Country watch: Uganda
AIDS health promotion exchange 1991(1): 12-13
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 1013-7785 PMID: 12284504 Document Number: 316204
The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) provides non-medically based care for people with AIDS, those infected with HIV, and their families. Located in Kampala and Masaka, TASO offers a supportive environment designed to boost the quality of life for those living with AIDS. Specifically, clients may discuss their situations with and obtain information from part-time counselors, and meet other clients and client families at the clinic for lunch and/or conversation. Meetings with counselors may take place at either the clinic or in-home depending upon clients' wishes. These counselors also help to find foster parents for clients' children left behind following the death of both parents. Potential foster parents are 1st identified from among a respective client's friends and relatives and educated about HIV/AIDS transmission, with the chosen parents eventually given food, clothing, and financial support for the children's formal education. The clinic also provides free medication, when available, and material assistance in the form of eggs and milk powder. These services are presently offered to over 2000 people with HIV or AIDS and their families.