Introduction to Zoë-Life services

Zoë-Life co-ordinated a clinical hand-over of our on-site activities to the municipal clinic staff. Over the years, we have seen that ongoing mentoring for teams and individuals is a key intervention for sustaining quality of service:

From 2011, once our programmes are re-based at community sites, our team will be offering mentorship as part of a roving technical support service to the municipal clinic staff and other organisations helping them. We want them to feel excited and confident about their independent management of the systems we've put in place.

Beyond this phase, we hold a vision of Zoë-Life leading a thoroughly integrated Prevention of Parent-to-Child Transmission (PPTCT) service project, falling under PARENTAL AND CHILD CARE, rather than a mother-only focus. We believes it is crucial to draw fathers and all male family members into HIV treatment, care and support, and that this inclusive approach will help enormously in strengthening families and communities.
We need a "PPTCT Community" to inspire and uplift moms, dads, aunties and uncles, gogos and granddads in helping one another for all their needs - not only around HIV, but to share cheap, nutritious meals, ideas for household income, willing shoulders to cry on, grown-ups making sure that babies and kids are never left unattended or vulnerable to harm ... whole neighbourhoods of families getting stronger and healthier, and joining together to guard their children's wellbeing. Just as all Zoë-Life's programme work is linked, this is how we as a caring society should understand health and development.