 Kenya - Fight against HIV/AIDS and TB infections
In 2002, the GPHF started support of a project for fighting the epidemically spreading HIV/AIDS and TB infections in the slums of Nairobi. To implement this Kenyan project, the GPHF teamed up with the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) and the Malteser Deutschland, a German relief organization.
Approximately 650,000 persons live in the project area, the Kibera slum at the outskirts of Nairobi. This area is thus one of the largest slums in Africa. The average per capita-income of the people living there amounts to 0.2 USD. Clean water, electricity supply or even rudimentary health services are hardly known there. TB and HIV/AIDS can spread unhindered. The number of tuberculosis cases alone has more than doubled during the past five years. As a result of Kenya's uninterrupted economic crisis, the few remaining elements of the basic health care services set up in the past are now falling into decay.
This GPHF project aims at counteracting this development and at simultaneously preventing an epidemical catastrophe in Kibera. For a start, this is to be achieved by setting up five examination units for the diagnosis and treatment of sick persons, for the training of qualified staff, and for follow-on post-therapeutic treatment of treated patients. The project partners hope to lay the foundations for efficient health care structures in Kibera within a period of three years.
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