About Us
Loyal Foundation was founded in 2008 as a 501 (c) non-profit Community Based Organization registered with the Ministry of health and Government of Uganda. Today we serve a population of over 500,000 people in Wakiso District and different Islands in lake Victoria like Kalangala. and Kamuli District.
Our Island Outreach mission sites .
Our mission is to restore hope to our suffering communites through our different Voluntary Services.
Country Background Information
Uganda lies in Africa 's Sub-Saharan region. It is a landlocked country situated in the eastern part of Africa, bordering with Kenya to the East, Tanzania and Rwanda to the South, the Democratic Republic of Congo to the West and Sudan to the North. According to the 2011 report of the state of the country's population by the Population Secretariat, the country had an average annual population growth rate 3.2% with a population size of 32.9 million people in 2011.
The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic Estimates
The first AIDS case was diagnosed in 1981 in the United States of America and the disease has since spread to epidemic proportions around the world. According to the 2010 UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, 33.3 million people were living with HIV, 2.6 million were newly infected and 1.8 million died from AIDS related illness.
HIV/AIDS Epidemiological Trends in Uganda
Uganda was among the first hard hit countries. The first HIV/AIDS case was identified in the country along the shores of Lake Victoria in 1982. Superstitions and witchcraft characterized the initial response from communities amidst lack of clear government response to HIV/AIDS. Consequently, the epidemic progressed very fast to all parts of the country initially concentrating in urban and semi-urban centres. The HIV prevalence is 6.4% among adults 15-49 years and 0.7% among children. In Uganda approximately 1.2 million people were HIV infected (57% female and 13% children less than 15 years), 124,000 were newly infected and 64,000 people died due to AIDS related illnesses in 2009.
Impact of HIV/AIDS
In Uganda HIV/AIDS has affected both rural and urban dwellers, adults and children and the impacts cut across regions and occupational groups in the country with varying magnitude. HIV/AIDS, especially in resource-constrained settings, results in physical and psychological suffering of the infected and eventually the affected