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  • Title: Uganda. TASO: living positively with AIDS.
    Author: Hampton J.
    Journal: Child Worldw; 1993; 20(2-3):20-2. PubMed ID: 12179302.
    Abstract:
    Almost 22,000 AIDS cases had been reported to the national AIDS control program in Uganda by December 1990, but there are many more cases which have not been reported. The number of people infected with HIV is many times greater than the number of AIDS cases, with the Ugandan AIDS Control Program estimating in late 1990 that 1.3 million people were HIV-positive. HIV is transmitted in the country primarily through heterosexual intercourse and perinatally from mothers to children. Men and women are infected in equal proportions, with 80% of infections among individuals aged 16-40 and 10% among those aged 0-5 years; almost no one aged 6-15 is infected with HIV. AIDS in Uganda affects all members of the family, either directly or indirectly. In this context and with only one doctor per every 23,000 people in Uganda, the AIDS Support Organization (TASO) was founded as the first organized community response to AIDS in Uganda. The organization provides counseling, AIDS information, nursing care, educational support, and material assistance to approximately 5500 people with HIV or AIDS and their families. Seventeen volunteers founded TASO in November 1987. None of the founding members had training in counseling or experience managing an AIDS support group and twelve of them had HIV or AIDS. Many TASO workers currently are infected with HIV or have AIDS. The author describes the AIDS clinic for children held by TASO every Friday morning at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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