Kayunga District has been recently ranked by Uganda Ministry of Health, to be with the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Uganda to the extent that even the World Aids Day of 01st December 2019 was celebrated in Kayunga District of Uganda.

Kayunga like other Districts in Uganda, has seen an emerging HIV/AIDS epidemic among adolescent and young adults and this has been as a result of high teenage pregnancy currently at 24%, high presence of most-at-risk populations including the youthful fisher-folks, in migrating populations from the former war-ravaged northern Uganda, the land/mudslides disaster-stricken Buduuda District migrants, Sugar cane and rice-growing target youth workers from Jinja and Kamuli Districts and other odd jobs migrant youth workers!

Uganda has made tremendous progress in combating the HIV and AIDS epidemic with a decline in the prevalence from 18% in the early 1980s to 7.3% in 2011; and further decline to 6.0% according to the last AIDS Indicator Survey by the Ministry of Health. This is the second progress report showing advancement in the implementation of the National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan (NSP 2015/16 – 2019/20). During the period under review, there was a change in policy in HIV testing and enrolment into care;

Uganda adopted the WHO guidelines on testing and treating where all individuals testing HIV positive are started on ART irrespective of their CD4 status clinical stage and age. A number of policy reviews were undertaken and improvement in the implementation guidelines in the HIV response are highlighted in the achievement sections of that report.

The HIV epidemic has remained a major handicap in the development priorities of the country, given its effects on the different sectors. Uganda has made major progress in fighting HIV with positive results in the area of elimination of Mother to Child Transmission (eMTCT). Uganda like many countries in Sub Saharan Africa has seen an emerging epidemic among adolescents and young adults. This brings about a major setback in the achievements made and calls for refocusing in the priority areas.

BUVAD as key local/indigenous HIV/AIDS fighting agency in Kayunga District comes in to take a stern step to heighten its efforts in championing prevention of new HIV/AIDS project amongst youths, the future generation of Kayunga District and Uganda as a whole or else the District is in trouble!

BUVAD employs an integrated approach, which provides; HIV/AIDS prevention and reproductive health training workshops alongside the bottle brick technology training work camps, sensitizing participants about HIV/AIDs prevention, sexual reproductive health alongside training them in constructing of rainwater harvesting tanks and toilets using waste plastic bottles collected by themselves as bricks.

BUVAD creates and supports women cooperatives, focused on increased knowledge sharing on HIV/AIDs prevention, hygiene, access and use of reproductive health services, construction of cheap household rainwater harvesting tanks and toilets in their households.

The training approach involves theoretical sessions of sensitization to women village chain HIV/AIDs prevention, reproductive health and bottle bricks technology construction cooperatives, discussions about HIV/AIDs prevention, reproductive health services in general and practical sessions of constructing small manageable model bottle-brick rainwater harvesting tanks & toilets, for a demonstration.