USAID/East Africa
Throughout East Africa, data indicate HIV prevalence has stabilized and is declining in select areas. All of the countries in the region, with the exception of Madagascar, are experiencing generalized epidemics, with adult prevalence rates exceeding 1 percent of the population. In Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, adult HIV prevalence exceeds 5 percent, according to the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and adult prevalence varies greatly across demographic groups throughout the region. Heterosexual contact is the primary mode of HIV transmission. Multiple and concurrent partnerships are a major challenge in combating HIV/AIDS, as individuals (particularly women) who would normally be considered low risk are put at risk when their partners engage in sexual unions outside of their relationships.
In the East Africa region, USAID support of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief spans across the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. The East Africa regional program also provides basic HIV/AIDS support to Burundi and Djibouti and has developed a transport corridor program to provide services to underserved, high-risk mobile populations in transport towns and border crossings across the region. USAID programs are tailored to individual countries and include behavior change communication, condom social marketing, voluntary counseling and testing, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV services, orphans and vulnerable children services, community outreach, local capacity building, tuberculosis-HIV services, and health systems strengthening projects, among others.
View the full USAID HIV/AIDS Health Profile for East Africa – December 2010 [PDF, 153KB].
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