Support AIDS-Affected Households with Food
SummaryThis project will distribute food to 200 children and 500 breastfeeding mothers who have stopped taking anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) due to lack of food. Without food, they do not take ARVs. |
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The project will address lack of access to food among AIDS patients. It will specifically benefit children and breastfeeding mothers on ARVs.
Activities
-Provide nutritious food stuffs to children and breastfeeding mothers on ARVs. -Conduct sensitization sessions on nutrition for children and breastfeeding mothers on ARVs and their care givers
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $4,611
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $55,389
Total Funding Goal: $60,000
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This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The project will enable these patients get energy and be able to grow their own food during the rainy season.The project will enable the patients continue taking the ARVs to improve their health.
Project Message
"Famine has led to AIDS patients to stop taking ARVs. The worst affected are breastfeeding mothers and yound children on ARVs. The hospital has registered registere 9 deaths owing to lack of food"
- Dr. Katumba SSentongo, District Health Officer
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Stephen Ssenkima
Director
racobaouganda@racobao.org
sssenkima@racobao.org
Lyantonde, Uganda P. O Box 4, Lyantonde
Uganda
+256392721324
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Project Sponsor
Organization
Rakai Community Based AIDS Organization
5.5914/7169 PO Box 4
Lyantonde,
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Uganda
+256 392721324
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Uganda
and can also be found under 
Disaster Recovery.
For more information about Uganda, read the Human Development Report on Uganda or the Wikipedia entry for Uganda.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 11, 2009
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