FROM 1 CLIENT TO OVER 2000 CLIENTS A DAY: THE REAL HUMBLE BEGINNINGS OF AIC

AIDS Information Centre (AIC) offers HIV testing, counselling, and AIDS support services to people living in Uganda. Established on February 14th Valentine’s Day 1990, has become internationally recognized as being the first organization of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa.

The need for HIV testing and counselling services in Uganda was articulated long before the AIC was actually established. In 1988, at a meeting of the Patient Care Sub-committee of the National Committee for the Prevention of AIDS, representatives from Red Cross/Uganda, Nsambya Hospital in Kampala and the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) discussed how knowing one’s HIV status can lead to behavior changes towards safer sexual practices. They decided to establish an H1V testing center in Uganda.