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With a focus on infectious diseases, IDI operates in five main areas: Prevention, Care and Treatment: IDI supports over 100,000 HIV+ people across Uganda in both urban and rural settings in Uganda (both directly, and in partnership with government and non-government health facilities). This translates into about 10% of the national effort.
Uganda's health system is composed of health services delivered to the public sector, by private providers, and by traditional and complementary health practitioners. It also includes community-based health care and health promotion activities.
The disease affected children aged 5–15 years, mainly in the Acholi sub-region and a few in the Lango sub-region. [71] Over 3,000 confirmed cases were documented as of 2012, with Uganda having the highest number of cases in the world. [72] The disease has profound health effects on children, families, and communities. [73]
The Uganda Program on Cancer and Infectious Diseases (UPCID), established in 2004, is a joint program between Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and the Uganda Cancer Institute. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The program works to understand and treat infection-related cancers in the United States and abroad.
Uganda was one of the first developing countries to offer life-saving treatment to people infected with HIV. According to UNAIDS, new infections among children decreased from 27,000 in 2009 to 15,000 in 2012, a 49% drop and the number of women with access to prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV assistance also increased at a fast ...
A doctor examines a patient in a health clinic that supports HIV/AIDS programs and treatment in Kampala, Uganda, on June 1, 2023. ... services for these prison camps, but they've been reliant on ...
The largest state-owned hospital in Uganda is Mulago Hospital in Kampala with around 1,500 beds. It was built in 1962. [1]Ian Clarke, a physician and missionary from Northern Ireland, [2] built the 200-bed International Hospital Kampala, [3] which was the first International Organization for Standardization-certified hospital in the country.
In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, where USAID oversees services including HIV prevention and treatment, girls and women ages 15 to 24 are three times more likely to contract the virus than boys ...