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CDC Division of Global HIV & TB country profile : Uganda
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September 2022
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Description:In 1991, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) started work in Uganda focused on conducting HIV and AIDS research, and an official country office was established in 2000. With the launch of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in 2003, Uganda became a focus country for the program delivering high quality HIV services. Currently, CDC supports Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MOH) and numerous implementing partners (most of them local institutions) to strengthen HIV and TB prevention and control efforts. Using an integrated service delivery model, CDC’s current focus is to find more persons living with HIV (PLHIV) by testing those most at risk; expanding antiretroviral therapy (ART) to all PLHIV in Uganda immediately upon diagnosis—irrespective of disease staging or CD4 cell count; and scaling-up viral load (VL) testing to monitor for viral suppression. CDC also supports TB diagnosis, preventive therapy, and treatment among PLHIV through systemically integrated screening of clients attending HIV clinics and linking them to HIV care and ART for TB/HIV co-infected clients—including pediatric services for TB/HIV co-infected children.
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