{"id":469,"date":"2019-01-03T06:34:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T06:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahealthcentre.org\/home\/?page_id=469"},"modified":"2023-03-14T14:33:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T14:33:19","slug":"art-clinic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sahealthcentre.org\/home\/departments\/art-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY (ART) CLINIC"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The clinic is responsible for HIV care services; offering HIV counseling and testing, prevention of HIV acquisition and transmission and manages opportunistic Infections in people living with HIV AIDS.<\/p>

The clinic has a team that longs to offer psycho \u2013 social support to HIV victims and also reduce mother to child transmission after birth thereby creating an HIV free generation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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  • HIV counseling and testing services<\/li>
  • Health Education talks for the clients in HIV care<\/li>
  • Antiretroviral treatment for people living with HIV.<\/li>
  • Outreach activities for HIV counseling and testing<\/li>
  • Training of staff\u2019s in HIV care and updates through Continuous Medical Education (CME)<\/li>
  • Providing prophylactic medication \u201cPost Exposure Prophylaxis\u201d to those Exposed to HIV and AIDS<\/li>
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    Days: Wednesday and Friday (in a week)
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    • The community has been sensitized about HIV and AIDS and all the myths about HIV have been addressed.<\/li>
    • People living with HIV\/AIDS receive treatment and management, health education on different topic such as Adherence, positive living, stigma, disclosure and many more.<\/li>
    • Through community out-reaches, people are tested for HIV and those found positive start their treatment on antiretroviral therapy (ARV\u2019s)<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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      Clinical officer John Byaruhanga. The focal person of the\u00a0 ART clinic<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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      Success recorded<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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      • There has been an increase in the number of people initiated into HIV care since 2009 to 785 excluding those who have died and transferred out (gone to other hospitals)<\/li>
      • Most of the clients are suppressing their viral load (little amount of HIV virus in the blood)<\/li>
      • Mothers who are HIV positive and on treatment are delivering babies free of HIV due to proper management.<\/li>
      • Health Education done has helped to reduce greatly the stigma associated with HIV AIDS.<\/li>
      • Staffs have been trained in HIV \/ AIDS through workshops and Continuous Medical Education (CME).<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Clinic ART Clinic The clinic is responsible for HIV care services; offering HIV counseling and testing, prevention of HIV acquisition and transmission and manages opportunistic Infections in people living with HIV AIDS. The clinic has a team that longs to offer psycho \u2013 social support to HIV victims and also reduce mother to child transmission after birth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":86,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-gutentor-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-469","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahealthcentre.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahealthcentre.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahealthcentre.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahealthcentre.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahealthcentre.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sahealthcentre.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/sahealthcentre.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/469\/revisions\/2155"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahealthcentre.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahealthcentre.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}