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CREATING A LASTING IMPACT 

In collaboration with the Ministry of Health of the Government of Uganda, GLO will deliver comprehensive, primary healthcare to a target population of about 900 patients per month at the Nyantonzi site. The health clinic will emphasize the delivery of essential, basic healthcare at the Community Health Center (Level 2) and make referrals to Levels 3 and 4 centers for more complicated cases that will need further management. Nyantonzi Community Health Clinic model seeks to fill the gap by providing effective, affordable and quality-assured primary health care services to poor and low-income families in Uganda through a “one-stop-shop” facility: Patients will have access to a consultation with a physician, point-of-care diagnostics and an on-site pharmacy. We strive to offer the lowest possible prices to patients and to exponentially improve the value they receive as clients. 

Using a comprehensive, community-based approach through our local community health workers, we will focus on improving the interface between the community and the health systems, providing ambulatory primary care, fostering maternal, newborn, and child health, reproductive health, family planning, sanitation and hygiene initiatives, and controlling malaria, TB, HIV, and other childhood illnesses across all life cycles in a coordinated manner at all levels of care.

 

The key to success will be the integration of Village Health Teams (VHT’s) into the healthcare system and the implementation of a facility-based electronic medical records and information system that will enable the health clinic to find patients, register them, locate every person in the communities we serve, and follow up with persons at-risk for adverse health outcomes who do not seek care or who fail to come to clinic appointments.

GLO’s Primary Health Care program will serve as a resource to other health facilities for patient follow up in the delivery of service that will, in turn, strengthen the healthcare delivery system.

 

GLO’s programs will engage and empower orphans, vulnerable children, and their caregivers to build a foundation of action and hope for a healthy and sustainable future by offering access to training and development of their skills and education, child protection, food security, psychosocial support, medical care, and economic empowerment.

Our programs will provide a holistic and multi-disciplinarian approach to strengthen the capacity of families and communities to care and protect their orphans and vulnerable children via community outreach by our Village Health Team (VHT) program first by linking HIV-infected patients and their caregivers and then by supporting children orphaned by AIDS. The program's emphasis is on assisting orphans and vulnerable children within the family and community setting, allowing them to be involved in social activities and to learn and address challenges within their own environment.

 

Many of these children are taken in by elderly grandparents, aunts, uncles, and at times, the eldest child becomes the head of the household.  GLO staff works with families on the ground to determine their needs using comprehensive household and individual assessments. Once a family stabilizes, frequent follow-up visits to households by Village Health Teams (VHT’s) and/or community social workers, will allow for proper monitoring and evaluation of the interventions and their impact. Through this process, the program will be able to confirm that needs have actually been addressed and the intervention is effective.

Finally, families that are struggling economically will be linked to other programs where they will gain access to training on better agricultural practices and income-generating activities.