| Abbreviation | AIC |
|---|---|
| Formation | 14 February 1990 |
| Type | Non-Profit Organization |
| Headquarters | Kampala, Uganda |
| Location |
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Region served | National with 8 Regional Service cent. |
Staff | 140 |
| Website | http://www.aicug.org |
AIDS Information Centre-Uganda (AIC) is a Non-Governmental Organization in Uganda established in 1990[1] to provide Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) for Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV). The Organization was founded as a result of growing demand from people who wanted to know their HIV status. At this time the HIV/AIDS in Uganda was high.
AIC currently offers HIV counselling and testing services[2] through 8 branches of Kampala, Jinja, Mbale, Mbarara, Arua, Lira, Soroti and Kabale, selected hospitals, health centres, and antenatal clinics. AIC also conducts HCT outreaches to communities and institutions targeting the Most-at risk populations. AIC supported the Uganda Ministry of Health to extend HCT services nearer to the communities by supporting HCT in 33 districts in Uganda with over 200 district health facilities benefiting.
By December 2010 AIC had served over 2,959,193 clients. The number keeps growing and for the last 3 years over 300,000 clients annually are being served using the different approaches for HCT.
To consolidate its HIV counselling and Testing services in the country, AIC has adopted a new vision as ‘Universal knowledge of HIV status in Uganda’ and its mission as ‘to provide HIV and AIDS information and quality HCT services’ and this will be through to 2015.