Leo Community Development Network (LECDEN-KENYA)

Home based care:

Home based care continues to remain as a critical service to our clients. Home based care is required more when our clients are discharged from hospitals or when their health deteriorates to the extent that they require active support from other caregivers. In such instances, home based care takes the form of nursing care, giving bed-baths, detail cares, making some nutritious food or emotional support for continued coping.

With introduction of antiretroviral therapy at LECDEN-KENYA, home based care has also assumed the form of supportive drug adherence counseling, where our treatment support counselors explore with clients the importance of taking their medication without fail, offering them practical information and guide to adherence.


ORPHAN SUPPORT INITIATIVES

“Supporting mothers means supporting the children born to them also”…. This is a common wisdom at LECDEN-KENYA, first promoted in 2007, when during a group therapy counseling session, a lady stood up and asked the Directors the saddest question ever to be discussed at a group therapy session -“what happens to our children when we can no longer get the benefits of treatment, as is the obvious with HIV infection?

A lot of advancements have occurred and this wisdom may no longer have a lot of justification, especially because of life-prolonging ARVs. The fact, however, remains that women still succumb to HIV infection in great numbers and more children are being orphaned. Kenya is now home to over 1.5- 2.0 million orphaned children, mostly due to HIV & AIDS complications. Many orphans face devastation's of untold proportions, are neglected, abused and at times, have to take on adult roles at such tender age as 10 years, fending for themselves and for their younger siblings