Through the USAID/local service delivery for HIV/aids activity (USAID/lsda), USAID aims to galvanize its partnership with uganda's nongovernmental health sector to accelerate progress toward HIV…

Through the USAID/local service delivery for HIV/aids activity (USAID/lsda), USAID aims to galvanize its partnership with uganda's nongovernmental health sector to accelerate progress toward HIV epidemic control, enhance country ownership and sustainability. This program will ensure that that local institutions are capably leading the way to epidemic control and maintenance, and ultimately contributing to ending aids in uganda. Epidemic control in uganda will mean that the number of new HIV infections decreases below the total number of aids-related deaths. To achieve this, pepfar has mandated all its supported priority countries to meet the unaids "90-90-90" goals whereby, by 2020, across all sexes and age groups, 90% of people living with HIV know their HIV status; 90% of people who know their status are enrolled on treatment; and 90% of people on treatment have suppressed viral loads. For uganda, the agreed goals are even more ambitious - to achieve "95-95-95" across the treatment cascade. Pepfar and USAID also remain committed to preventing new infections. The majority of ugandans access HIV/aids care and treatment through the public sector. Of the 25% of HIV services provided by non-governmental institutions, 96% are in the private-not-for-profit (pnfp) sector, constituted by faith-based facilities, private non-governmental organizations and community-based organizations. USAID and pepfar are also committed to local institutions taking the lead in achieving and maintaining epidemic control.