Objectives
Goals:
Reduction in new infections among children and more children enrolled and retained in treatment.
Objectives:
Families and Communities Empowered – communities are supportive and families take children to HIV services.
Community Structures Strenghtened – Improved coordination between Health Facilities and communities and VHTs and CoRPs.
Improved Coordination and Pediatric Service Delivery – Effectiveness studies and improved service delivery.
Community groups
Children aged 0 through 14 exposed to or living with HIV. Moreover, we target households affected by HIV for Village Savings and Loan Associations.
Background
In Uganda currently an estimated 96,000 children (0-14 yrs) are living with HIV. Only 63% of these children are on treatment. On top of that many children are lost in the treatment cascade, either before or after enrolling into care. Most interventions are health facility based and do not have the capacity to reach the hard-to-reach children. These children can only be traced in the communities where they are born and cared for. The TAFU 2 program approach focuses on strengthening the links between health facilities and community structures, capacitating the community groups, and thus reaching these children.
Only 63% of the estimated 96,000 children (0-14 yrs) who are living with HIV in Uganda, are on treatment.
