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HIV/AIDS AWARENESS CAMPAIGN, COUNSELLING AND TESTING IN KASENGEJJE WAKISO
A project from HOPE SPRINGS HAVEN in Wakiso, Uganda
Community HIV/AIDS Voluntary Counseling and Testing campaign in Kasengejje, Wakiso.
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J. Tukwasibwe from HOPE SPRINGS HAVEN is responsible for this project
HIV and AIDS is one of the biggest challenges we face in Uganda. According to the 2014 Uganda HIV Country Progress Report, Uganda is still classified as a high burden country with high number of persons living with HIV which has continued to increase. The report attributes this to the continuing spread of HIV, and increased longevity among persons living with HIV. The report also revealed that there is still a high number of orphans due to AIDS of about one million. Individuals, families and communities are badly affected by the epidemic. The burden of care falls on the families and children of those who are ill. Often they have already lost a breadwinner and the meager resources they have left are not enough to provide care for the ill person and food for the family. As a result, children who are orphaned are often deprived not only of parental care, but also of financial support. Many of them leave school and have no hope of ever getting a decent education or job. These children who grow up without any support or guidance from adults may become our biggest problem in the future if there is no intervention.
One of the objectives of Hope Springs Haven is to increase the knowledge of HIV/AIDS among the vulnerable girls, their families and communities thereby enabling them make informed and healthy life choices as well as receiving appropriate care. In this regard, Hope Springs Haven in partnership with the Church of Uganda, Kampala Diocese, department of Planning, Health Services and Social Transformation, will conducted a Community HIV/AIDS Voluntary Counseling and Testing campaign in Kasengejje, Wakiso.
The population is mainly peasant farmers but of recent, land in this area has been fragmented and is becoming scarce. There is high rate unemployment in the community. Majority of people survive on brick laying and working in stone quarries. Mothers spend most of the day in quarries with their children for survival. It was found out that men who go to the quarries with trucks to pick stones end up taking girls and abusing them putting them at risk of diseases like HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. In these places people take waragi (local brew) and smoke marijuana (local drug) which increases immorality. There are a number of youths and men who spend most of the day loitering around, drinking and playing games.
The area is generally characterized by high risk sexual behaviors, Low information about HIV /AIDS, early sexual involvement, multiple sexual relationships, Alcohol consumption and Poverty, all of which make the place vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.
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