Serving Uganda’s Key Populations and Priority Populations with Diligence and Dedication: A Vignette Project- Part (3)

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Community Systems Strengthening (CSS) and Integrated Service Delivery (ISD)

These recent years have seen organizations addressing equity, intersectionality, inclusivity, diversity of persons and needs, dignity-affirmation, and regard for respectful conduct. We are increasingly addressing setting contexts for empowering each other and promoting humane conduct.  These are themes that have evolved over time, and they are the operative words that make the SDGs achievable. The SDGs relate to the reduction of inequalities at the heart of all approaches to guide and drive action in every country and community. A comprehensive framework is needed for transformative actions to confront these inequalities and, more broadly, respect, protect and fulfil human rights in the HIV/TB/Malaria response. By reducing the inequalities driving the AIDS epidemic, we can close the gaps for HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and support by 2025 and put the world back on course to end AIDS by 2030.

These themes prompt quite several questions: how is our organization talking about social-economic rights in the same breath as we address the healthcare needs of the beneficiaries? This is what it means to work within the care continuum spectrum.

How are we aligned with the Global Fund funding models? Are we promoting participation by the organizations we work with to contribute to further engagement in activities that contribute to the eradication of HIV/TB/Malaria by 2030 integrating COVID-19 Prevention?

The new Global AIDS Strategy (2021–2026) seeks to reduce the inequalities that drive the AIDS epidemic and put people at the center to get the world on-track to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Therefore, what are some of the funding goals or models expected of organizations? Some examples include Community Led-Monitoring (CLM); Community of Practice (COP); Resilient and Sustainable Systems of Health (RSSH); Public-Private Mix (PPM); COVID-19 Response and Recovery; Social Support and Protection Networks (SSPN); Integrated Service Delivery (ISD); and Moving toward the three zeros (zero new HIV infections, zero AIDS-related deaths and zero discrimination). All these efforts are to keep people at the center and aim to unite countries, communities, and partners across and beyond the HIV/TB/Malaria response to take prioritized actions to accelerate progress towards the vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths. The efforts seek to empower people with the programmes and resources they need to exercise their rights, protect themselves and thrive in the face of HIV/TB/Malaria integrating COVID-19 Response and Recovery.














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