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Introduction: The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is the U.S. government’s global effort to combat HIV. It is the largest global health program in the world devoted to a single disease. Others like it include the Jimmy Carter Foundation’s action against Guinea Worm. First proposed by President George W. Bush in 2003, PEPFAR funds are used for U.S. bilateral HIV response, as well as participation in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) and bilateral assistance for tuberculosis (TB) and malaria programs. PEPFAR’s current authorizing legislation goes through FY 2023, which ends on September 30, 2023. As Congress and policymakers consider a fourth reauthorization of PEPFAR, there is fear that PEPFAR may be no more. The objective of this research was to gather voices that can be used to convince Congress to reauthorize PEPFAR. Method: We used Interviews, story-telling and conducting conversations on the extent PEPFAR has influenced ...

  The Public Health Steering Team-Uganda (PHSTU) is about centering Public health principles at the core of the missions of the organizations we work with. PHSTU is about agency, autonomy, productivity and self-determination by individuals, households and communities in Africa. Through targeted interventions PHSTU catalyzes transformation and through systems and structures it embeds a self-evaluative culture that sustains best-practices. Through the work we do, we showcase the potential of Public Health principles and essentials in driving growth whose lessons can be shared throughout Africa, leveraging individual engagement in demanding for services, motivating governments and private entities (Public-Private Mix) to invest in services that foster innovation and entrepreneurship. These services in turn pivot households and communities as accessible and appropriate economic powerhouses and social-cultural transformative platforms. We employ adaptive Public Health Frameworks...

Tom Mukasa Social Justice, Community Organizer and Public/Global Health Specialist USA Address: 870 Hilgard Avenue #221 Los Angeles, CA 90024 MOD Public Health Foundation, Public Health Steering Team Uganda (PHSTU) Plot 79, Bukoba Road, Near Gaz + 1 (925)388-3193 (WhatsApp); +256770489667 (UG) advocacynetworkafrica@gmail.com Tom Mukasa is a Public Health Strategist with over 35 years of imparting health promotion and education at conscious, subconscious, social, national and international levels. A practitioner and a healthy living skills promoter champion, a facilitator of process-driven events, skilled in advising and one capable of leveraging individuals or communities to examine the consequences of decisions as well as aspire to a fuller picture of life's outcomes. Tom develops efficacious models distilling the "public" in Public Health thereby locating it in people-centred outcomes linking the "health" aspirations in Public Health to good hea...

                      Eligibility and Support Case Work Tool #1 Public Health Steering team-Uganda (PHSTU) S/N   ITEM/PARTICULAR/ESSENTIAL COMPONENT   YES   NO   1 RECEIVE THEM WITH COURTESY     2 ASK THEM WHO THEY ARE AND WHERE THEY ARE FROM (VILLAGE, PARISH, SUB-COUNTY, TOWN COUNCIL, DIVISION, COUNTY, DISTRICT)     3 ASK THEM ABOUT THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS (MAKE SURE THEY SHARE THE LINK AND YOU PROCED TO OPEN AND ASCERTAIN THE ACCOUNT AND PAGE)     4 ASK THEM THEIR ORGANISATION DOCUMENTS FOR EXAMPLE CONSTITUTION     5 ASK THEM ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THEIR ORGANISATION OR AN ‘’ORIGIN STORY’’     ...