Government expands anti retroviral treatment services

The Uganda AIDS Information centre has started offering Arterial-viral treatment services to all its centers country wide.

The move is aimed at addressing the urgent need of ART services among people living with HIV/AIDS.

The executive director of the Uganda AIDS Information Dr Raymond Byarugaba says the first group of people to benefit will be the discordant couples.

Dr Byarugaba notes that they want to ensure that as they offer free HIV/AIDS testing and counseling and free male circumcision they also provide ART services.

He has also promised to intensify the fight a against the virus among groups that are most at risk

Available statistics from ministry of health indicate that of the one million people living with HIV/AIDS over 300,000 are in urgent need of art and, only half of these have access to Anti retroviral treatment.

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