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Home About Uganda HIV AIDS in Uganda Uganda Aids Commission Aids Control Project HIV/AIDS Situation Analysis What is NADIC Resources Research updates National updates Practical Information Statstical updates Annual Report FAQs Useful links AIDS Information Centre Contacts Feed back Uganda HIV/AIDS Control Project (UACP) Uganda was among the first hard hit countries by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

The aims of Hospice Africa are to provide palliative care to terminally ill cancer patients in the African setting or to support the provision of such care. The organisation is attempting to achieve these aims in two ways: By providing a direct, home-based palliative care service to people living within a 20 km radius of Kampala. By establishing a phased education programme which provides training for health professionals and volunteers in the skills of palliative care . The first phase involves training pe

Data from the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Public Health Department of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana US.

PR Newswire article. Pasteur Merieux Connaught (Rhone-Poulenc Group) today announced that the first AIDS vaccine trial in Africa has started, using the company's ALVAC-HIV (vCP205) canarypox vaccine. The candidate vaccine, which will be given to 40 healthy volunteers in Uganda, has previously been studied in 800 volunteers in France and the United States, and has no serious side effects.