Cost-effective, community-based campaign making HIV screening accessed en masse in rural Uganda, by taking free HIV testing services down to the local villages, as a tool to defuse the spread of HIV.
The project is tackling HIV prevention and control, focusing on the rural population. Launched in the fall of 2008, in rural Wabulenga, Jinja District, an average of 100 people get tested on every HIV testing day across the villages we have mobilized. Massive HIV screening is a glaring need. Given that Uganda has a million people living with HIV/AIDS, this needs to happen swiftly if huge numbers of death are to be averted.
We conduct mobile HIV counseling and testing, preceded by a needs assessment and HIV sensitization sessions that are useful to mobilize people for the HIV testing day.
This project will make HIV testing accessible to more than 2000 people. Testing negative creates a powerful motivation to reduce risk behaviors and remain uninfected, testing positive gives opportunity to get into treatment sooner.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
