1. Promoting leadership, accountability and impact in the HIV response through strengthening critical partnerships, creating an enabling environment, and developing robust implementation plans to optimize HIV service delivery and uptake free from stigma and discrimination.
2. Supporting cities to coordinate the collection, analysis and reporting of available strategic information and data on the HIV epidemic and response, and facilitating the use of data to track progress, including on the Fast-Track city dashboards, and to inform the necessary action for fast-tracking the response.
3. Launching city-specific dashboards featuring HIV treatment, care and prevention continua, 90- 90-90, and other data (e.g., TB), mapping local HIV services, promoting accountability for local AIDS responses, and communicating forward momentum towards target attainment.
4. Building clinician, other care providers and community capacity to facilitate optimized HIV care and prevention continuum, including within the context of comorbid diseases (e.g., TB), using data to focus education and support activities.
5. Conducting stigma elimination education for care providers, including around non-stigmatizing communication between providers and patients, and coordinate a process for health facilities to develop and implement action plans to eliminate HIV-specific and -related stigma.
6. Building on the implementation plan developed or supported through objective 1, to assess and address barriers to accessing and utilizing HIV care and prevention services through: 1. measuring PLHIV perceptions of quality of care (QoC); 2. Maintaining a best practices repository documenting interventions, policies, and strategic practices with measurable outcomes in optimizing HIV prevention and care continua; and 3. Disseminating best practices that have had a measurable impact in optimizing HIV care continua and improving the QoC of accessed by PLHIV through local workshops.

Fast Track Cities project in Uganda: With funding support from UNAIDS, AMICAALL Uganda Chapter in partnership with Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA’s five divisions) are implementing activities of the first two objectives of the fast track cities project.

Objectives 1: To Promote leadership, accountability and impact in the HIV response through strengthening critical partnerships, creating an enabling environment, and developing robust implementation plans to optimize HIV service delivery and uptake free from stigma and discrimination.

1.2 Promote leadership and shared accountability for a sustainable response to HIV, TB and STIs

 Activity: (i) Engage and orient city leaders on the Kampala Fast-Track Cities Project

Activity: (ii) Support functionality of the Divisional AIDS Committees chaired by the Division Mayors

Convene Quarterly accountability meetings of city and political leaders, partners, private sector and stakeholders to assess progress in the HIV response (Forum for mayors) at Division level

 Convene Annual  accountability meetings of city and political leaders, partners, private sector and stakeholders to assess progress in the HIV response  (Forum for Lord Mayor) at City level

Activity: (iv) Identify champions for specific interventions

Activity: (v) Advocacy campaigns by selected champions on TVs and radios (Sound bites) including message development/ talking points

Support the development and operationalization of a robust and strategic city implementation plan, aligned to national and other strategic plans

Support Division AIDS Committee members to conduct field and supportive supervision visits

1.2(v) Organize advocacy campaigns  by City HIV key stakeholder (PLHIV, KPs and Experts) on  radios, social media platforms and in communities

13.(iv)Updating of the mobile app by technical assistant bi-annual

Objective 2: Objective 2: Supporting cities to coordinate the collection, analysis and reporting of available strategic information and data on the HIV epidemic and response, and facilitating the use of data to track progress, including on the Fast-Track city dashboards, and to inform the necessary action for fast-tracking the response

2.1 Strengthen the collection, analysis and use of strategic information on the HIV epidemic and response

Activity: (i) Creation of a separate tool to collect KVP data in the City. (Partners to submit the data)

Activity: (ii) Analysing  KVP data for the different sectors

2.1(ii) Development  of city/ division specific SI related products such as bulletins, score cards and update the division profiles on a quarterly basis

Printing of the developed city/ Division specific SI related products such as bulletins ,score cards and update the division profiles on a quarterly basis

Training the Division and City health teams on the main Key Population data system used by the major partners (in this case focusing on the system used by IDI)

To strengthening PMTCT/EMTCT services targeting 20 ANC/maternity/PNC health units feeding into Naguru hospital maternity unit in Nakawa Division, UNAIDS facilitated AMICAALL to implement the following activities

Activity 1.  Support monthly Stipend for mama ambassadors to support in the provision of adequate education.

Activity 2:  Conduct Facility Family Support Group Meetings to reduce stigma, consequences and to improve retention, and

Activity 3: Conduct male action group meetings to improve male involvement to improve ANC attendance,

Activity 5: Conducting regular participatory data quality assessments on sampled indicators and map trends of data quality to determine improvement is implemented by a team of data analysts

Activity 4:  Conducting mentorship and supportive supervision visits for frontline health workers tailored around ANC uptake,

Activity6: Service quality assessment at PrEP sites to assess competence of Prep Providers on availability of materials on Prep use as well as checking n level of integration services in the main stream interventions and

 Activity7: Conduct community PrEP deliveries at PrEP spots and drop in centers to support stigmatized clients, will be rolled out after festive period.