Our group supports people living with HIV in Tachkent since 2006
Our History Since 2006, we are working with AIDs children and their familiy. We offer psychological advice and counceling, trainings and non-medical help.
Members of our Team
Training “Non-medical care for HIV-positive children”
with
liders of Initiative
Groups of PLWH from 7 Regions of Uzbekistan !
Children room is in Day care Centre
“Swallow”
A short review of our programms :
- home based nursing
- Psychological help and councelling
- Trainings for people living with HIV and their family
- non-medical care support to HIV children and their familiy members
We think about expansion of
services for HIV-positive children and their families in the region of
Uzbekistan, in particular to the Ferghana valley.
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Project,
financed by Central
Asia AIDS Control Project CAAP “Rendering non-medical care and support for HIV-positive children
and their family’s members” |
Goal of the project:
Improvement
of the level of life
of HIV-positive children by rendering services on non-medical care,
support and
expension of access to the treatment of ART.
The present project is the first in Uzbekistan aimed at the realization of complex aid to HIV-positive children and members of their families, which will improve the level of life of HIV-positive children, ruled by experience and exchange of information among members of HIV-positive children’s families, medical specialists and social workers- members of multidiscipline teams by means of regular and coordinated team work on granting services for non-medical care, support, treatment of ART for HIV-positive children.
Tasks
of the
project:
- Improving
of
specialists
potential
and
families in
the sphere
of
rendering non-medical care for
HIV-positive
children;
- Maintenance
of services for the close ones of HIV-positive
children;
- Provide
of the level of preparation of the close ones of HIV-positive children
for ART treatment.
Measures
of
the project:
1. Training
of
the
project staff
and
specialists
on
rendering
non-medical
care
for
HIV-positive
children;
2. Preparation
of close ones of HIV-positive
children
for
ART
treatment;
3. Provide
of the level of being informed
of close ones of
HIV-positive
children
on the
problems of
treatment,
care,
support through
conducting individual
consultations, based
on “peer to peer”
principle,
telephone consultations, by giving consultations of the project specialists: social
workers, psychologist
and phthisiopediatrist;
4. Improvement
of psycho emotional state of
close ones of
HIV-positive
children,
by means of
conducting groups
of mutual aid for
the close
ones of HIV-positive
children;
5. Design
out of
IEM and
methodological
materials as well for rendering
services to
HIV-positive
children;
6. Rendering
psychosocial
aid to
HIV-positive children’s
families;
7. Rendering
client management of
HIV-positive
children to
medical and social
offices;
8. Rendering
of
home patronage;
9. Lobby
to adaptation of WHO
Protocol on
granting palliative aid to
PLWH;
10. Formation
of
the
data
base of clients users of the project services.
Target
groups
of the project:
- HIV-positive children and close ones, specialists, rendering services for HIV-positive children
(ART and
care).
Beneficiary
of
the project:
- HIV-positive
children and their close ones.
Geography
of
the project:
Partners of the project:
1.
2.
Scientific
Research Institut of Pediatrics (SRI of Pediatrics);
3. Scientific
Research Institut of Virology (SRI of Virology);
4. Legal
Clinic
“Asia-Europe
Consult”.
The most noticeable events for the last years
· February 2009
– the
membership of
multidiscipline teams is
defined
on the basis of RAC, SRI
of Pediatrics,
SRI
of Virology,
· March 2009
–
Day
care Centre for HIV-positive children and families affected by HIV
“Swallow”
was opened. Multidiscipline
teams
MDT began functioning.
· April 2009
– there
was
held
the training with the participation
of
international consultant Olga Panfilova
“Non-medical
care for HIV-positive children” for the staff of the project
and liders of
Initiative Groups of PLWH in 7 Regions of Uzbekistan.
· May 2009 - early 2010 - actually achievement of the put tasks of project.
· 2009 - 2010 -
we fulfilled the opening of three new daycare centers in three
different regions of Uzbekistan (and we are still building our network
of HIV prevention, in collaboration with 7 other HIV / AIDS centers of
Uzbekistan).
Services of the project:
(are
rendered by the
members of MDT:
social workers, nurses,
pediatrists, outreach workers on the basis of the RAC,
SRI of
Pediatrics, SRI of Virology,
Day care
Centre
“Swallow”):
· Education
of
close ones of
HIV-positive
children to the
skills of care;
· Consulting on
the problems of children’s
adherence to ART;
· Educative sessions
for the
close ones of HIV-positive children on
the
preparation for
the adoption of ART
and formation of
adherence of
HIV-positive children;
· Consultations of
social worker on the
life
with HIV and reception of
status on
the “peer
to peer” principle;
· Consultations of
psychologist;
· Education-training
activity with
children’s psychologist for HIV-positive
children (group
of pre-school
preparation and another);
· Consultations of
a lower;
· Consultations of
a doctor-pediatrist;
· Consultations of
phthisiopediatrist;
· Mutual
aid group
for close ones of HIV-positive
children;
· Accompaniment
and
help in
hospitalization of HIV-positive
children into
medical and
other
clinics;
· Home
patronage of
HIV-positive
children by social
workers of the
project;
· Telephone
line
functioning on the problems of
HIV/AIDS
+99897 494 01 60;
· Transportation
of HIV- positive children to medical
prevention offices;
· Distribution
food stuff
rations for HIV-positive
children;
· Spreading
of IEM for the close ones of HIV-positive
children.
Provide of the level of preparation of the
close ones of HIV-positive
children for ART treatment;
At
present regular educative sessions and
individual consultations
on
“peer
to
peer”
principle
are
held
for
the
HIV-positive
children’s families
members by the social workers
of the project concerning ART and
other problems.
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In 2008, the general number of beneficials of the project was 840 persons, of which 410 positive children and 430 adults !
In 2009, we fullfilled the opening of three new children and family daycare centers in three different regions of Uzbekistan. |
Successes
- Close
and regular contact
with the clients;
- Claim
and active presence
of clients at
- Presence
and work of MDT;
- Constantly
functioning mutual aid group for the families of HIV-positive
children.
