In a bid to sustain Aids Information Centre health care services amidst Donor funding short fall, Management of the facility is seeking Public Private Partnership to mobilize resources to the tune of $200million, AIC Executive Director Dr Kenneth Mugisha told this website in an exclusive interview.
According to Mugisha $200million will be used for the construction of three hospitals and establish TB Management hub.
The AIDS Information Centre (AIC) is a catalytic not-for-profit Non-Governmental Organization established in 1990 as a thought-leader in HIV programming, Health Systems Strengthening and Knowledge Management. With 8 Centres of Excellence spread across the country.
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.
Over the years AIC has provided health needs of over 15 million people in Uganda.
“Our core business is Health Service Delivery (Comprehensive, integrated HIV Services e.g 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,” Mugisha explains.
“We treat our patients with the highest level of respect and confidentiality.Going forward we are looking for more Partnerships, Funding and welcome more Clients to Join AIC for professional Services,”Mugisha said.
AIC envisions apopulation free from all preventable health problems in Uganda and beyond and its mission it to contribute towards the elimination of communicable and non-communicable diseases in Africa in a sustainable, collaborative and integrated approach.
Workers Member of Parliament Hon Abdulhu Byakatonda urged government to fund AIC operations saying the facility has supplemented government programmes of treating vulnerable community.
