Our Programmes
NAFOPHANU has got a blot of Programmes of which include the following:-
ViiV Break-through Partnership (BP) Program
The VIIV breakthrough is a community project that aims at ending pediatric HIV by 2025 using a strategic framework that centers on resuming focus on providing quality services for children and adolescents living with HIV. The project is implemented in collaboration with Aidsfonds, Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric Foundation (EGPAF), Pediatric–Adolescent Treatment Africa (PATA), United National Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and ELMA Foundation, all being coordinated by ViiV Healthcare. The project runs from August 2020 to July 2024. The Programme is locally implemented by NAFOPHANU, Community Health Alliance Uganda (CHAU) and Health Need Uganda (HNU) in Soroti, Mubende, Mityana and Kyenjojo districts with support from Aidsfonds.
Under the program, NAFOPHANU’s core role is to spearhead advocacy agenda at all levels, empowering children and their caregivers with treatment knowledge, strengthening PLHIV networks as well as working closely with district officials, project partners and other implementing partners in the project areas for improved identification, referral, retention and viral load suppression rates.
So far, 966 People were reached, they include Health workers, Expert Clients, VHTS, Young Positives (YAPS) & PLHIV leaders through sub-county Annual General Meetings, Sub-county AIDS Committee (SAC) meetings, Consortium of Advocates for Access to Treatment (CAAT) meetings, district stakeholders meetings, treatment literacy sessions, HIV status disclosure meetings for caretakers of children, home visits, HIV testing services, Intensive counseling, health education about EMTCT and paediatric HIV, facility based monitoring and evaluation visits, community dialogues and formed 7 PLHIV groups.
Joint Advocacy for Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (JAS) Programme
The JAS program aims at building a progressive social movement boldly challenging the deep structures affecting the realization of SRHR in Uganda. Funded by Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) through the Center for Health Human Rights and Development (CEHURD). The program is implemented in collaboration with Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF), Reach A hand Uganda (RAHU), Uganda Network of Sex Work Led Organisations (UNESCO), The Coalition for Health Promotion and Social Development (HEPS), Akina Mama wa Africa (AMwA) and Center for Health Human Rights and Development (CEHURD). The four-year program is implemented in the districts of Isingiro and Kamuli and started in January 2020 and ends in December 2023.
NAFOPHANU facilitated 60 Expert Clients with airtime, transport and provided them with IEC-branded materials like bags, umbrellas, notebooks, pens and T-shirts to ease their work while providing psychosocial support to PLHIV and affected communities. Built capacity of the expert clients on HIV/SRHR Advocacy and communications skills, conducted and disseminated Community Scorecards survey that was aimed at assessing the beneficiary satisfaction, held Consortium of Advocates for Access to Treatment (CAAT) meetings, besides media tours and community dialogues. A Technical Working Group for HIV Thematic area was formed to oversee the project and it meets every quarter.
Reached 29,446 people with ART delivery, adherence counseling, home visits, follow-up on lost clients, referrals on HIV/TB/Legal aid & COVID-19, health education and community dialogues mainly focusing on GBV and SRHR services such as family planning.
Global Fund Project through TASO (U) LTD
Supporting Uganda’s Response to HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Reduction Strategy (UGA-C-TASO) is a 28 months project which started in September 2021 with funds from Global Fund through The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO). It is implemented in three sub-regions of Karamoja, West Nile and Northern Uganda. As a Sub Recipient, NAFOPHANU is implementing and supporting activities in Karamoja Region, while the Sub-Sub Recipients are the Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) and Uganda Harm Reduction Network (UHRN) implementing in West Nile/ Acholi and Lango / Teso regions respectively.
The targeted districts include; Moroto, Kaabong, Napak, Amudat, Nabilatuk, Nakapiriririt, Abim, Kotido, Dokolo, Amolatar, Lira (City and district), Kitgum, Pader, Maracha, Yumbe and Arua (district and City). These directly implement both HIV and TB activities. Other districts are however implementing TB Contact tracing only. They are; Moyo, Nebbi, Obongi, Pakwach, Zombo, Bukedea, Kaberamaido, Katakwi, Amuria, Kalaki, Kapelebyong, Kumi, Ngora, Serere, Soroti (City and District) and Karenga.
The project implementation is at community, district, regional and national levels under 03 Implementation Modules; Reducing human rights-related barriers to HIV/TB services focusing on Stigma and discrimination reduction, improving laws, regulations and policies relating to HIV/TB, coordination and management of national disease control programs, Community Systems Strengthening including community-based monitoring and community-led advocacy and research, social mobilization, building community linkages and coordination and TB care and prevention.
The following interventions were undertaken; district entry meetings, quarterly coordination meetings, community dialogues, community sensitization meetings, accountability meetings, TB contact tracing, advocacy training and facilitated expert clients with airtime, transport and stipend to reach fellow peers psychosocial support.
USAID/Civil Society Strengthening Activity (CSSA) Treatment Literacy Project
The USAID/CSSA treatment Literacy project is a one-year project (February 2022 to September 2023) funded by USAID/PEPFAR in collaboration with East West Management Institute (EWMI). The project aims at building a resilient treatment-literate community of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) targeting children, adolescents, young people, unsuppressed adults, PLHIV that are newly enrolled to care and those aging with HIV in Northern and West Nile Region covering the districts of Amuru, Gulu, Kitgum, Lamwo, Agago, Zombo, Nebbi, Yumbe, Moyo and Koboko. Key outcomes include viral load suppression and retention in care.
The project supported the District PLHIV Coordinators with 10 Motor Cycles, 10 Laptops and 10 Printers, facilitated Health workers and Expert clients with monthly stipend and issued bicycles to Expert Clients to reach fellow peers with ART and adherence counseling, built capacity of 120 expert clients, 20 Key Populations and 10 PLHIV network leaders with HIV treatment literacy to be able to scale up the information to their peers at health facilities and community levels. Besides, facility-based meetings, monitoring and evaluation visits, community, regional and National dialogues, district coordination meetings, district stakeholder engagement meetings, psychosocial support groups and Expert Clients experience sharing meetings were conducted reaching 11,880 people. The project brought on board Key and Priority Populations (KPs).
NAFOPHANU underwent Organisational Capacity Assessment (OCA) and Advocacy Capacity Assessment (ACA) under the USAID CSSA project.
SRHR Alliance Uganda “We Lead” Project
Funded by HIVOS through the SRHR Alliance Uganda, NAFOPHANU is implementing the We Lead Project that aims at supporting rights holders (Young women in all their diversities) in the districts of Amuru, Gulu and Arua with the aim of impactfully and sustainably advocating for their sexual and reproductive health and rights. NAFOPHANU contributes to intermediate outcome three (3) that focuses on increasing health workers, their understanding and responsiveness to HIV/SRHR integration for rights holders through capacity strengthening and engagement, assessment of service delivery and creation of safe spaces for dialogues with duty bearers and policymakers at various levels.
Activities include support supervision visits, facilitating health management committee meetings, holding accountability foras with duty bearers and supporting PLHIV forum coordination meetings, facilitating rights holders to conduct fact-finding missions, conducting Integrated HIV/SRHR competence strengthening for health workers and service providers and building capacity for rights holders in HIV/SRHR Advocacy. Reached 11,574 people.
We lead a one-year project that started in April 2023 and ends in March 2024.
UNAIDS Post Ebola Response Project
NAFOPHANU is implementing the Post-Ebola response project in districts of Kampala, Wakiso, Mubende, Kasanda, and Kagadi with the aim of mobilizing communities of PLHIV and survivors of Ebola for capacity enhancement and information collection about accessibility and availability of Ebola & HIV services while advocating for improvements in service delivery.
The project is implemented in a consortium of three partners they include NAFOPHANU, Alliance of Women Advocating for Change (AWAC) & Uganda N’eddagala N’obuwangwa Bwafe (UNNB) and targets Ebola survivors, PLHIV, sex workers, traditional healers, motorcycle (boda-boda) riders, truck drivers and other affected community members.
Activities included; community dialogues, a Survey on the impact of Ebola on HIV service delivery in Mubende and Kasanda districts, Stakeholder meetings to disseminate the survey findings, identifications and building capacity of 100 monitors in five districts and issued their leaders with 25 smartphones to be used for collecting and capturing data while the district coordinators were offered tablets, a monthly stipend was provided to monitors and coordinators to ease their work at both facility and community and the SALT helpline was facilitated to offer psychosocial support to both the victims and survivors. Reached 4,923 People.