The Home Based Care Project
HBC was started in 1979 in a small way by visiting the sick in the community and today it’s a big project within the health programme serving more than 650 clients every year covering around 15 communities (Kisumu peri Urban)
Our main objective is to provide holistic care to both infected and affected people with HIV&AIDS with a vision of giving hope and dignified death to these clients.

Activities
1. Home visits
The project has volunteers who identify clients in the homes by the help of the community members, family members, community leaders and Church leaders. They receive referrals from the Hospitals and support centers. Daily home visits are conducted to assess the needs of the clients, offer care and advice and refer them to necessary Institutions. The nurse carries out home visits too and gives treatment to the clients found with opportunistic infection, psychological support, social support, adherence support are given during the visits.

2. Community Mobilization
The Home Based care workers and the nurse educate the community on the importance of home based care, prevention of HIV&AIDS importance of VCT and PITC, importance of early hospital care during different forums to include chiefs Barazas, Church gatherings and other social gatherings

3. Involvement of the whole family in care
During visits we encourage parents to take their children for testing so that these children are not left without care. Those who turn positive are referred to start care early.

4. Referral and Networking
Referral are made  to KUAP projects like Nutrition, clinical service, PSC, Child counseling for care or we refer them to other Hospital and organizations, support groups where they can receive the care that we cannot provide

5. Psychosocial counseling
Clients have other social issues that affects their life these are poverty, ignorance, stigma and discrimination, disclosure issues, cultural and religion issues that need re-assurance and counseling for them to comply with care.

6. Economic Empowerment
For the clients who have lost their job they are train on entrepreneurship skills and small capital given to them to start up small businesses so that they can coup with life and get back to their previous states of life

7. Trainings
Trainings are carried out to the community members in skills of home based care and refresher trainings on different topics to train home based care workers to sharpen their skills. Caregivers are trained on entrepreneurship skills

Activities to be done in the next three Months

• Provision of HBC services through follow up visits mobile clinic by HBCW, TOTS and Nurse
• Provision of nursing care to bedridden clients and treatment of all clients with other infection and maintain patient hygiene through provision of HBC kits to caregivers to assist them in care
• Provision of psychosocial care, nutrition care and health education and adherence support to clients on ARVs, sept, mlvit and TB treatment
• Organize community mobilization on importance of HBC services and prevention of HIV & AIDS
• To refer clients who need other services within KUAP and outside KUAP to other organization