Lake Victoria Islands Community Health and HIV/AIDS

The project seeks to address the lack of medical services including those related to HIV/AIDS for members of isolated communities living on islands in Lake Victoria within the borders of Tanzania or Uganda. It is delivering a comprehensive primary health care intervention package with a focus on HIV/AIDS and mother and child health. Services are delivered through static and mobile clinics to people living in hard-to-reach communities often missed by national-level programming and services. These communities are among the hardest hit by diseases such as HIV/AIDS and other high-burden communicable poverty-linked diseases. This is one of two parts of a projet valued at $499 578. The first part has been completed.