AIC boasts of a national footprint, providing comprehensive HIV prevention, care, and treatment services, TB/HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services to adolescents and young people, particularly Key and Priority Populations (KP/PPs) such as Female Sex Workers. AIC meets the health needs of over 15 million people in Uganda.
Our core business is Health Service Delivery, which includes comprehensive integrated HIV services such as HIV Testing Services (HTS), Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART), TB screening and management, Sexual and Reproductive Health (family planning, Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC), Cervical Cancer Screening, STI screening and management), Gender-Based Violence prevention and Post-Violence Care, Social support and protection for Children (OVC programming), DREAMS, Key Populations Programming, Health Systems Strengthening (HSS), Global Health Security (GHS), Refugees Humanitarian Response, One Health Approach (OHA), and Knowledge Management.
We treat our patients with the highest level of respect and confidentiality. We have a dedicated team of medical specialists to attend to our patients and have set up strong cloud and onsite electronic data management systems to ensure the safety of our patients’ data. We are looking forward to more partnerships, funding, and welcome more patients to join AIC for professional services.
Overall goal: To ensure strong facility and community systems to strengthen the continuum of TB prevention, screening, diagnosis, care and treatment at Uganda Cares Clinic-Owino and surrounding communities by September 2026.
Specific Objectives:
AIC supports Uganda Cares Clinic Owino, to provide HIV/AIDS services to people living with HIV (PLHIV). The surrounding community is comprised of Owino Market, Bus Terminals and Shopping Arcades, as well as Kisenyi ghetto/slum area; which are characterized by overcrowding, poor housing conditions, poverty and poor nutrition. Owino market alone is the major shopping area for most of the poor populations from all over the country, including neighboring countries such as Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, among others. Kisenyi slum is also a host to many urban refugees from Somalia, DRC and Eritrea who live in overcrowded and squalid conditions. Given that TB is a disease of poverty, all these conditions spur the transmission of TB in this community, making it a TB hotspot area. This calls for increased TB screening, increased uptake of TPT among the PLHIV seeking care at Uganda Cares Clinic-Owino, and raising awareness about TB among the surrounding communities through Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM). There is also poor retention in TB care at Uganda Cares Clinic-Owino at only 85%, given the mobility of urban populations. This calls for innovative TB patient retention strategies including use of Community Linkage Facilitators (CLFs), digital technologies and artificial intelligence. AIC through the Community-Facility Action to improve TB case detection and treatment outcomes project in Uganda Cares Clinic-Owino and surrounding communities in Kampala City Central Division will focus on bridging the gap between the community and facility health care system by strengthening health facility and community TB screening, timely diagnosis, treatment, retention in care and management as well as referrals and linkages.
AIDS Information Centre-Uganda (AIC) Kabale branch was established in 2004 to provide quality HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) for HIV but has since grown and provides integrated comprehensive HIV prevention, care and treatment services. The branch was founded as a result of growing demand from people who wanted to know their HIV status in the South Western Region. Between 2015-2020, AIC Kabale implemented the USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in South West (RHITES) covering Kabale, Rubanda, Kisoro and Kanungu Districts.
Project Duration: 2020-2025 (5 years project)
Under the USAID/Uganda Local Service Delivery for HIV/AIDS Activity (LSDA), AIC Mbarara is fostering comprehensive health integrated services in communities, strengthening referral and linkages, strengthening existing health institutions and community systems, increasing adoption of health behaviours in communities and strengthening Monitoring & Evaluation of Health systems in Mbarara District. The project thematic areas include: HIV Prevention, HIV testing Services, PMTCT, HIV care and treatment, TB services, Logistics management, Laboratory Services, Human resources for Health, and Monitoring and Evaluation.
Project Goal: Strengthened quality and sustainability of PNFP HIV service delivery to effectively support AIDS by 2030 achievement of the Government of Uganda and PEPFAR goals of reaching and maintaining HIV epidemic control by 2030.
AIDS Information Centre-JINJA is currently implementing the USAID LSDA/UPMB project with the aim of strengthening TB and HIV responses among the Key and Priority Populations for a period of 10 months (December 2023 – September 2024). The CSO is supporting TASO Jinja, ST Benedict, and AIC Jinja facilities to create demand and utilization of services for HTS, PrEP CT, PrEP New, TB case identification, client retention, viral load uptake, referral of pregnant mothers for ANC1, and GBV referral through community mobilization and linkage.
Through these activities, AIC CSO is contributing to Uganda’s efforts in reaching and sustaining epidemic control.
Goal: To support the achievement of the Government of Uganda and PEPFAR goals of reaching and maintaining HIV epidemic control and ending AIDS by 2030 by providing managerial, financial, and technical assistance to PNFPs including Faith-Based and NGO Health Facilities, and CSOs.
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AIC Lira is one of the Community-based CSOs sub-granted to implement the USAID/UPMB LSDA in Lira City and Oyam district. The facilities allocated for support under the UPMB_AIC Lira sub-agreement were again shifted from those in Oyam to ones (5 facilities) in Lira City.
AIC Kabale, a key population (KP) focused Centre, is working with JCRC as an indigenous CSO to support facility and community programs in scaling up and strengthening health service delivery for high-risk key and priority populations in the districts of Kanungu and Rukungiri across six facilities. AIC Kabale is running a Fixed Amount Award (FAA) to support facility and community-based HIV prevention services along the KP clinical cascade and services layering that include:
AIC – Mbale is currently implementing the USAID LSDA/UPMB project as a CSO with the aim of strengthening TB and HIV responses among the Key and Priority Populations for a period of 10 months (December 2023 – September 2024). The CSO is supporting TASO – Mbale and AIC-Mbale facilities to create demand and utilization of services for HTS, PrEP CT, PrEP New, TB case identification, client retention, VL uptake, referral of pregnant mothers for AND1, and GBV referral through community mobilization and linkage.
Through these activities, AIC CSO is contributing to Uganda’s efforts in reaching and maintaining epidemic control.
AIC is supporting UNRA to achieve the overall objective of the project which is “To manage and mitigate risks of VAC and GBV caused by labour influx due to road works.”
The overall objective is to be achieved through implementation of specific objectives that include:
Objective 1: To implement measures that prevent and respond to GBV and VAC due to labour influx on the project
Goal: To contribute to a reduction in new HIV infections among Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) in their diversity in Uganda through innovative ARV-based prevention approaches.
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Target Beneficiaries
Goal: To contribute to a reduction in new HIV infections among Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) in their diversity in Uganda through innovative ARV-based prevention approaches.
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Target Beneficiaries
AIC Mbarara collaborated with TASO, LPHS-ANKOLE Project to particularly address identified gaps in response to Care and Treatment for HIV and TB, ensuring retention and viral load suppression in 18 supported facilities of Mbarara District and Mbarara City.
Project Goal
Contribute to the achievement of the 95, 95, 95 UNAIDS targets for ending HIV/AIDS by 2030 through strengthening Health Facilities and Community Structures capacity to scale up, sustain and maintain the response for HIV control through evidence-based high-impact interventions in the Ankole region of Uganda.
To support the implementation of a District-based package of quality integrated HIV/AIDS and TB services to contribute to significant, measurable, and sustainable impact on beneficiary populations in Mbarara District and Mbarara city in South-Western Uganda, by 30th September 2025.
To increase access to timely Integrated HIV and TB treatment, adherence and retention support among PLHIV to 95% by September 2025.
To support the provision of comprehensive technical support and mentorship at public HIV sites and community systems for provision of quality HIV health service delivery in the district of Mbarara and Mbarara city.
