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PEPFAR Funds To Leverage HIV Prevention Targeting Key Populations in Uganda

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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...