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Since 2001 Seke Rural Home Based Care has been implementing home based care and palliative careinterventions to improve the quality of life for people affected and infected by HIV. SRHBC relies heavily on volunteer caregivers who are the backbone of the organisation. There are a total of 1023 caregivers and all of them have been trained in Home Based Care but only 145 have been trained in palliative care due to limited resources. The caregivers assist in identification, referral and monitoring of HIV positive clients through adherence education and monitoring. They are also responsible for coordinating support groups at community level.

The organisation is also involved in OVC care through addressing education, Health and social protection needs of children. The Education component comprises of direct school fees payment and payment of fees through proceeds from School Development Committee income generating activitieswhich were funded by SRHBC. The Health interventions include School Health Assessments, Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health for in school youths and assistance for HIV positive children using the Integrated Management of Peadiatric HIV AIDS Care and Treatment (IMPACT) model. The IMPACT model was piloted in Seke District by Seke Rural HBC and was very successful. The model has been documented and handed over to the Ministry of Health at national level which is now cascading the model to other District of the country. Social protection interventions include psychosocial support groups, support for child protection committees and counselling for children and their families. The organisation mainstreams livelihoods and gender in all its programming.

Wednesday 17 September 2014

Seke Rural Home Based Care, Zimbabwe

Veronica Ngwerume is Director and a founder of Seke Rural Home-Based Care, providing home-based care for clients with HIV and AIDS in rural Zimbabwe since 2001. Seke Rural Health incorporates a sustainable livelihoods approach to their work. They also actively participate in communication, advocacy and policy development for improvements in home-based HIV and AIDS access, treatment and care.
Seke successfully implemented a series of ground-breaking 'Community Culture Dialogues exploring challenges to gender and HIV and AIDS and fighting unprogressive cultural practices that fuel the spread of the disease.
Seke has also recently mobilized a community-based paralegal project in partnership with the Zimbabwe Women Lawyer's Association. In an attempt to protect women and children from disinheritance following the death of a spouse from HIV and AIDS, Seke has trained local women as paralegals. They work within the community to disseminate information on women's property and land rights and further develop cases when these rights have been taken away.
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