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| Suubi Trust a UK registered charity, 1119874, working with International Medical Foundation in Uganda. |
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| Suubi Trust a UK registered charity, 1119874, working with International Medical Foundation in Uganda. |
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Providing
Care to the Disadvantaged
Suubi Trust is helping to support a Health Centre in Lira, Northern Uganda.
Our initial aim is to provide funds totalling £18,000, during 2008, to provide primary healthcare to the most disadvantaged in this region. We anticipate that such care and treatment will be received by 200 patients each month, 2,400 over the full year. Without such intervention, those being treated would either be unable to find the care needed or simply not be able to afford the fees being charged. Our strategy and working model is outlined in the following Paper:
As
at the end of June we have raised
more than £12,000 towards this year's target. The Community Clinic in Lira Lira is about 350km north of Kampala and the district has a population of more than half a million. This region is beginning to recover from more than two decades of civil strife which has had a significant impact on the lives and health of those living there. To date approximately 180,000 remain displaced by the LRA insurgency. Most people in this region simply cannot afford to pay for the fees required to access healthcare. IMF, in conjunction with supporters such as Suubi Trust, is providing the following services at either a very low cost (equivalent to ~35p) or free of charge:
 The clinic
has the capacity to provide care to 200 charity patients each month at
a cost of about £7.50 each.
Specific contributions have recently been used to provide formal training, by the District, to enable the team to start an Immunisation Programme in which the Government provides the necessary drugs free of charge. Suubi Trust has also bought a generator to help overcome the difficulties caused by the intermittent electricity supply. ...back to top Likely
Costs for Treatment
The following table shows how small contributions can make a significant impact for those needing such care.
If you would like to help support this work then please click here to read how you can give to Suubi Trust. ...back to top The
State of The World’s Children 2008
Ann
M. Veneman, Executive Director, United Nations Children’s
Fund, writes in “The State
of The World’s Children
2008“, a UNICEF report…
In 2006, for the
first time in recent history, the total number of annual deaths among
children under the age of five fell below 10 million, to 9.7 million.
This represents a 60 per cent drop in the rate of child mortality since
1960. However, there is no room for complacency. The loss of 9.7
million young lives each year is unacceptable, especially when many of
these deaths are preventable. And despite progress, the world is not
yet on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal target of a
two-thirds reduction in the rate of child mortality by 2015.
Widespread adoption of basic health interventions, including early and exclusive breastfeeding, immunization, vitamin A supplementation and the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets to prevent malaria, are essential to scaling up progress, in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. More needs to be done to increase access to treatment and means of prevention, to address the devastating impact of pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, severe acute malnutrition and HIV. We know that lives can be saved when children have access to community-based health services, backed by a strong referral system. The focus must be on delivering key interventions at the community level, as part of integrated efforts to support the establishment of stronger national health systems. And particular attention must be paid to the special needs of women, of mothers and of newborn children. >>> Suubi Trust is working in Lira, where one child in 10 dies before its fifth birthday - that’s more than ten times the rate of children dying every year in the UK. Our work is aimed at helping to achieve the 4th MDG. We do this, as recommended above, by providing access to good quality community based health services, backed by a referral process into other available resources within the medical group, e.g. International Hospital Kampala. Help by giving your support to our work in Lira... ...back to top Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs)
IMF is particularly focussed on helping to develop, implement and support programmes that assist Uganda in meeting its agreed healthcare MDG targets . These include: Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality Target: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate In Lira one child in 10 dies before its fifth birthday - that's more than ten times the rate of children dying every year in wealthy countries like the UK. These young children die mostly from preventable illnesses such as acute respiratory infections (mostly pneumonia), diarrhoea, malaria, measles, HIV/AIDS and neonatal conditions - which are all avoidable through existing interventions. These conditions are regularly those being treated at the Lira clinic through the IMF referral schemes mentioned above. Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health Target: Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio Target: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health The chances of suffering a maternal death over a woman's lifetime is one in 200 in Lira compared to one in 3,800 in the UK - a 19 fold difference. Maternal deaths are just the tip of the iceberg - which is why MDG 5 also aims to improve maternal health. For every maternal death, there are at least another 20 women who suffer serious pregnancy-related complications that can cause lifelong disabilities. (Hope Ward has provided surgery to a number of women with such conditions.) The health and survival chances of a newborn baby are largely determined by the mother's health and nutrition and prenatal and antenatal care that she receives. Almost all causes of infant and maternal mortality are preventable, as can be seen from the low IMR and MMR in high resource settings (e.g. UK) where supervised delivery and antenatal attendance is high. Making sure women have timely access to competent hospital care and e.g. caesarean section when necessary is essential to achieve low levels of maternal mortality. In Lira there is currently an extremely low level of supervised deliveries, 14.8% (in the UK this is 99%), which contributes directly to the alarming statistics above. IMF will seek to work with affiliates and partners to develop a specific programme aimed at improving Maternal Health by providing high quality ante-natal and maternity care and services. Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases Target: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS Target: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for those who need it Target: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases The spread of diseases like HIV and AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, TB, wreak havoc in poor countries. In 2002, 42 million adults and five million children were living with HIV and AIDS and 95% of those people were in developing countries. Seven out of 10 were in Sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria, a wholly-treatable disease, is thought to account for up to 25% of child deaths in the developing world, while tuberculosis kills about two million people a year. As well as the personal tragedy, these diseases are also having a devastating effect on the economies and social development of poor countries. For example, in 1999 an estimated 860,000 African children lost their teachers to AIDS. Despite early success at tackling the HIV pandemic, prevalence in Uganda, standing at 6.8% has not decreased in recent years. The 2005 HIV Sero Behavioural study showed that HIV prevalence in Uganda is 10.2% among urban residents compared to 5.7% among their rural counterparts. IMF has carried out a number of one-day pilot outreaches including one in the Mbarara district. Using supplementary staff hired from another local HIV/AIDS support organisation, it counselled and tested 100 people for HIV. 13% were positive. IMF will seek to work with partners, the Government and grant organisations to conduct comprehensive programmes providing HIV/AIDS voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) and required clinical treatment using Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART). A number of proposals are currently being considered for Lira, Mbarara and the slums of the Makindye division in Kampala close to the Hospital. ...back to top Contact us... You can get in touch by email - Contact@SuubiTrust.org.uk by phone - +44 7733 318280 or by mail to: Suubi Trust 15 Todd Close Holmer Green Bucks HP15 6UX. Or use this form to send your message now... |
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This report outlines the treatments received by 54 patients in the last week of January. Each Patient contributes UGX2,000 towards the cost of treatment, the balance, 93%, is met by Suubi Trust.  Read this Paper to learn more about our model and strategy for establishing Clinics in Northern Uganda.  This links to a smaller file, the same paper but without photos. Check out the recent news and photos on the Blog...  We have
started to provide care to children attending the Montessori
Nursery School and
Lira Primary School...
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