National Strategic Framework
Status
Completed. (Period 2000/1 to 2005/6)

• The National AIDS Policy is being revised.
• Openness and a non-discriminative approach to the involvement of PLWHA are actively promoted.

Ministry of Health
Kitante Road - Kampala
Tel: +256 41 231 567/8
Email:
Website: www.government.go.ug

Uganda AIDS Commission
Contact person: Kihumuro Apuuli - Director General
P.O. Box 10779
Kampala, Uganda
Tel: +256 41 273 538 / +256 41 273 231
Fax: +256 41 347 447
Email:
Website: www.aidsuganda.org

• Coordination of the country multisectorial efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS done through joint planning; monitoring and evaluation of the national programme; resource mobilisation; policy formulation; information sharing; advocacy and networking.

HIV/AIDS Organisations:

1. African Medical Research Foundation-Uganda (AMREF)
   Contact person: Mr Francis Okriokot
   P.O. Box 10663
   Kampala, Uganda
   Tel: +256 41 250 319 / +256 41 344 579
   Fax: +256 41 344 565
   Email: /
   Website: www.amref.org
   · Sexual health training; HIV prevention amongst young people; primary school AIDS prevention; sex education and counselling by teachers and peer educators.
• Islamic Medical Association Of Uganda
  Contact person: Magid Kagimu
  P.O. Box 2773
  Kampala, Uganda
  Tel: +256 41 272 812 /071 272 812
  Fax: +256 41 251 443
  Email:
  Website: www.imauganda.org
  · Health service delivery, HIV/AIDS prevention and control using the Islamic approach.
• National AIDS Documentation And Information Centre (NADIC)
  P.O. Box 10779
  Kampala, Uganda
  Tel: +256 41 273538 / +256 41 273231
  Fax: +256 41 258173
  Email:
  Website: www.aidsuganda.org
  · Documentation centre; promotion of current and relevant HIV/AIDS information.
• National Community Of Women Living With AIDS (ACWLWA)
  Contact person: Scovia Kasolo
  P.O. Box 4485
  Kampala, Uganda
  Tel: +256 41 269694
  Fax: +256 41 269694
  Email:
  · Network of positive women: coordination; networking; advocacy; rights.
• National Guidance and Empowerment Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda (NGEN+)
  Contact person: Augustine Kishangeki
  P.O. Box 10028
  Kampala, Uganda
  Tel: +256 41 259481 / +256 41 403836
  Fax: +256 41 34330/1
  Email:
  · Regional coordinating network for people with HIV/AIDS: advocacy/rights; information exchange; capacity building; health promotion.
• Straight Talk Foundation
  Contact person: Anne Akia Fiedler
  P.O. Box 22366
  Kampala, Uganda
  Tel: +256 41 543025/884
  Email:
  Website: www.straight-talk.or.ug
  · Information, education and communication materials for teenagers; prevention.
• The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO)
  Contact person: Rebecca Nvule
  P.O. Box 10443
  Kampala, Uganda
  Tel: +256 41 532 580/1
  Fax: +256 41 566 704 / +256 41 541 288
  Email: /
  Website: www.taso.co.ug
  · Support; advice; information; education; prevention; medical services.
• THETA - Traditional and Modern Health Practitioners Together Against AIDS
  Contact person: Dorothy Balaba
  P.O. Box 21175
  Kampala, Uganda
  Tel: +256 41 530 619 / +256 41 532 930
  Fax: +256 41 530 619
  Email:
  Website: www.thetauganda.org
  · Collaboration between traditional healers and conventional health practitioners. Provision of health care and prevention using local resources and a culturally relevant approach. Training of traditional healers as health educators and counsellors.
• Uganda Youth Anti-AIDS Association (UYAAS)
  Contact person: Sande P. Ndimwibo
  P.O. Box 11407
  Kampala, Uganda
  Tel: +256 41 270 546 / +256 77 251 740
  Email:
  · HIV/AIDS education and prevention; training of peer educators; counselling of young people with health problems or at risk; condom promotion and distribution; media programmes for young people; community mobilisation; technical research on HIV/AIDS related issues.
• Uganda Network of AIDS Service Organisations (UNASO)
  Tel: +256 77 486 507/644 511
  Email:
  · Self-help; information; education; prevention; advocacy; lobbying; counselling.
• Youth Development Mission
  Contact person: Francis Kamya
  P.O. Box 3467
  Kampala, Uganda
  Tel: +256 41 567 830
  Mobile: +256 77 691 999
  Email:
  · Prevention campaigns aimed at young people; counselling; referrals.
• UN Theme Group on HIV/AIDS, Chair
  Contact person: Mr Ken Davies
  UNDP Resident Representative
  United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  Office of the Resident Representative
  15B, Clement Hill Road
  P.O. Box 7184
  Kampala, Uganda
  Tel: +256 41 345 290
  Fax: +256 41 344 801
  Email:
  · Supports an expanded response and policy advice on preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS.
• UNAIDS Country Programme Adviser a.i.
  Contact person: Mr Ruben Frank del Prado
  EADB Building, 2nd floor
  Nile Avenue, Plot 4
  c/o WHO Uganda
  P.O. Box 24578
  Kampala, Uganda
  Tel: +256 41 273 538
  Fax: +256 41 347 447
  Email:
  (Programme Officer, HIV/AIDS Partnership
  Contact person: Ms Inge Tack)
  Email:
  Website: www.unaids.org
  · UNAIDS leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS.
• Programme Officer, HIV/AIDS Partnership
  Contact person: Ms Inge Tack
  Tel: 232 316 / 234592
  Fax: +256 41 259146
  Email:
  Website: www.unaids.org
  · UNAIDS, leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS.

For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications

For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications

Source: WHO/UNAIDS epidemiological fact sheets on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2004 Update.
Email:

Assessment of the epidemiological situation (2004)

Uganda is often sited as the success story in sub-Saharan Africa in its efforts to reduce HIV prevalence levels.

Information on HIV prevalence among antenatal clinic (ANC) attendees is available from Uganda on an annual basis since 1985, in Kampala, the major urban area. HIV prevalence among ANC women tested there increased from 11 percent in 1985 to 31 percent in 1990. Beginning in 1993, however, HIV prevalence among ANC women began to decline in Kampala reaching 8.3 percent in 2002. HIV prevalence by age is available since 1990. In 1991, 28 percent of ANC women tested who were less than 20 years of age were HIV positive. This rate declined to 6 percent in 2001. Sentinel surveillance of ANC attendees outside of Kampala began in 1989. Median HIV prevalence declined from 13 percent of ANC women tested in 1992 to 4.7 percent in 2002.

Only one unspecified site reported HIV prevalence for sex workers in Uganda. In 1997, a study of 85 sex workers found 66 percent HIV positive.

In a decade, from 1989 to 1999, reported HIV prevalence among STI clinic patients in Kampala decreased from a median of 52 percent to 23 percent. In 2000 and 2001, HIV prevalence among STI clinic patients was just over 20 percent. Results of HIV testing among male STI clinic patients in Kampala showed a decrease from 42 percent in 1989 to 34 percent in 1995. Among female STI clinic patients, reported HIV prevalence also decreased, from 62 percent in 1989 to 37 percent in 1997.

Among military recruits however, HIV prevalence has increased. Among those military recruits tested in Kampala, HIV prevalence increased from 16 percent in 1992 to 27 percent in 1996. Between 1997 and 1999, 3 to 13 percent of military recruits tested from Bombo, Entebbe, Kabamba, Masindi, and Singo were HIV positive.