Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC ) has hailed the First Lady, Hon. Janet K. Museveni for spearheading the combined strategy to reduce the scourge of HIV and AIDS in Uganda.
“Between 2011 and 2015, Uganda managed to achieve 86% reduction of all new HIV infections. This impressive gain in reduction has been made possible through a combined strategy spearheaded by the First Lady, Hon. Janet K. Museveni and other partners,” Uganda AIDS Commission says in a statement.
The Commission further says that during the just concluded High Level meeting on ending HIV and AIDS that was held in New York two weeks ago, Uganda was singled out as one of the Sub Saharan Africa that managed to achieve the highest percentage of reductions in new HIV infections.
Some of these gains include;
Reduction in number of new HIV infections from 162,000 in 2011 to 83,000 by Dec 2015
The number of persons on Antiretroviral Treatment has increased from 329,000 in 2011 to 834,931 by the close of 2015.
Reduction in the number of persons dying from AIDS from 63,000 in 2011 to 28,000 by Dec 2015
No of new babies born with HIV reduced from 29,000 in 2011 to 3,200 in 2015
“The success of the eMTCT campaign is a clear example of some of the immediate approaches that we need to sustain in order to reach our key 2030 global targets of ending AIDS,” UAC says
The Commission will on Thursday 30th June, 2016 see off the Country Director of UNAIDS – Musa Bungundu and the Irish AID HIV/AIDS focal person Mary Oduka.
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