HIV/AIDS Control Project

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The HIV/AIDS Control Project will support Uganda's National Strategic Framework, which aims at reducing the spread of HIV infection, mitigate the health, and socioeconomic impact of HIV/AIDS at individual, household, and community levels, and strengthen the national capacity to respond to the epidemic. The project components will: 1) support HIV control activities, coordinated by the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC), which would include capacity building to enhance UAC role. Implementation of legal initiatives will be promoted concerning ethical and human rights issues related to HIV/AIDS, and, project support to HIV-related research, and knowledge management will be coordinated, within different line ministries, and other national government agencies, as well as with civil society organizations, and the private sector; 2) support district initiatives, carried out by district authorities, or the private sector, which include raising awareness on prevention, and mitigation of HIV/AIDS, training, and, provision of related diagnosis, treatment, and care services; and, 3) support community- and civil society-led HIV control initiatives, targeting support to orphans, and the most vulnerable, as well as promoting, and providing home-based care through community-based information, education, and communication on preventing the transmission of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections.