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Caring for Families and Strengthening AIDS-affected Communities: New Evidence from Uganda  

Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Families and communities play an important role in mitigating the impact of HIV. Yet their contributions can be greatly enhanced by appropriate support, resources, and coordination. With funding from USAID/Uganda under Project SEARCH, the Population Council and its partners recently completed several research and evaluation activities that examined the role of families and communities in the HIV response in Uganda. Please join us to hear highlights on:

Evaluation of the Project for Expanding the Role of Networks of People Living With HIV/AIDS
Implemented by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, this project sought to increase the involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in the HIV/AIDS response and to improve access to and utilization of prevention, treatment, care, and support services for PLWHA households. The end-of-project evaluation, conducted by Jhpiego, examined the effectiveness of the project design, strategies, and performance, and the extent to which the project contributed to greater and meaningful involvement by PLWHA. (PDF)

Evaluation of Hospice Africa Uganda
Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU) is a nongovernmental organization that provides palliative care services to people living with HIV/AIDS and cancer. The QED Group, LLC, conducted an end-of-project evaluation to better understand HAU's strategic approaches and the effect they have had on the uptake of palliative care services. It also compared HAU's approaches with those of other palliative care service providers in Uganda, as well as with international standards of palliative care, to elucidate the degree to which HAU could become a model for other resource-constrained countries. (PDF)

Protecting Hope: Situation Analysis of Vulnerable Children in Uganda
The Government of Uganda has focused on the problem of orphaned and other vulnerable children through a number of policies, regulations, and initiatives. However, policymakers, donors, and program managers still lack comprehensive and up-to-date information about the numbers, geographic distribution, characteristics, and needs of this population. The situation analysis, conducted by the Population Council in partnership with Mathematica Policy Research and the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, included a nationally representative household survey to estimate and characterize vulnerable children in Uganda, as well as a cost analysis of delivering services to this population. (PDF)

Related project: HIV/AIDS Evaluation, Assessment, and Formative Research

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Agenda

9:30–9:40 am	Welcome and Introductory Remarks Naomi Rutenberg, Vice President and Director, HIV and AIDS Program, Population Council Benny Kottiri, Health Science Administrator and Team Lead for Research, Project SEARCH, USAID/Washington
9:40–9:45 am	Introductions Around the Room
9:45–9:55 am	Overview of the HIV/AIDS Evaluation, Assessment, and Formative Research Task Order Deborah Weiss, HIV and AIDS Program Manager, Population Council
9:55–10:35 am	Evaluation of the Project for Expanding the Role of Networks of People Living With HIV/AIDS Natasha Sakolsky, US Director, International HIV/AIDS Alliance Young-Mi Kim, Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor, Jhpiego
10:35–10:50 am	Break
10:50–11:20 am	Evaluation of Hospice Africa Uganda Annette Bongiovanni, Director, Health Practice, QED
11:20 am–12:00 pm	Protecting Hope: Situation Analysis of Vulnerable Children in Uganda Katie Schenk, Associate, Population Council Minki Chatterji, Senior Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research Arif Mamun, Research Economist, Mathematica Policy Research
12:00–12:05 pm	Closing Remarks

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