Kampala Key, Vulnerable and Priority Populations (KVP) News

Tusitukirewamu Group Bwaise with a membership of 390 is a women-led organization that started in 1998.    Our major aims: to be the go to for Safe Motherhood, parenthood, childhood,; provide opportunities to incorporate Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) lifespan events in day to day planning and conversation to promote SRHR equity and optimal SRHR seeking practices; to mobilize women and girls into anti-stigma, anti-discrimination champions; to address the rampant domestic violence and abuse; to join the stable housing coalition for low income earners; to attach and care for OVCs; to enrol many participants Clinical Trials; to be the urban model for community response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Kawempe Division.   Tusitukirewamu is a model semi-rural and urban support space with extensive experience working with government and private practitioners in these key areas: Putting OVCs into school or placing non-school going ones with benefactors; HIV/AIDS care; sc...

What are the verbalised and non-verbalised concerns of the Person Living With HIV? What are the  verbalised and non-verbalised concerns of the provider? This is what this report seeks to bring to light. We hope it will inform your approach to caring for people living with HIV. Despite of ARVs being around for over 20 years, we still have untreated people living with HIV, we still have people living with HIV who cannot get full ARV doses, we still have people living with HIV with high viral load. We developed this report as an advocacy tool as well. We wanted to share a perspective whose narrative is not mainstream because other issues take up the agenda. Yet, the issues we raised here make up the bulk of work needed to eradicate AIDS in Uganda. This report concludes that there are four factors   (subjective motives) which are significant in determining viral suppression:  1.   The time one has taken ARVs;  2.   Optima...