HIV/AIDS: Case Study In Uganda

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HIV/AIDS: Case Study in Uganda

The AIDS Support Organization known as TASO is an important organization in Uganda for people living HIV positive or with AIDS. The success of fighting HIV/AIDS is unprecidented and scientists look upon Uganda as a model. Since the 1980s, HIV/AIDS has been a worldwide problem and Uganda realized the potential problem and began organization early in the beginning of the disease to help Ugandans. Uganda is considered one of the most impoverished nations in the world due to political turmoil and economic decline. Beginning in the early 1980s, the majority of Ugandans are too poor to afford basic health care and the economic burden of HIV/AIDS has placed an even greater economic burden on the individuals. TASO was primarily a support and counseling sevice before Coutinho took over. TASO was started in 1987 and received NGO status in 1991. TASO was important to those living with HIV/AIDS and the
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Previously, TASO had been offering patients nutritional help (starting in 2002) which allowed patients to have a 1,293 calories per day and were able to offer this service to families (up to four family members). Once patients were accustomed to this service, they inquired about receiving ART which caused Coutinho to take his team to see how it could be implemented even though the cost was high. Clinical failure and estimated development of opportunistic infections were low due to the goals of ART. The Case Study writers feel Coutinho should have implemented program modifications that would enable patients to receive ART. ART hinders the disease from spreading, though it is not a cure, which allows the quality of life to increase. Allowing the quality of life to increase and more lives to be extended, further research and progress can be shown with higher survival rates, which would allow soliciting for funding to be more

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