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Country Response
HIV/AIDS was declared a development and security crisis in the country in 2000. AIDS programme and priority setting therefore is subordinate to country's development programmes as guided by the national Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) which is the Poverty Eradication Action Plan
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Decentralized Response
Follow the link and identify with the Progress Challenges and Lessons Learnt: Introduction to Decentralized Response
The YEAH Campaign
YEAH is a partnership between stakeholders, young people and the media and centres around a radio serial drama Rock Point 256 that is broadcast on 10 radios in 4 languages. YEAH targets universal coverage with common voices on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health and growing up generally. It targets enhanced individual and social change. The development of the YEAH campaign was also informed by the young people vulnerability analysis exercise spearheaded by the UNICEF country office. YEAH also bases on the Conceptual Framework for communicating to young people about HIV/AIDS/STIs and early pregnancy developed through stakeholder consultations.
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Multisectoral Response
Responses to the epidemic need to be harmonized to ensure consistency and equity in service delivery, promote delivery of integrated social and health services while minimizing on duplication of efforts to optimize on available resources. This can only be achieved through development of partnerships in an environment where each partner recognizes respective roles, responsibilities and mandates in fighting the epidemic.
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Status of HIV& AIDS Prevention, Care and Treatment in Uganda
Almost three decades after the first reported AIDS cases in Uganda in 1982 (Serwadda, 1985), AIDS has continued to pose a significant public health and development challenge. Uganda has a generalized HIV epidemic with a prevalence of 6.4% in adults and 0.7% in children (UAC June 2009). Approximately 1.1 million people in Uganda are HIV-infected (MoH/ORC Macro 2004-5). The incidence rate by far outstrips AIDS related mortality and the
numbers of clients enrolling into chronic AIDS care.
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Intensifying HIV AIDS Prevention
On 3-Aug-2006, Uganda joined several other African countries to declare 2006 as the Year of accelerating HIV prevention.
The Launch that also served as an information sharing forum was a culmination of a 4-month research and priority-setting consultation process that featured a rapid assessment exercise to establish the drivers of the epidemic and effectiveness of current prevention interventions, and the development of a country Road Map for accelerating HIV prevention over the next 5 years.
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Uganda Think Tank on AIDS (UTTA)
The country recognizes the need for innovative interventions to address the epidemic in the face of these challenges. The Uganda Think Tank on AIDS (UTTA) was therefore conceptualized largely to enhance innovation especially focusing on controversies and problematic but key areas of the response and also to streamline processes for translating research and experience into policy and scaled actions.
Spontaneous community initiatives especially to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS characterized the country's initial response to the epidemic. Todate civil society organization (CSOs) including religious organizations have sustained the response especially at grassroots level.
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National Policies and Guidelines on HIV/AIDS
The country has developed tools, standards and guidelines to support implementation of the national program.
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