Keep a Child Alive

Day 28 - ARVs + Food = Life

Meet Kwagala at Alive Medical Services, who’s name fittingly means “love.”  As one of 30 dedicated staff members at the 24-hour clinic in Uganda, she takes loving care of the clinic and heads the group of women who pack the food for Nutrition Day every month. The Nutrition program at Alive provides monthly food parcels to more than 1,000 of the clinic’s poorest patients, whose families would otherwise go hungry.

Situated in one of the poorest urban areas in Uganda, Alive Medical Services is witness to the extreme poverty that many of its patients live in, where people go days - even weeks - without food and basic nutrition, and whose well-being hinges on often unreliable work for little income. One of the most essential, yet often overlooked components of successful HIV/AIDS treatment that Alive Medical Services provides is nutritional support.  AIDS treatment cannot succeed in the absence of proper nutrition, and a majority of the clinic’s patients need nutritional support to feed themselves and their families. 
 
The clinic hosts two “Nutrition Days” every month to distribute all the food parcels to AMS patients.  “Nutrition Days” are serious business at Alive Medical Services, where we know ARVs + Food = Life.

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