Lighthouse Overview

Lighthouse Trust, a recognized Centre of Excellence, read more, was among the first public clinics to provide free, life-saving anti-retroviral therapy in Malawi. Currently, Lighthouse is the largest ART clinic in the Central Region. Lighthouse works in close coordination with the Ministry of Health (MoH) to operate two large integrated HIV testing, treatment and care clinics in Lilongwe: Lighthouse (LH) clinic on the campus of Kamuzu Central Hospital and the Martin Preuss Center (MPC) located next to the central bus station at Bwaila Hospital.

Lighthouse’s nationally-recognized HIV services are provided through a continuum of client-centered care, including HIV testing, ART provision, TB treatment, family planning services, home-based care, and community adherence support. Of our more than 15,000 patients alive on ART, approximately 5,500 are at Lighthouse and 9,500 are at MPC. In addition to ART services, MPC houses the largest TB registration centre in Malawi with approximately 4,000 TB suspects and 3,500 TB patients annually. Co-infected TB/HIV patients receive one-stop clinical care: 95% of TB patients know their HIV status, and approximately 65% of HIV+ TB patients initiate ART. LH and MPC together provide primary care services to approximately 3,200 pre-ART patients who are HIV-infected, but not yet eligible for ART. Overall Lighthouse currently provides HIV services for more than 22,000 patients.

Our work is based on our successful technical approach:

1) To expand high-quality, integrated HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support services (service delivery);

2) To promote innovative approaches for HIV prevention, treatment, care and support through program development, piloting, evaluation and dissemination (modeling new interventions);

3) To build and strengthen capacity for HIV and AIDS treatment, care and support in Malawi (capacity building).

Read more: Lighthouse Overview