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Uganda
 Read our Uganda Program Fact Sheet.
Key Facts [Source: UNAIDS 2008]
- Estimated number of people living with HIV: 940,000
- Estimated number of children under 15 living with HIV: 130,000
- Foundation headquarters: Kampala
- Foundation presence since: 2000
Foundation Programs in Uganda
In keeping with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) progressive guidelines on priority interventions for HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment, the Foundation uses a comprehensive family care approach in its sites. Specific services include:
 Improvement of Maternal Health and Child Health Services: Renovating clinics, training, providing supplies, and improving the quality of family planning counseling.- Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT): Providing services to prevent transmission of HIV from mothers to their babies.
- Identification and referral: Creating critical linkages with existing community-based programs to increase the screening and identification of HIV-exposed children and their families.
- HIV and AIDS Care and Treatment: Ensuring that HIV-infected children and adults live longer, healthier lives by providing medical care and antiretroviral treatment.
- Psychosocial Support: Providing children and families infected and affected by HIV with both physical and emotional care.
Key Foundation Accomplishments (as of September 30, 2009)
- Supporting more than 418 sites, with particular focus in Uganda's south western region.
- Provided more than 1.9 million women in Uganda with access to critical PMTCT services.
- Led the process of developing peer support groups and an annual camp for HIV-infected and -affected children in Uganda.
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Where We Work in Uganda
Special thanks to our partners in Uganda:
Willie (right) helps plant a tree to honor Ariel Glaser at Ariel Children's Camp 2008. |
Message From the Uganda Country Director, William Salmond
The last few weeks have seen a flurry of excitement as the members of our Ariel Children’s Clubs, all of whom are HIV-positive and on medication, prepared to go back to school for the next year of study, sport, and friendship. (We started the Ariel Children’s Clubs, which are named for Elizabeth Glaser’s daughter Ariel, several years ago as support groups for children living with HIV in Uganda.)
Our Ariel Children’s Clubs support and care for many children — one child at a time. In return they make us laugh and cry and wonder. For me, each of the children gives fuller meaning to these two words — hope and resilience.
I have a 93-year-old friend who, despite the fact that I’m already a grandfather, tells me, “Willie, you’re just a kid!” Well, the children make me feel that way too.
Meanwhile, science is improving our prevention efforts. Efficacious preventive medicine is now available to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV and we must ensure that every HIV-positive pregnant woman in Uganda has access to it, until the day comes when we no longer need the Ariel Children’s Clubs. “A generation free of HIV” is not our slogan — it’s our promise and commitment to the children of Uganda and the rest of the world.
The Foundation's Uganda staff raises awareness about pediatric AIDS at the 2008 Kampala Marathon. |
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