According to Prof Joseph Matovu, the lead researcher from Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences they tested the approach using fishermen in Buvuma and Kalangala islands considering the fact that the government struggles to have them consistently tested despite being one of the key populations in which HIV prevalence is higher than the national average.
The 25 million Euros project (approximately 100 billion Shillings) was being implemented in the 14 districts of the West Nile and Acholi Sub-region benefiting both the host and South Sudan refugee population.
Dr. Madina Guloba, a Senior Research Fellow at the center, says that they surveyed over seventeen thousand households in twelve sugarcane growing districts in Buganda, Bunyoro, and Busoga regions where they found only one in every four households to be food secure.
