The civil society groups have reported that Uganda is off track in the fight against AIDS despite the funding from development partners.

Speaking a head of the Country’s joint Annual AIDS review that started this morning, Health activists noted that over the past five years the HIV prevalence rates in Uganda have risen from 6.4 % to 7 % yet Uganda had earlier registered a global HIV success story.

Alice Kayongo an activist from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance says the civil society groups are demanding government to consider scaling-up treatment of HIV/AIDS as a major prevention tool.

Kayongo says that whereas HIV treatment saves lives and one of the most powerful prevention tools, there is low treatment coverage with only 57% of people eligible of treatment have access to it.

Kayongo also stresses the need for embracing all HIV/AIDS prevention approaches especially the scientifically proven interventions in addition to the behavioral change approaches.