This project will provide 150 HIV sufferers in Eastern Uganda with vital fruits, home care for mental and physical empowerment in the final stages of the disease. Mental strength will encourage physical strength, evoking hope and general wellbeing.
Many Ugandans are infected with HIV. HIV and patients' nutrition are intimately linked. Sufferers have higher metabolism and often have lower levels of vital micronutrients in their blood. While patients need to maintain high levels of nutrients to fortify immune systems and reduce weight loss, many are poor and incapacitated by HIV. They can not replenish their bodies; causing speedy disease progression and ineffective ARV treatment. Many are ostracized by their community or confined to homes.
POP will offer a home based psychosocial service to patients that are confined to their own homes due to incapacitation from the disease. Staple goods, such as their medicinal drugs, soap and healthy fruits and foods with high nutritional value to fortify the immune systems will be delivered to them. Volunteers will bath patients, perform domestic chores and offer some form of occupational therapy and entertainment within the home.
POP will serve 150 HIV patients and help them improve their health or at least help those who die to die honourably; aware that they were loved and cared for.
