Background: ICOBI received an award from PEPFAR through CDC to implement a project entitled “Provision of Full Access Home-Based (Door-to-Door) Confidential HIV Counseling and testing (HBHCT) and Basic Care in High HIV Prevalence Central districts of the Republic of Uganda in five years. This program which began in July 2008 aims to contribute to the [...]
The ICOBI Community PMTCT is a CDC funded five (5) year project, that covers ten districts of South Western Uganda (Bushenyi, Sheema Mitooma, Rubirizi, Buhweju, Ntungamo, Mbarara, Ibanda, Kiruhura and Isingiro) with estimated 2,776,188 (F: 1,434,577, M: 1,341,611) beneficiaries. The project area covers 5,727 villages, 641 parishes and 132 sub-counties in the ten districts of [...]
In partnership with various higher institutions of learning, ICOBI is conducting MP3 and RC4 research targeting individualized HIV prevention Referral for HIV care and medical male circumcision respectively. Using participatory approaches, the organization raises awareness and helps people to test for HIV and other STI and encourages people in communities to seek medical care MP3 [...]
ICOBI with support from the University of Washington has been implementing an MP3 study in Bubare Sub County since November 2011. This study has been covering the 6 parishes of Bubare. The study is entitled “HIV Treatment and prevention through Home based HIV Counseling and Testing and facilitated referral in Uganda and South Africa”. This [...]
2001-2004: ICOBI with support from the Ministry of Health, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatrics AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), and AIM and Bushenyi local government implemented a two-year VCT and PMTCT Programme to prevent the transmission of HIV from mothers to their children in 15 health units. 2004-2007: Lead Agency in the UGFATM – HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS/OVC Round [...]
Renewed emphasis on the primary health care approach and high demand for basic services in rural and hard-to-reach areas has driven the need for alternative methods of basic health service delivery such as Mobile Health Units (MHUs). ICOBI is using an integrated model, including trucks, bicycles or foot travel to nearby communities to deliver the much [...]
Jussy Mujuni a 37 year old widow of Bwegiragye cell, Ward IV, Bushenyi Ishaka Town Council .has four children and a person living with HIV. She tested for HIV in 1992 having had frequent illnesses and at the same time her husband had developed Herpes Zoster. The husband had tested for HIV but had not [...]
Giramatsiko post test club started as a small group of 7 members who had tested for HIV and were HIV infected (they later nicknamed HIV/AIDS “smart”). Faced with this situation they started this group to support each other. They believed that one cannot fully access care and support services with out disclosure, family and community [...]
“I used to be weak, with frequent fevers, skin rash and I had lost weight” Mawanda Magezi a 42 years old resident of Buccuma village, Kigoma parish- Nyabubare-Bushenyi district, narrates as he recalls how his health conditions used to be before he knew his HIV status. Mawanda is farmer but a retired solider and a [...]
Integrated Community Based Initiatives-ICOBI started to implement the Community Pathways to Family Planning Project in February, 2013. ICOBI received support from Mariestopes Uganda to conduct community mobilization activities for Long-term and permanent methods. ICOBI works through the VHT network in both Districts with very close collaboration with the District Health Officers of the respective Districts. [...]
