Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP)
Promise Tumwebaze is an experienced healthcare professional currently serving as the District Program Specialist for USAID/LPHS-EC and Clinical Team Lead at Kiruddu NRH within the Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP), a position held since April 2022. Prior experience includes serving as a Medical Officer at Mulago Hospital from February 2021 to February 2022 and completing two Pre Doctoral Internships at MJAP from July 2020 to April 2021. Promise is pursuing a Master's degree in Public Health at Makerere University, and has also completed a course on Principles of STI/HIV Research and Public Health Practice at the University of Washington. Additionally, Promise holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Project Planning and Management from Uganda Management Institute and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from Makerere University, completed in 2021.
Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP)
Makerere University Joints AIDS Program is a company limited by guarantee under Makerere University working towards consolidation of the model for the provision of the full continuum of HIV/AIDS and TB prevention, care and treatment services whilst contributing to national health systems strengthening for delivery of quality services. MJAP emerged from the Mulago-Mbarara Teaching Hospitals JointAIDS Program which was established in November 2004 under the then Makerere University Faculty of Medicine with funding from the US President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and technical assistance from the United States of America Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the provision of comprehensive HIV/AIDS services.In 2010, MJAP was competitively awarded a five year grant from the American government through CDC to scale up comprehensive HIV/AIDS services in the Mulago and Mbarara National Referral and Teaching Hospitals as well as Butabika hospital. Since 2004, we have grown to be a leader in the provision and scaling up of HCT, Basic HIV/AIDS care, TB/HIV integrated services, ART including Post exposure prophylaxis and support for victims of sexual and Gender-based violence in the two largest national teaching hospitals and several satellite clinics. We have achieved this through collaboration with Ministry of Health (MoH), the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Program (NTLP), and indirectly through the host institutions that leverage resources from the Global Fund (GFTAM). Currently, we are working with a variety of other collaborators and partners hosted by MoH such as Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC), The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) Baylor College of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Protecting Families Against HIV/AIDS (PREFA), and health units such as Regional Referral Hospitals (RRHs), Mulago TB Unit, Mbarara Municipal Council, Kampala City Council (KCC) health centers and many others.