The Masooli Project

Project Description

This new medical center will expand health care, outreach, educational and treatment capacities to people living in the rural community of Nangabo county, 8 miles from Kimpala, the capital of Uganda. This clinic will provide accessible health care and prevention education to thousands of people who now have to walk for miles and sometimes wait for days for expensive care.

The foundation of the Masooli clinic is built on faith-based communities who have come together in partnership to provide basic health care, preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS, and increasing the treatment linkages and caring community networks for orphans and vulnerable children in this underserved region of Uganda. Masooli is one of 9 towns in Nangabo region which has a population of 65,000 people.

A large majority of the population live in poverty and this new clinic will significantly expand health care access and make available health education, and testing services, increasing the capacity to effectively reach all citizens with prevention and education services, reducing and stopping HIV/AIDS transmission, treating and preventing malaria, tuberculosis and increasing the capacity to diagnose and treat other common infectious diseases.

Most households in this part of Uganda depend on some type of agriculture and trade for their income. Some are vegetable or flower farms and many bring their produce to markets and exporting businesses in the largest nearby city of Entebbe or sell along the highways to Kampala. HIV/AIDS has impacted the food security of the region, with increased illness and death in many families.