HOME OUR STORY OUR WORK OUR NEWS JOIN US HIV/AIDS A key population peer leader provides sex workers with education on safe sex practices and benefits of PrEP for HIV prevention at ATGWU Drop-in Centre – a clinic dedicated to providing health services – in Busia District, Uganda. Photo credit: USAID RHITES-EC HIV/AIDS Home » HIV/AIDS URC is committed to helping people living with HIV and is proud to commemorate World AIDS Day alongside others working to stop the HIV pandemic and address structural inequalities in health care. Read about our impact. Increasing Identification of HIV-Positive Clients in Uganda Pediatric HIV Audit Tool Improves Enrollment of Children on HIV Treatment Increasing HIV Viral Load Suppression in Central Uganda Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic URC has helped more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin and North America implement HIV programs to create better health outcomes for underserved and vulnerable populations. Working with local health care providers, community leaders, patient advocates, and government officials, we identify gaps in service delivery processes then develop and scale up best practices to achieve sustainable improvements. Our programs are designed to advance the US Global Health Initiative objective of creating an AIDS-free generation. URC’s HIV work aims to: Improve the quality, availability, and consistency of HIV testing and treatment; Prevent HIV transmission, including reducing the stigma for getting tested and seeking treatment; and Conduct research that helps us to carry out the most effective programs possible. Through global and bilateral projects, such as ASSIST, HEARD, and HCI, our work has focused on developing local capacity to apply a systems approach and proven quality improvement methods to achieve rapid improvements in HIV/AIDS service delivery and uptake. Our collaborative model has been used to prevent new HIV infections and increase the use and effectiveness of HIV services for key populations and reduce stigma and discrimination towards people living with HIV. Helping communities fight HIV/AIDS “URC works with communities to provide treatment and support for people living with HIV and AIDS. We improve health worker knowledge and performance and engage with the key populations most at risk of contracting the virus.” Beth Turesson Senior Technical Advisor – Infectious Diseases URC has 13 active projects centered around HIV/AIDS in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Through these projects, URC uses approaches in health system strengthening, research and evaluation, quality improvement, and social and behavior change to identify and address gaps in HIV health services by focusing on strengthening health and community systems and improving the quality of services. For example, URC leads the Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs (DHAPP) in Niger, Uganda, and Eswatini to reduce the number of new HIV infections and other sexually transmitted infections among military members, their families, and the civilian communities served by these militaries. Through the scale up of the Nigerien Armed Forces (FAN) antiretroviral therapy program to achieve the UNAIDS 95-95-95 goals in Niger, Niger-DHAPP has increased the number of military facilities providing HIV testing (from 10 to 18) and the number of military facilities providing HIV care and treatment (from four to 15), which has helped identify more than 53% of HIV positive cases in FAN. URC also works to increase the access and utilization of quality HIV health services in the Acholi region of northern Uganda and in East Central Uganda through the USAID RHITES N-Acholi and USAID RHITES-EC projects. By strengthening the capacity of districts and communities to increase access to and utilization of quality, integrated health services, we have supported 331 health facilities in Uganda to date. Projects View all of our HIV/AIDS projects Expertise Brief Download our HIV/AIDS brief News Increasing Identification of HIV-Positive Clients in Uganda December 1, 2021 Pediatric HIV Audit Tool Improves Enrollment of Children on HIV Treatment December 1, 2021 Increasing HIV Viral Load Suppression in Central Uganda Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic December 1, 2021 5404 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 800 Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815 Phone: (301) 654-8338 Fax: (301) 941-8427 FOLLOW US HOME PRIVACY POLICY CONTACT ETHICS HOTLINE © 2021 University Research Co., LLC. All Rights Reserved