Baylor College of Medicine
Children’s Foundation - Uganda


ACE BUNYORO

Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation Uganda (Baylor Foundation Uganda) in partnership with TPO is implementing a PEPFAR-funded  ve-year project through the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) named “Accelerating and sustaining Epidemic Control in Bunyoro region in the Republic of Uganda under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)” alias “ACE-Bunyoro”. The project goal is to contribute to MOH e orts to reduce the incidence of HIV infection and HIV/AIDS-related morbidity and mortality among children and adults in Uganda in line with the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets for epidemic control. The project supports 138 health facilities in the eight (8) districts (Buliisa, Hoima, Kagadi, Kibaale, Kikuube, Kiryandongo, and Masindi districts) and one (1) city of Bunyoro region using a Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) approach through district-led programming emphasizing increased utilization, ownership, and sustainability of quality comprehensive adult, pediatric, and adolescent HIV/AIDS, and TB services. The project directly contributes to the National HIV/AIDS Strategy towards Zero new infections, Zero HIV/AIDS-related mortality and morbidity, and Zero discrimination by 2030.

The project’s purpose is to achieve and sustain HIV epidemic control and related diseases in Bunyoro region supported districts by reinforcing health systems to reach the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets through two main objectives:

Primary objective: Accelerate HIV/AIDS epidemic control to attain and sustain the UNAIDS 95-95-95 goals in the Bunyoro region via sustainable interventions addressing unmet needs across the prevention continuum/clinical cascade by 2025.

Secondary objective: Strengthen regional, district, and community system capacities to achieve and sustain HIV epidemic control in the Bunyoro region through innovative training and technical assistance (TA) by 2025.

Key Achievements

Active on ART
62613
Art Clients started on TPT
13369
Cervical Cancer
24351
Children Exposed to HIV testing
12510
Circumcision Cases
83089
GBV cases identified
8017
HIV Positive
21871
New on ART
19616
New TB Cases
14873
Pregnant women with known HIV status
309911
Self-tests kits to test for HIV
36107
Tested for HIV
797770

Program

Donor

Centres for
DiseaseControl (CDC),
Global Health,
ELMA,
ELMA-MNCH

Program Areas

HIV, TB, MNCH,GHS

Area of Operations

Cluster 1 (Hoima): Hoima, Buliisa, Kikuube districts, and Hoima City

Cluster 2 (Masindi): Masindi and Kiryandongo districts Cluster 3 (Kakumiro):

Kakumiro, Kibaale, and Kagadi districts

Project Objectives

Primary objective: Accelerate HIV/AIDS epidemic control to attain and sustain the UNAIDS 95-95-95 goals in the Bunyoro region via sustainable interventions addressing unmet needs across the prevention continuum/clinical cascade by 2025.

Secondary objective: Strengthen regional, district, and community system capacities to achieve and sustain HIV epidemic control in the Bunyoro region through innovative training and technical assistance (TA) by 2025.

The project has six Specific objectives as follows;

  • Sustain the proportion of PLHIV with known HIV status in the Bunyoro region at over 95% through the project period.
  • Sustain the proportion of PLHIV on ART in the Bunyoro region at over 95% through the project period.
  • Increase the proportion of people receiving ART virally suppressed from 70% to 95% by 2021 and sustain it through 2025.
  • Achieve 90% coverage of high-impact combination prevention interventions in the Bunyoro region by 2025.
  • Increase availability, access, and use of quality data to plan, monitor, and evaluate the HIV/AIDS epidemic response by 2025.
  • Strengthen health systems and transition to a Government of Uganda-led sustainable epidemic control program by 2025.