of our routine work. BMCF health program also provides service delivery in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV, (PMTCT). All our medical staff at the BMCF Clinic are trained in HIV/AIDS work.
The monthly attendance at the Clinic ranges from 450 to 650 people, children and adults. Malaria and HIV/AIDS are the biggest killers in many health units, including BMCF Clinic. Our plan is for the Clinic to offer very good quality service delivery in the community. Efficient and effective services do lack in many health units in the region. At the moment BMCF Clinic has very good staff persons, and we plan to build the capacity of the staff, and to equip the laboratory and the diagnostics section well beyond the average.
BMCF Clinic requires a haematology analyser, and a biochemistry analyser. The Clinic also requires a regular and consistent supply of HIV testing kits. BMCF Clinic now has a fulltime Medical Officer,( Dr. Daniel Sambili) and is preparing to start administering ARVs to the people who need it. We urgently need a reliable source of supply of the drug.
There are several supporters and prayer friends who are involved in BMCF ministry in the region, and we value their great contributions. It is our prayer that God will continue blessing this important ministry of responding to the serious impact of HIV, and fighting it with it’s related stigma, shame, and discrimination in some communities.