Uganda

Differentiated Service Delivery in Uganda

Facility-Level
Coverage

%

Percent of health facilities providing less-intensive DART models.

From the National data, 1648 of 1939 (85%) facilities have enrolled at least 10% of eligible recipients of care into less-intensive models.Source: 2022 CQUIN DART CMM self-staging results

% In Less-Intensive
Differentiated Treatment Models

%

Percent of people on ART who are enrolled in less-intensive DART models.

Source: April-June 2022, DHIS-2 data report

Multi-month ART Dispensing

20

Percent of people on ART receiving ≥ 6 months of ART at a time. 

No MMD data for now, but it will be available from 2023

DART Model
Diversity

Number of groups for whom less-intensive DART models have been designed and implemented.

Children, adolescents and young people, pregnant and breast-feeding women, men, people with AHD, female sex workers, men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, transgender people, incarcerated/detained people, and migrant/mobile populations. Source: 2022 CQUIN DART CMM self-staging results

Differentiated Service Delivery Implementation in Uganda

Uganda joined the CQUIN learning network in 2017. Uganda’s National Guidelines for HIV Care and Treatment outline the need for diverse differentiated service delivery (DSD) models including facility- and community-based models that could be used to better reach recipients of care, and the need for robust quality and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) standards.

Recipients of care are highly engaged in Uganda’s DSD implementation and strategic decision-making processes, playing roles in the national DSD Technical Working Group, teams providing supportive supervision, and as ART group leaders.

Currently, Uganda offers four less-intensive models, including:

  • One facility-based individual model: fast-track drug refills.
  • One facility-based group model: facility-based groups.
  • One community-based individual model: community drug-distribution points.
  • One community-based group model: community client-led ART delivery.

As Uganda’s DSD program continues to mature, focus has increasingly shifted to strengthening national quality and M&E standards. In 2018, a team from Uganda visited Eswatini on a CQUIN-supported south-to-south learning exchange to learn about Mbabane Government Hospital’s client management information system, among other priorities. The knowledge obtained from this visit, alongside Uganda’s participation in the M&E virtual community of practice, has led to improvements in Uganda’s national M&E system, including revisions to the health management information system, and the development of new tools and resources. Uganda has also hosted several south-to-south visits, sharing its best practices in community-based DSD and the flow of data from community to facility levels with multiple CQUIN partner countries.

Uganda’s DSD program is also focused on quality improvement to increase the proportion of recipients of care in less-intensive models and increase the diversity of models offered. A study being conducted at Makerere University School of Public Health is investigating the DSD implementation process, including perceptions of providers and recipients of care, treatment outcomes, and challenges.

Resources

Taking Differentiated Service Delivery to Scale in Uganda

Uganda National Guidelines for HIV Care and Treatment

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