HIV/AIDS Home Care Programme, Mpigi, Uganda

The Mpigi HIV/AIDS Home Care Programme in Uganda began as a programme where Concern built on a traditional, informal mechanism of grassroots social capital and helped it to become more structured and capacitated in order to deal with the AIDS pandemic.

The prevalence of HIV in Uganda was well known and communities could see on a weekly basis the damage it was doing in terms of illness, incapacitation and death. The programme supported the development of community-based organisations or associations which supported individuals affected by or infected with HIV. The associations provided home care services to people with HIV/AIDS or to their carers and provided traditional herbal remedies as palliative care. The associations also raised awareness on HIV and AIDS and reduced the stigmatisation of those infected.

The programme has been chosen as a case study because it has achieved very positive results in terms of capacity building, impact on beneficiaries, building on a community's spirit of voluntarism, and linking with decentralised structures and local government. These issues are discussed in the case study as well ways of how Concern has sought to deal with them.

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