Home Care

Coniah Home Care (CHC) is a department of Coniah Medical Complex. That was established by Mr. Droma Justine in March 2020 to primarily decongest the clinics of HIV patients. The main beneficiaries are the poor women and children living with HIV, their families, and the communities in Central Equatorial State; KajoKeji, Lainya, Morobo, Terekeka, Maridi, Yambio, Tore, Mukaya, Kaya, and Yei With HIV prevalence of 6.5% among adults of a population of 2,000,000 people. CHC’s overall objective is; to provide with love holistic Home-Based Care quality services to HIV/AIDS infected and affected persons that delight them, their families, and communities.
Through its holistic HIV services delivery facility-based and Home-Based services, and support with various community linkages; over 1,600 patients and their families have been served since inception. CHC has a total of 931 (210 adolescents) patients on anti-retroviral drugs. The total number of adolescents includes those not yet eligible for ARVs is 90. CHC provides these adolescents with free medical care including ARVs, nutrition support during clinic visits, educational support in form fees for primary education and apprenticeship training, entrepreneurship skills training, and startup capital for their families.
CHC created an adolescent clinic that runs on Fridays; it runs a monthly Adolescent voice Newsletter that has contributed to experience sharing. Human resource capacity built; 25 youth, 10 couples, and 10 adolescents trained as trainers of trainees and staff in programming. NHC initiated the “expert patients” model, 50 Community Volunteers who complement health service delivery at CHC. The organization has addressed behavior change beyond AB for the youth and couples; over 1,000 youth and over 34 couples have been trained using the Value of Life and Faithful House curriculum respectively. CHC Has two clinics:

1. The HIV/AIDs Clinic
2. The TB Clinic Services offered at CHC.