CDC Division of Global HIV & TB Country Profile: Uganda: July 2019

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center for Global Health (U.S.). Division of Global HIV & TB. ; U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
• Description:
  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began its work in Uganda in 1991 with a focus on HIV/AIDS research, officially establishing a country office 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. As one of 13 PEPFAR countries selected for the Accelerating HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control (2017-2020) strategy, CDC supports MOH to build its capacity to respond to HIV and tuberculosis (TB) using a service delivery model integrated within national, regional, and district structures.
  
  CDC’s current focus is to find more persons living with HIV by testing those most at risk; expanding antiretroviral treatment (ART) to all HIV-positive Ugandans immediately upon diagnosis—irrespective of disease staging or CD4 cell count; and scaling-up viral load (VL) testing to monitor for viral suppression. CDC supports TB diagnosis and treatment through systemic integrated screening of patients attending HIV clinics and linkage to HIV care and ART for TB/HIV co-infected patients. CDC also supports programs to reduce new HIV infections through Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission (PMTCT), PEPFAR DREAMS (Determined Resilient Empowered AIDS-Free Mentored Safe), rollout of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), stronger key and priority population (KP) programs, and voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC).
  
  Uganda.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Global Health HIV Infections/prevention & Control Public Health Tuberculosis/prevention & Control
• Series:
  CDC Division of Global HIV & TB Country Profile
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Uganda
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered page
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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