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Annet Mbabazi is living with HIV, but her 18-month-old son, Pobruce, is HIV-free. I met the mother-baby pair at the health center in Ibanda District, in SouthwesternUganda, where Annet participates in a family support group. The program has been crucial to her health and to her son’s future.
“When I started… I gained energy to care for my family,” said Annet with a smile when asked about the benefits of the program. “Above all, I appreciate the care of my baby, who is HIV-negative today.”
The family support group at the Ruhoko Health Center IV leads monthly meetings and provides services to HIV-positive mothers and their HIV-exposed infants — funded through partnerships with the EGPAF, the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Strengthening TB and HIV/AIDS Response in the South Western Region of Uganda (STAR-SW Project).
The program takes a holistic approach, providing medical and psychosocial support to HIV-positive mothers while monitoring their HIV-exposed babies. Mothers enroll in medication regimes, participate in support groups with other HIV-positive mothers, and receive counseling and instructions for maintaining their health and reducing risk of infection to their children.
When babies are six weeks old, health workers at the center screen them for HIV with a dried blood spot polymerase chain reaction diagnostic test. The health workers repeat the test when the babies are weaned from breastfeeding, followed by a confirmatory antibody test at 18 months.
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