One of the newest projects for Engage Now Africa is the support of a Pediatric Clinic in Nyangana, Namibia. The Pediatric Clinic focuses not only fighting the HIV/AIDS virus in children, but, it will also focus on giving them hope, a high quality of life and an education about the virus.
Pediatric Clinic Update
The Pediatric Clinic is desperately needed Nyangana, Namibia. According to UNICEF, the Eastern African region is the at the center of the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic with 48 per cent of the world’s new HIV infections among adults, 55 per cent among children, and 48 per cent of AIDS-related deaths .
The Pediatric Clinic believes in the power of education. Each patient and their parent(s) are taught about the causes and prevention methods for the HIV/AIDS virus, as well as the proper usage of medication to regulate the virus. Patients at the clinic range in age from 6-21, so parental consent and education is required for treatment.
Each month patients come in for check-ups and monitoring. We want these pediatric patients to know that HIV/AIDS is not the end of life and they can still live a happy, healthy life if they take their Anti- Retroviral Therapy(ART) medications daily and maintain a safe, healthy lifestyle.
Continued support of the Pediatric Clinic will ensure that thousands of children who are infected with the HIV/AIDS virus will live a long, happy life that would otherwise be unattainable. ART medications and running this public service clinic are very expensive. To assist in this life-saving effort, please visit us at http://ibt.348.myftpupload.com/donate/
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