Primary Healthcare
Project Profiles
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Please choose one of the links below for more detailed information on the range and variety of development work, that some of the missionaries we provide support for, are involved in.
- Better Care for the Pregnant Mother and her Unborn Child, Southern Africa, Lesotho
- Sr. Patricia Speight, East Africa, Kenya
- Kathie Davey, East Africa, Uganda
- Sr. Marian Moriarty, Southern Africa, South Africa
- Sr. Valsa Sebastian, South Asia, India
- Sr. Mercie Lae, West Africa, Nigeria
- Sr. Elizabeth Mooney, Southern Africa, Zambia
- DREAM Sr Catherine Mulligan, East Africa, Kenya
- DREAM Sr. Geraldine Henry , West Africa, Nigeria
- Sr. Martina Makanga, Central Africa, Rwanda
- Fr. Brian O'Sullivan, South America, Brazil
- Mobile AIDS Homecare and Orphans Programme, East Africa, Uganda
Samples of the regional range and variety of development work of missionaries
Peru
Provision of a drug rehabilitation programme to aid 105 youths and
adult males and their families whose lives have been devastated as a
result of addiction. A core aim is to increase the number of youth
and men in the detoxification phase of drug rehabilitation to 60,
and the end goal being vocational training and reunification with
families.
Honduras
Health education and prevention of disease to empower people to take
responsibility for their personal health, the health of their
community and the environment, provision of a support system to
families in crisis, health maintenance and alleviation of stress, by
offering a programme of complimentary therapies.
Kenya
Provision of transport to facilitate health programme in Lodwar,
Kenya, involving outreach and mobile clinics, visits to schools and
community groups and transport of drugs and supplies.
Uganda
Improvement of the health situation of the community in Mbikko
through training and awareness creation on issues of health,
sanitation, immunization, pre and post-natal care, safe delivery,
environmental hygiene, nutrition and human rights.
Lesotho
Provision of a comprehensive medical care for our community all
under one roof of the clinic. Clinic provides voluntary HIV
counselling and testing, free anti-retroviral and free TB treatment
which aim to reduce the effects of HIV infection on the community.
South Africa
HIV and Nutrition Outreach through targeting 720 people in 2
communities and through these people as catalysts of change, educate
the communities on HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention and treatment
options. The education also includes the setting up of 26 gardens
and training the communities in the running of these gardens and the
nutritional support that these gardens can contribute to the
treatment of HIV/AIDS while taking other medications.
Tanzania
Upgrading of resources to respond to the increased demands placed on
the local health service provider by the HIV/AIDS epidemic including
training in voluntary counselling and testing, purchase a motor bike
to provide access to outlying villages for mobile testing, provision
of nutritional support to those living with HIV who have recently
tested positive and subsidising the purchase of HIV test kits.
The Gambia
Provision of quality primary health care to the vulnerable and
marginalised in remote villages by running a mobile clinic in The
Gambia. Awareness education sessions/health talks on malaria,
diarrhoea and HIV/AIDS were given in the clinics, 14,370 patients
were treated, and 4000 were given vaccinations and 1000 vaccinations
to those in antenatal.
Cameroon
Completion of health centre providing prenatal, deliveries,
postnatal education and care, vaccination programmes and health and
HIV/AIDS education in the clinic, local schools and neighbourhood.