Medical Assistance

	BOH has a new medical centre – the healing balm. The new BOH Health care centre provides holistic, affordable, accessible, sustainable and quality care to the community. These services are provided by a qualified medical staff certified by the government of Kenya. At the BOH medical centre patients are given several available medical services.

•    There is patient medical care; generally dealing with common ailments such as malaria.  
•    Specialized care for HIV/AIDS management and
•    Pharmaceutical services’ including; Prophylactic treatment, ART and VCT is provided.
•    There is ARV adherence counseling.
•    Laboratory services include CD4 cell count and all baseline tests for HIV/AIDS management and Antenatal profile’. Other lab tests including; all routine tests LTFs, RTFs, and lipid profile.
•     Nutritional services for HIV/AIDS management.
•    Post test clubs for adults and children.
•    Immunization and vaccinations
•    Antenatal and postnatal clinics and family planning information.
•    Specialist clinic days such as; Pediatric, Gynecological, chest problems, medical conditions and adolescents.
•    Voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) services.
The centre also provides community medical camps/outreaches, whereby free medical checkups, free medication, VCT services are provided to all     community members.
•    Some of the target communities include Ongata Rongai , Kware, Kandisi, Nkoroi, Bomas, Kiserian,  Ngong and Rongai.

Laboratory Technician at Work	Phamacist	BOH Drugs Store

VCT (Voluntary counseling and Testing Center)

BOH has found that when addressing the issue of HIV/AIDS strictly feeding the women and teaching them a vocational skill is not enough.  It is critical to ncourage community members to take seriously their health matters.  Thus, it is imperative that the people in the community come to a certified centre to know their HIV/AIDS status and then be counseled regardless of the results, to understand how they can continue to live their lives to the fullest potential. We began the VCT in May 2003 and so far more than 15,000 people have been tested.

Post test Support group

BOH runs a Support Group for  HIV positive people.  The group members include women, children and men from Ongata Rongai and its environs who have visited our VCT Centre. The VCT Centre and the support group has been a great success despite the fact that we have lost some of the very active members through death. BOH post test group started in 2004.The program was set up to help those infected  with HIV fight stigma and to find a common place to share experiences .The aim of the support group is to teach members more about HIV/AIDS, Opportunistic infections, how to care for oneself, adherence to ARV drugs. This group meets once a week. The meeting is headed by a trained facilitator. Some groups have graduated after the learning.
Children infected with HIV/AIDS, have their own support group. The facilitator mainly uses play therapy to teach the children and help them understand what is happening to their bodies.