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Uganda Health Initiatives for the Private Sector (HIPS) Project

In coordination with Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Mildmay Centre, and O’Brien and Associates International, Cardno Emerging Markets USA, Ltd. leads the Health Initiatives for the Private Sector (HIPS) project. HIPS aims to expand access to AIDS treatment through a Global Development Alliance (GDA) partnership model, in which companies open treatment services to community members with technical support from HIPS. Other organizations this model can be found in the FHI Gold Star HIV/AIDS provider network and in Botswana, Ghana, and Tanzania. While this model reduces the service delivery burden carried by the MOH, one of the challenges in Uganda is whether or not the MOH can continue to provide ARVs to the private sector in light of reduced availability of free ARVs from the donor community and the MOH's responsibility to first provide ARVs to the public sector. To learn more, please visit http://www.ugandahips.com./