“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 [...]
Introduction: The successes of HIV treatment scale-up and the availability of new prevention tools have raised hopes that the epidemic can finally be controlled and ended. Reduction in HIV incidence and control of the epidemic requires high testing rates at population levels, followed by linkage to treatment or prevention. As effective linkage strategies are identified, [...]
Project summary ICOBI is implementing a project aimed at advocating and creating demand for malaria and HIV prevention and treatment services in northern Uganda districts of Lira, Apac, Otuke and Kole. The project is specifically to increase demand and promote social and behavioral change for HIV prevention services (including VMMC, HTC, DREAMS interventions) among the [...]
Background: Combination HIV prevention initiatives incorporate evidence-based, biomedical and behavioral interventions appropriate and acceptable to specific populations, aiming to significantly reduce population-level HIV incidence. Knowledge of HIV serostatus is key to linkages to HIV care and prevention. Household-based HIV counseling and testing (HBCT) can achieve high HIV testing rates. We evaluated HBCT as a platform [...]
Background: A large, district-wide, home-based HIV counselling and testing (HBHCT) programme was implemented in Bushenyi district of Uganda from 2004 to 2007. This programme provided free HBHCT services to all consenting adults of Bushenyi district and had a very high uptake and acceptability. We measured population-level changes in knowledge of HIV status, stigma and HIV-risk [...]
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. [...]
ICOBI is partnering Uganda Health Marketing Group (UHMG) and John Hopkins University (JHU) and is implementing the USAID Uganda Integrated HIV Counselling and Testing in all the 5 divisions in Kampala City. This program which started in September 2013 will run until September 2015. The program aims to increase access to, coverage of, and utilisation [...]
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Home-based, voluntary counselling and testing has found that over 2% of cohabiting couples in the Bushenyi region of Uganda are serodiscordant for HIV. The men in these partnerships are more likely than the women to be HIV-positive, and condom use in these couples is very low, according to a presentation to the Fifteenth Conference on [...]
Presented by Stephen Asiimwe, Uganda. Asiimwe S.1, Muganzi E.1, Tumwesigye E.1, Achom M.2, Tappero J.2 1Integrated Community Based Initiatives (ICOBI), Bushenyi, Uganda, 2Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Kampala, Uganda Objectives: Unprotected sexual intercourse among HIV1 sero discordant individuals in communities with high HIV prevalence may increase the risk of HIV transmission. We assess [...]
