Caring for People Affected by HIV & AIDS in Nepal

It is encouraging to see the impact that the work in Nepal continues to have. We usually share stories in these reports, but this time would like to share some statistics with you from the 2018 Annual Report.

• Sixty-five new clients and 195 current clients (from outside Kathmandu) made use of the services offered at the Care Centre in 2018.  
• We continue to have a good relationship with the various hospitals and were able to help 2,654 patients in two regional and one national hospital (access lab. tests, Dr’s. checkup, HIV test, CD4 count, viral load, caring for in-patients needs, counselling, etc.). Of these 541 were new patients whom we helped navigate the hospital system. We also helped three women with prevention of mother to child transmission.
• 174 different homes were visited – 111 were outside Kathmandu valley.
• There are 38 children in the scholarship programme. 
• We are running three support-groups. Two are outside Kathmandu.
• We have staff in two areas outside Kathmandu
• We held 20 HIV awareness programmes around the country. A total of about 670 people attended these. We also distributed 1,924 pieces of informative literature.
• Sixty people living with HIV came to our annual AIDSLink Nepal Party in the Park. We sang, danced, played games and ate. Everyone had a fun, encouraging time. We also organized three local Christmas programmes.
• We provided extra nutritional support for ten families and a goat to help one lady earn a livelihood. We also helped to build a house for a person living with HIV and provided a sewing machine to help a lady to earn some income.