Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 2001. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
 |
New Vision (Uganda) - August 23, 2001
Charles Wendo
Mrs. Ruth Sims, Director of the Jajja's Home, a day-care centre that looks after children with AIDS at Mildmay, said the children are below 14 years. They receive medicines, food, nutritional supplements, counselling and access educational and playing facilities of the day care centre.
Speaking to The New Vision during the launching of the second unit of the day care centre, Sims said the oldest of the children, who was born with HIV, has lived with the virus for 14 years. She has lost both parents.
Sims said the Mildmay Centre on the Kampala-Entebbe road, receives mostly children who are seriously ill but many of them are able to improve and go back to school.
"Out of 56 children that we had on the programme until the end of March, nineteen recovered and went back to school. The others either died or their relatives took them away to the villages," she said.
The State minister for health, Mike Mukula, presided over the ceremony. He said the ministry had allocated the children's centre sh150m this financial year. Sims, whom the children have nicknamed Jajja (granny), said new unit built for the age group below five years would take additional 20 children. She said 30 children are already accommodated at the unit for those aged 6 - 12 and a third unit would be constructed for children aged 12 - 18.
She said the centre finds school fees for children who become healthy enough to go back to school.
010823
NV010812
Copyright © 2001 - The New Vision. All articles are republished on AEGIS by permission. Material may not be redistributed, posted to any other location, published or used for broadcast without written authorization from Managing Director/Editor-in-chief, The New Vision, P.O. Box 9815, Kampala - Uganda, Tel/fax: 256-41-235221, E-mail: wpike@newvision.co.ug.
AEGiS is made possible through unrestricted grants from Boehringer Ingelheim, Elton John AIDS Foundation, iMetrikus, Inc., John M. Lloyd Foundation, the National Library of Medicine, and donations from users like you. Always watch for outdated information. This article first appeared in 2001. This material is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between you and your doctor.
AEGiS presents published material, reprinted with permission and neither endorses nor opposes any material. All information contained on this website, including information relating to health conditions, products, and treatments, is for informational purposes only. It is often presented in summary or aggregate form. It is not meant to be a substitute for the advice provided by your own physician or other medical professionals. Always discuss treatment options with a doctor who specializes in treating HIV.
Copyright ©1980, 2001. AEGiS. All materials appearing on AEGiS are protected by copyright as a collective work or compilation under U.S. copyright and other laws and are the property of AEGiS, or the party credited as the provider of the content. .