In some African regions life expectancy has dropped to 36 years.

African Health Care Intervention Project (AHCIP) is a non-profit organization based in the United States. Our purpose is to stop the spread of AIDS in Africa. Our primary goal is to use good business management in the fight against AIDS. We are focusing on direct intervention in areas overlooked by international, national, and local organizations by building community-based health and information centers in countries with high rates of AIDS infections.

Medical centers will provide medical treatment and case management to people living with AIDS. We will distribute information and explain ways to prevent being infected.

We will train local people as health and outreach workers. Their responsibilities are to care for people living with AIDS in their own home, encourage AIDS testing, prevention, and changes in behavior and lifestyles in their communities.

The functions of our community-based, health and information centers are:

• Improve the early detection and treatment of STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases).
• Encourage more people to come forward to be voluntarily tested and counseled.
• Directing prevention, information, and treatment by health, outreach, and sex workers.
• Coordinate our activities with village heads, elders, women's groups, and traditional healers to break down the social stigma attached to persons living with AIDS.
• Ensure reduction in mother-to-child transmission with a combination of treatment, therapy, and administration of AZT, 3TC, and Niverapine.
• Encourage needle exchange programs among intravenous drug users (IDUs).
• Act as a sentinel surveillance system to monitor AIDS rates of infections and begin aggressive AIDS prevention and treatment programs.

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