Our Partner

COVE Alliance

COVE Alliance originated as one man’s dream and has become a growing network of caring, gifted people reaching out to orphaned and disadvantaged children in Uganda.

Father Hilary Muheezangango grew up in central Uganda, an area that had seen multiple civil wars since his birth in 1972 and faced a large scale outbreak of HIV/AIDS beginning in the 1980s. As a young seminarian in Uganda’s Kasana-Luweero Diocese, he ministered to hundreds of orphaned youths who had no one caring for them. “Now the remnants of the war became the victims of HIV/AIDS,” reported Hilary. “HIV/AIDS has swept the generation that survived the war, leaving many of the children orphans.” COVE Alliance, a nonprofit organization serving orphaned and vulnerable children in central Uganda, was founded to combat the combination of political, economics, and health challenges confronted by the youth of Uganda.

Today, COVE Alliance U.S. raises funds to support COVE’s presence in Uganda. The town of Kapeeka and the Diocese of Kasana-Luweero are home to COVE Alliance Uganda with its Children’s Outreach Program and site of the St. Jerome COVE Center, a combination primary school and health clinic.

For more information see www.covealliance.org.

 

Previous Partnerships:

Medical AIDS Outreach (2010-2014)

The Medical AIDS Outreach, Inc. (MAO), a private, non-profit, community-based AIDS service organization covering 26 counties of South Central Alabama. Since its establishment in 1987, it has provided HIV treatment, education, and outreach. MAO covers about a third of Alabama’s geography, most of which are very poor and rural counties. About half of their patients are uninsured and about 70% are minorities. With currently over 17,500 people in Alabama living with HIV/AIDS and a woeful short of primary care physicians, Alabama needs at least 402 more primary care physicians—strategically placed in rural and low-income areas—to achieve an ideal ratio of patients to doctors (Alabama Department of Public Health). HIV providers are even more difficult to recruit.

MAO is currently embarking on a bold mission to increase the access to specialized HIV health care for rural Alabama residents in the form of several telemedicine clinics strategically placed throughout rural Alabama. MAO has been selected as the national pilot site for this cutting edge project that has the potential to make medical history and change the face of rural health care in Alabama. Telemedicine clinics will connect rural Alabama residents with medical experts based in urban Alabama, a high-tech solution to the problem of limited HIV providers in Alabama. This project is addressing a critical need both practically and efficiently.

If you live in the Montgomery-Prattville-Wetumpka area and would like more information regarding STD prevention or get tested for HIV/AIDS, we encourage you to visit MAO at 2900 McGehee Road, Montgomery, AL.

For more information see: www.maoi.org.