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Clinics & Staff: Addis Ababa

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The Henry van Ameringen Health and Community Development Center, located in the Shola Market in Addis Ababa, was the first location established upon ASC’s return to Ethiopia in September 2003. Located in the largest open-air market in Addis, this clinic provides free services to over 6,000 of the most vulnerable people in this community, each year.

Services include:

Community outreach and HIV prevention education
Full laboratory including HIV, STI, and TB counseling and testing, CD4 monitoring, hematology, chemistry and microscopy services
Antiretroviral treatment, TB and STI treatment, and treatment to prevent opportunistic infections
Treatment adherence support
Reproductive health and family planning, including contraception, in partnership with DKT Ethiopia
Pediatric HIV/AIDS case management
Multivitamin and micronutrient supplement distribution for children and pregnant and lactating women, in partnership with Vitamin Angels
Children’s nutritional support, in partnership with Save the Children
Micro-lending and income-generating support (IGA)
Children’s new shoe distribution, in partnership with TOMS Shoes.

In addition to our work in Shola Market, ASC also serves nearby Entoto Mountain as part of our Positive Kids Program. This program serves over 40 HIV positive children enrolled in our Pediatric HIV/AIDS case management program, allowing these children and their families, who live geographically isolated from the capital and far from most public health interventions, to have access to HIV and TB testing, treatment and care, supplemented by nutritional support, shoe distribution, IGA projects and more.