Leading world HIV/AIDS have asked Uganda to implement its national HIV prevention and strategic plans if the country is to reverse the spiraling infections of HIV.

The right on the heels of the 2011 AIDS Indicator Survey in Uganda shows that the HIV prevalence has gone up to 7.3% from 6.4% in 2006.  The Director of the Regional Centre for Quality of Healthcare at Makerere University, Prof. Fred Wabwire- Mangen, says that the recent surveys on HIV spread show some changes in behaviour change and that the new HIV infections are worrying and calls for new thinking in research world.

Agreeing that Uganda is moving in the right direction on the fight against HIV, Dr Alex Coutinho, the executive director of the Infectious Diseases Institute at Makerere University, argued that the speed was still too slow to confront a “national tragedy.”

Dr. Coutinho observes that the health system in Uganda is functioning with leakages and if biomedical HIV prevention tools like medical male circumcision are to make an impact in Uganda, they needed a fully functional health system.