Our objective is to improve the health wellbeing of the community people through the provision of health facilities and by improving access to services for PLWHA.
Our Work
Health Centre- The health centre was the first project V2V was involved with in the village. Asked to fundraise for a new building by Uchira Village Council the building is in its final stages with a sewage system being fitted. In true partnership the local district council has already provided 16 beds and employees 7 members of staff. This has already helped to improve the lives of people in the village where the main health problems include, malaria, pneumonia, respiratory infections, worms, accidental injuries, HIV related illnesses. V2V, is looking at using this health centre as a VCCT centre in future so as to help mitigate the deadly impact of HIV/AIDS in the rural people’s lives.
Promoting the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS- Thanks to a grant from the Department for International Development V2V began in July 2008 a three year long project supporting people with HIV/AIDS. The project mainly deals with building the capacity of peoples living with HIV/AIDS and to mobilize them to demand and achieve their rights to HIV/AIDS services and other safety net entitlements. The project is being implemented in partnership with KIKUHE; a local group of people living with HIV/AIDS working to ease access to and encourage new declaration through voluntary confidential counselling & testing (VCCT). Over the three years, the project will work in 41 villages in the Moshi and Same regions in Tanzania to facilitate the formation of model groups of PLWHA to increase access to HIV/AIDS services to the infected and most vulnerable in the two districts.
For more details about these projects please see their dedicated links
Why Health and HIV/AIDS?
HIV/AIDS cause 1 death every ten seconds, 6 deaths every minute, 342 deaths per hour and more than 8,200 deaths every single day, 2.7 million people were newly infected with HIV in 2007 and there were 2 million deaths related to AIDS, bringing the total number of people living with HIV to 33 million. Out of an estimated 9.7 million people in developing countries that need treatment, only 3 million were receiving the medicines. In 2007, there were an estimated 9 million child deaths and diarrhoea still kill 3.8 million children under five each year. Every year some 536 000 women die of complications during pregnancy or childbirth, 99% of them in developing countries and in 2006, an estimated 3300 million people were at risk of malaria. Of these, some 1200 million were in the high-risk category. Tuberculosis prevalence and death in every 100,000 population still remains at 206 in 2007. An estimated 1200 million people are affected by neglected tropical diseases, chronic disabling infections that thrive in conditions of impoverishment and weak health systems.
Support Us in
Equipping the community health centre in Uchira community in Tanzania.
Increasing understanding in your local community about the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania and Uganda.
Increasing access to HIV/AIDS services for people living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania and Uganda
Promoting the work and fundraising for our straight talk group- students in the local high school who are interested in learning about and educate their peers on HIV/AIDS.
Fundraise to help us support the nearby orphanage in Hedaru where 16 children orphaned because of HIV/AIDS live help us pay the salary of the teacher/homecarer and provides other things for the children.
Train peer Educators to kick off our peer education project within secondary
Nutritional awareness for HIV/AIDS patients using the sustainable agricultural project
