Family Health Alive Programs
Under an umbrella of Family Health Alive programs, Maternal Life International provides HIV risk avoidance, treatment and care programs, and safe birthing services to families. The programs are module-based and can be selected individually or in groups by in-country people and organizations, depending on need.
Family Health Alive programs reflect MLI's emphasis on respect for human life and dignity as the foundation of medical care, teaching health care providers and community educators to see a patient with eyes of mercy and not eyes of judgment and as gifts and persons rather than problems or burdens.
Our programs are:
Safe Passages
Essential obstetrical training, neonatal care and prevention of mother to child transmission of AIDS with medicine/equipment support to prevent maternal and infant deaths through up-to-date curricula for safe birthing and newborn care techniques.
AFMED
An Advanced Family Medical Education & Development Initiative for additional physician (and at times nurse and midwifery) education in family medicine. AFMED is intended to help family physicians take a leading role in health care delivery in Africa, providing primary care and preventative services, curative inpatient and outpatient care, and, where necessary, surgical and advanced obstetrical care. This additional specialty training addresses such things as C-sections, antiretroviral management, and advanced HIV care, as well as infectious diseases such a tuberculosis and malaria. AFMED is a collaboration of MLI and the National Center for Health Care Informatics (NCHCI), both of Montana. The NCHCI brings extensive experience and infrastructure in delivering high quality IT video conferencing capabilities and web-based learning applications.
Family Health Alive IT
Using information technology (IT) for distance learning, WEB-mediated training, and modularized CD/DVD curriculums for program implementation and development allows for timely implementation of new medical innovations and for health care providers in developing countries to communicate with each other and with colleagues in developed countries on a more frequent and continual basis through live air applications.
Circles of Life
A community-based program that provides education and support for HIV risk avoidance and fertility literacy, promoting abstinence before marriage and faithfulness in marriage.
The Bead System of Fertility Literacy
Educates literate and illiterate couples about a woman’s menstrual cycle and promotes a non-medical means for determining a woman's fertility as well as natural family planning (NFP).
The Faithful House
An HIV risk avoidance program developed by MLI in partnership with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) for building strong marriages and families to avoid HIV/AIDS by reducing multiple concurrent partnerships.
FAMLI (Fertility Awareness + Maternal Life International)
Offers programs on AIDS Avoidance through Cultural and Behavioral Change. The cultural change component uses facilitators to modify traditional practices that can contribute to HIV infection.
A New Robe
The only Parish Nursing program in Africa, developed with the help of Bristol-Meyers Squibb Foundation that provides a unique and holistic approach to HIV prevention and care, integrating medical science, social support, and spiritual comfort for home-based care of those who are, or could become, HIV infected.