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In Uganda, MSF offers HIV care, supports victims of sexual and gender-based violence in refugee settlements, and provides adolescents with sexual and reproductive health.

Our work in Uganda

Hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled to northern Uganda following violence in South Sudan. Uganda is currently the largest refugee hosting country in Africa.

What's happening in Uganda?

We are working to provide medical care, mother and child health services, and water and sanitation activities for South Sudanese refugees who have fled to Uganda.

Although the number of new cases per year has been declining, seven percent of the population (about 1.5 million people) is HIV positive.

We offer point-of-care viral load testing in Arua regional hospital, which facilitates rapid detection and early treatment, leading to improved outcomes for patients.

In Kasese, we run a clinic providing basic and comprehensive health care to adolescents, including sexual and reproductive health services, and HIV and tuberculosis (TB) prevention, screening, and treatment.

In 2020, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, including health promotion messages in communities.

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How we're helping in Uganda

In Kasese, MSF's adolescent clinic provides sexual and reproductive health care, including pre- and postnatal care for teenage mothers, in a safe, youth-friendly environment. Awareness-raising and recreational activities encourage youngsters to come for consultations and health education. In 2020, these services were moved to a public health facility to facilitate access and decrease stigma.

The COVID-19 pandemic and strict hygiene measures forced the suspension of recreational activities, resulting in slightly reduced attendance. MSF also offers HIV care to the fishing communities around nearby lakes George and Edward, a high-risk group for HIV infection due to time spent away from home, a cash-based income, and the presence of sex workers in fishing ports. In collaboration with local authorities and other providers, we tailor HIV services to the specific needs and habits of these communities.

Our HIV project in Arua is integrated into the local HIV care infrastructure and focuses on children and adolescents, and on patients with advanced HIV disease or a high viral load. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted physically distanced consultations. However, we lost contact with our Congolese cross-border patients from March when lockdown measures were implemented and were unable to provide them with medication. While most of our cross-border patients resumed their treatment in July, our efforts to trace around 13 percent of them were unsuccessful.

Also in Arua, MSF outreach activities support victims of sexual violence in the Omugo and Imvepi refugee settlements, hosting hundreds of thousands of mainly South Sudanese refugees who fled conflict in their homeland. Mental health support for refugees and host communities is available too.

We stand ready to respond to emergencies such as disease outbreaks and displacement caused by natural disasters or violence.

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How we're helping in 2020

29,000

Outpatient consultations

7,820

Individual mental health consultations

1,820

People on first-line ARV treatment under direct MSF care

1,480

People on second-line ARV treatment under direct MSF care

680

People treated for sexual violence

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