>>>> Major National HIV/AIDS Programmes

Over the years, the country's, the country's multisectoral response has been driven by major funding and/or implantation programmes that involve various stakeholders from national to community levels. These are largely donor driven or hinge on Government borrowing to sustain HIV/AIDS efforts.

The Sexually Transmitted Infections Project ( STIP ) 1995-1998 was among the first major national programmes that funded the many prevention and care initiatives especially from the health sector perspective. STIP was an $80 million project funded through a World Bank Loan. STIP was developed on the basis of the first National Operational Plan for STIs/HIV/AIDS Activities 1994/98, the first country's planning framework that was developed under coordination of the Uganda AIDS Commission. The Project was satisfactorily concluded in 1999.

The UNDP also initiated a $12 million dollar programme in 1995/97 for strengthening the management of the multisectoral response through support to various government ministries to establish AIDS Control Units and to districts to enhance coordination through the District AIDS Coordination Committees.

Since the 2000, several large scale programmes have been initiated and operationalized targeting different aspects of the response and involving a cross section of stakeholders at various levels. The major funding programmes include among others the following:

•  The Uganda AIDS Control Project ( UACP )

•  The District AIDS Integrated Model Project ( AIM )

•  The UPHOLD Project

•  African Youth Alliance ( AYA )

•  Global Fund Against AIDS, TB and Malaria ( GFATM )

•  PEPFAR

Other non-funding national level initiatives that have involved wider stakeholder involvement include :

•  The District Response Initiative ( DRI )

•  The Presidential Initiative on AIDS Strategy for Communicating to Young People ( PIASCY )

•  The Young Empowered and Healthy ( YEAH )

•  The Uganda Think Tank on AIDS ( UTTA )

•  Coordination of AIDS Programmes in emergency settings coordinated by the National Committee on AIDS in Emergency Settings ( NACAES )

This page provides a forum for information sharing on some of these programs.