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Uganda: Confronting HIV and AIDS
With the support of the Uganda AIDS/HIV Integrated Model District Program (AIM), 16 districts in Uganda established 114 sites for HIV counseling and testing and 90 sites for the prevention of the transmission of the virus from mother-to-child. These stories describe 15 initiatives supported by AIM.
Traveling on Uganda's Roads...
When traveling on Uganda's roads, you see billboards educating about HIV and AIDS scattered from one end of the country to the other. The billboards attest to Uganda's forthright, intensive campaign against the deadly virus. So much of what has been accomplished in waging that campaign is less conspicuous, however. In countless ways, great and small, Uganda's government and its people have been confronting the HIV and AIDS crisis, promoting behavioral changes to prevent the disease, and treating and supporting people who have been infected or affected by it.
From 2001 to 2006, AIM worked with local governments and civil society in Uganda to to establish an effective and replicable district-level model that would contribute to the decrease in HIV prevalence and incidence in Ugandan adults and children, and increase the level of care and support to Ugandans affected by HIV and AIDS.
Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development through the U.S. government's President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the effort has been one of the largest, most diverse technical-assistance programs of its kind in Africa.
AIM was implemented by JSI Research & Training Institute and World Education. Through AIM, JSI and World Education were instruments for supporting Uganda's decentralized response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in 16 districts, reaching about 30 percent of the population.
