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treatment iconTREE organizes quality treatment and health care to serve Kenyans living with HIV.

Coptic Hope Center for Infectious Disease

TREE provides technical assistance in the areas of clinical HIV care, fiscal management, and monitoring and evaluation to the Coptic Hope Centers for Infectious Diseases, a group of HIV treatment clinics in Kenya which TREE helped establish in collaboration with the Coptic Christian Mission in 2004.

Hope Center for Infectious Diseases
The Coptic Hope Center for Infectious Diseases at the Coptic Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya

At the Hope Center, TREE operates complementary programs to provide clients with cervical cancer screening, medical support, and supplemental care.  These programs are supported by TREE’s Tumaini Project which works with the Slum Doctor Program and Jolkona to raise funds for indigent people living with HIV/AIDS.  Many UW medical students, residents, and fellows have rotated through the Hope Center and learned how HIV care and treatment is practiced in Kenya.

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Cervical Cancer Screening Program

HIV places women at a higher risk of developing more severe forms of cervical disease, but few Kenyan women have access to cervical cancer screening.In 2006, medical students from the University of Washington initiated a program to screen HIV-positive women for cervical cancer at the Hope Center. Since then, over 2,000 women have been screened at the Hope Center and hundreds of patients with advanced cervical disease have been identified and treated.

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The Tumaini Project

Tumaini is the Swahili word for hope.

The Tumaini Project was established in 2002 to provide free antiretroviral treatment to Kenyans living with HIV.

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Emergency Medical Support for HIV patients

Kenyans living with HIV have access to free antiretroviral medications through PEPFAR-funded clinics like the Hope Center, but there are many conditions and medical emergencies that PEPFAR does not fund.  Sometimes these conditions are severe, requiring hospitalization and expensive diagnostic examinations.  Tumaini Project funds are used by University of Washington medical faculty and staff in Mombasa and Nairobi to treat HIV patients who require emergency medical support but are unable to afford care.

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