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Family AIDS Care and Education Services (FACES)
Funded by the Centers for Disease Control under the Presidential
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Women's Global Health
Imperative, and collaborators from the
Kenya Medical
Research Institute (KEMRI),
University of
Nairobi,
University
of Illinois at Chicago, and
University of
Manitoba, will provide care and support to research participants
and their affected immediate family members including children.
We believe that a strategy centered on caring for affected
families will first and foremost save the greatest number of lives,
afford the most support to families and their communities, lead to
decreased stigmatization associated with HIV, and provide greater
impetus for HIV preventive efforts at the individual, family and
community levels.
FACES will operate two comprehensive care and training
facilities, one in Kisumu based at Lumumba Health Center, and one at
the Center for Respiratory Disease Research (CRDR) at KEMRI.
Our objectives will be to:
- Provide comprehensive care and support including the provision
of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to research participants and their
immediate family members;
- Develop and implement a model of Family HIV/AIDS care and
education that is responsive to the needs of HIV affected
populations in Kenya;
- Measure and evaluate the effectiveness of care, support and
treatment provided by FACES;
- Develop local capacity and provide training to Kenyan health
care professionals and lay persons in family AIDS care; and
- Provide ongoing monitoring and evaluation of FACES.
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