Baylor Foundation Uganda served as the prime recipient of a five-year grant implemented from October 2010 to September 2015, with extensions through March 2016 in the Arua Region and June 2017 in the Soroti Region. The project, titled “Scaling Up Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Services, Including Provider-Initiated Testing and Counselling, TB/HIV Services, Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Care, and Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) for Adults and Children in the Eastern and West Nile Regions of the Republic of Uganda,” was implemented with support from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Through the project, Baylor Foundation Uganda supported the expansion and strengthening of comprehensive HIV prevention, testing, treatment, care and support services for adults, children and vulnerable populations across the Eastern and West Nile regions of Uganda.
Baylor Foundation Uganda served as the prime recipient of a five-year grant implemented from October 2010 to September 2015, with extensions through March 2016 for the Arua Region and June 2017 for the Soroti Region.
The project, titled “Scaling Up Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Services, Including Provider-Initiated Testing and Counselling, TB/HIV Services, Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Care, and Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) for Adults and Children in the Eastern and West Nile Regions of the Republic of Uganda,” was implemented with support from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
The project sought to contribute to Uganda’s national HIV prevention goal of reducing new HIV infections by 40% by 2020. To support achievement of this goal, Baylor Foundation Uganda worked with project districts to strengthen and expand comprehensive HIV prevention, care and treatment interventions.
Key priorities included increasing the adoption of safer sexual behaviours and HIV risk-reduction practices; expanding access to and uptake of biomedical HIV prevention interventions; addressing the social, cultural and structural drivers of HIV transmission; strengthening coordination of the HIV prevention response; and improving HIV prevention information systems at all levels to support planning, monitoring and evidence-based decision-making.
Through these interventions, the project aimed to strengthen district capacity and expand access to comprehensive, integrated and quality HIV services for adults, children, families and vulnerable populations across the Eastern and West Nile regions of Uganda.
