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Malawi Home-based Care Kits for People Living with HIV/AIDS

Contents of the Kit


 


What is the need?

Malawi’s 850,000 people living with AIDS need cost effective, palliative care to improve quality and length of life. The nation’s healthcare system is struggling to cope with overcrowded and understaffed hospitals. The health community has concluded that clinic-based care for all persons living with AIDS is not a possibility.
 
According to UNAIDS, Malawi’s prevalence rate is 15%, including nearly 65,000 children.

What is the solution?

Malawi must implement a system of home-based care in which community volunteers are trained in hygiene, nutrition, and psychosocial support. Caregivers require supplies needed to care for people living with HIV/AIDS, as well as protect themselves from the infection. These resources include basic items such as soap, gloves, bandages and simple painkillers.

Project Objectives

With the assistance of donations in the form of cash or in-kind items, the project will train and provide volunteer community caregivers with 360 home-based care kits (value $800 each) benefiting 1,800 people living with AIDS in 28 project areas. Caregivers have a coordinator with a health care background who provides support and supervision. Caregiver training includes:
  • Monitoring of child well-being (including health, nutrition, and psychosocial status)
  • Emergency nutritional support when necessary and available
  • Healthful nutrition practices
  • Self-protection from HIV/AIDS
  • Mother-to-child transmission and prevention education
  • Palliative care to reduce physical suffering through basic medicines and/or traditional remedies

Project Duration:
Ongoing

2005 Funding Need
$288,000*

*Can be funded partially or in full.

CONTENTS OF THE KITS

World Vision seeks to provide three types of kits:
Kit provided once to a community caregiver:
1. Waterproof carry bag
2. Caregiver’s notebook
3. Stainless steel hand basin
4. Stainless steel receivers
5. Stainless steel gallipots
6. 2.5-liter container (for storage of oral rehydration therapy)
7. Pair of scissors
8. Rain coat
9. Umbrella
10. Paraffin lantern
11. Bicycle

Kit provided once per quarter to community caregiver:
1. Plastic sheet (1 square meter)
2. Plastic apron
3. Hand towel
4. Disposable gloves (50 pairs)
5. Heavy duty gloves
6. Oral rehydration therapy (50 packets)
7. Antiseptic soap (2 bars)
8. Antiseptic liquid household disinfectant (500 ml)
9. Concentrated heavy duty household disinfectant (1 liter)
10. Methylated spirit (500 ml)
11. Petroleum jelly (500 ml)
12. Calamine lotion (2.5 liters)
13. Tetracycline eye ointment (5 tubes)
14. Cotton wool (2 x 500gm)
15. Cotton swabs/gauze (box of 100)
16. Cotton bandages (all sizes), 10 x 5 cm
17. Zinc oxide plaster (3 rolls)
18. Benzyl benzoate (2.5 liters)
19. High energy protein supplement (50 kg)
20. Garlic tablets (1,000)
21. Vitamin A tablets (10,000)

Home-based care supplies to be provided once a quarter for storage at a community health facility:
1. Aspirin, 500 tablets
2. Paracetamol, 500 tablets
3. Antibiotics
- Septrin, 100 tablets
- Metronidazole, 100 tablets
- Cloxacillin syrup, 5 x 100 ml
4. Anti malverdana drugs
- Sulfadoxine/ Pyrimethamine (Fansidar), 1,100 tablets
- Quinine, 100 tablets/capsules
- Sulfadoxine /Pyrimethamine, 5 x100 ml (syrup)
5. Anti fungal
- Nystatin lozenges, 500 tablets
- Gentian Violet, 25g (powder)
- Miconazole, 100 tablets
- Miconazole syrup, 5 x 100 ml
6. Antihistamines
- Piriton 2mg x 100 tablets
7. Multi-vitamin, 100 tablets
8. Vitamin B complex, 100 tablets
9. Vitamin B6, 100 tablets
10. Ascorbic Acid, 100 tablets
11. Anti-acid magnesium trisilicate, 100 tablets
12. Needles
- G21 (for adults)
- G23 (for children), 100 needles
13. Syringes
- 2 ml, 100 units
- 5 ml, 100 units



 

 

 

 

 

 

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