Coptic Hope Center
Ngong Road
P.O.Box 21570
Nairobi,Kenya
Phone: 254-272-5856
mattwa@copticmission.org
The Pharmacy!
The pharmacist is the “gate-keeper” of the HAART Protocol by making sure that the patient is qualified and ready to start using antiretroviral medications. For patients who are already on the therapy, the pharmacist ensures the patient is properly taking medications as prescribed. The pharmacy is a point of acquisition and distribution of drugs, but additionally provides other services and linkages with Hope Center departments:
• Ensuring the patient is qualified and ready to begin HAART
• Counseling patients about taking the medications and side effects
• Supporting Adherence, confirm that he done ADH3.
• Following the clients who missed appointments by making a list of them each month and give to the social worker to call them one by one then update her data in the ART tool.
• Referring clients in need of further counseling, medical attention or nutritional advisement to appropriate departments in the protocol
• Dispensing treatments for opportunistic infections to patients who are on HAART.
• Dispensing septrin for the clients on basic care not on HAART.
• Dispensing PMTCT drugs to the pregnant women and for their babies.
• Dispensing PEP drugs to the clients who have been exposed to HIV after counseling them.
• Filling the bags for the social workers by the first aid drugs that they using in the field for the HOME-BASIC CARE program.
Now when the sun was setting, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness,and laying his hands on each one,he healed them.
Luke 4:40

News

May 28, 2008
A word from his grace bishop paul
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January 26, 2009
Grand Opening of the Expanded Hope Center
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April 9th, 2009
We are happy to launch the coptic hope center Website!