Basics for HIV/AIDS Control Project (BaHiCo)

BaHiCo draws on face-to-face interactions as well as information and communication technologies (ICTs) to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and to mobilise people to take action to fight the disease. Examples of BaHiCo activities include:

• organising seminars and consultative meetings aimed at moblising and informing people about how to prevent and control HIV/AIDS; these encounters are shaped by a participatory methodology
• visiting primary and secondary schools in Luweero and Kampala District to spread information about HIV/AIDS control to students
• giving free HIV/AIDS information to people such as university students, community leaders, youth leaders and peer counselors
• compiling HIV/AIDS resources on its website, such as answered questions by different organisations around the world and links to related organisations so as to promote sharing of HIV/AIDS control information
• providing orphange care to children below the age of 12 who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS, while enabling them to stay in their homes and societies
• involving women in strategic areas of HIV/AIDS control like orphanage care and decision-making related to HIV/AIDS, as well as offering gender mainstreaming ideas to strengthen women's participation in the HIV/AIDS control struggle
• visiting prisons to assess and promote their response to and compliance with HIV/AIDS epidemic control
• visiting hospitals to reassure persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWA) of their continuous role in society
• capacity building of HIV/AIDS youth activists
• HIV/AIDS advocacy, dissemination and senstisation

Children, Youth, HIV/AIDS, Women.

The project's objectives are in line with the Ugandan AIDS Commision, an overall HIV/AIDS control initiative, as well as other HIV/AIDS control organisations working in the country; they include:

• enabling young people to attain skills ao that they can lead and manage the fight against HIV/AIDS
• helping HIV/AIDS orphans access basic care for their survival
• promoting youth HIV/AIDS control activities and helping PLWA, especially youth (mainly girls/women) and children (orphans)
• reducing further spread of HIV/AIDS infection
• strengthening capacity of youth and women to respond to HIV/AIDS epidemic
• mitgating the socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS at individual, household and community levels.