Years of civil war have negatively impacted the provision of primary health care in Burundi and D.R.Congo with serious consequences, making it difficult for the population to access medical care near to home. New Family for Development has been involved in the rehabilitation of hospitals in Burundi and eastern D.R.Congo and has constructed a Regional Cholera Treatment Centre in Uvira, D.R. Congo.

NFD includes AIDS awareness training in all of its programmes and has been involved in training AIDS awareness trainers and organising church-based income generating schemes for support and care in the community of families affected by AIDS.

With funding from the Japanese government, NFD has built a Health Centre on the outskirts of Bujumbura which it hopes to open shortly (as soon as electricity and water supplies are assured). It will  provide:

• outpatient consultations
• maternity services
• X rays
• ultrasound
• laboratory testing and
• preventive medicine

…for the surrounding population of poor and under-privileged people, the rural population of the hills of Bujumbura Rural Province and the nearby prison population of over 3,000.