Ending HIV, Together

We want communities in Refugees host communities to thrive, free from the burden of infectious diseases such as HIV. Through our holistic approach that integrates prevention, care, and treatment, we continue searching for new ways to limit the impact of infectious diseases. Explore our initiatives and innovations from replicable models of care to life-saving interventions tailored to the diverse needs of individuals living with HIV.

  Our dedicated team ensures high-quality management of complex cases while supporting referral hospitals in caring for stable HIV patients. This approach optimizes resources, enhances healthcare access, and adapts to various settings with lower HIV prevalence.

Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission

In 2012, IDI launched a program to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. The PMTCT Option B+ initiative provides comprehensive testing for pregnant women and lifelong antiretroviral therapy for HIV-positive mothers. Over the past five years, this approach has achieved zero positive cases among babies born to HIV-positive mothers.

Personalized Care for All

At IDI, we understand that each individual’s healthcare experience is unique. Our specialized clinics provide personalized diagnosis, treatment, and prevention services tailored to each client’s needs. We emphasize individualized care plans to enhance quality of life and empower clients in their health journeys.

Putting Our Friends First

In all our Community activities, HIV prevention is our top priority. We utilize three adaptable models—provider-based, specialist-based, and peer-based—to effectively reach people living with HIV (PLHIV). Our approach emphasizes “prevention through positives,” also known as the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GIPA) ensuring we listen to and collaborate with those affected by HIV for effective solutions to restore  Hope and dignified Living of People Living with HIV in Refugees host communities of West Nile.

Fountains of Hope promotes awareness about discordance and emphasize on couple counselling, expand home based HIV/AIDS counselling, provide post test referral and support services, organize training of community liaison officers to allow continuity of the service in the community and use mass media approaches to changing social values, norms and behaviours

  1. The major aims and purpose of the Organization is to enhance Community access to appropriate HIV/AIDS Information, Counseling and Support.

In view of the above, our key areas of interested interventions are the design and development of;

  1. Specialized Home Based HIV Counseling and Testing (HBHCT) services. This service should run alongside the ability to provide practical life skills especially geared at empowering young girls to have a better say in their sexual lives (they are 3-6% more at risk in Uganda). HBHCT is intended to provide quality home based HIV/AIDS Counseling and testing to individuals, couples and families. Its activities include educating households and communities about the benefits of home based HIV Counseling and testing, conducting pretest counseling sessions with individuals, couples and children in the home, conducting a rapid HIV test, supporting individuals and couples identify safer goal behaviors and develop risk reduction plan as well as supporting individuals and couples to disclose their sero –status and encourage partner testing.

  1. Training tools and programs for young people below 25 years in a bid to build future capacity earlier and co-opt young people in the development of awareness, advocacy and prevention, intervention strategies.

  2. Psychosocial support and mentoring programs for HIV positive youths, HIV/AIDS may have stolen part of their health but should not be allowed to kill off their youth nor destroy their aspirations, dreams and purpose in life and of those around them.

  3. Support and referral. Referral is an important process to ensure that clients access a full range of care and support services as needed. Fountains of Hope will provide appropriate and necessary referrals with the support of networks of people living with HIV/AIDS.

  4. we are able to provide excellent medical care to the new born babies, pregnant mothers and HIV positive living mothers and children in Uganda.

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