Uganda: Hospital to offer free home-based HIV testing, counselling to Aids patients

Kisubi Hospital, with support from the International Aids Vaccine Initiative has embarked on providing free home based HIV/Aids testing and counselling services. International Aids Vaccine Initiative is an international organisation whose mission is to fight Aids by speeding the development of a safe, effective, and affordable vaccine to prevent the disease. Speaking at the official launch of the Home Based HIV Counselling and Testing Project at the hospital on March 3, the project coordinator, Dr Bruce Kirenga, said counselling and testing was voluntary and would take a period of six months.