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1. Provide safe space for interaction and learning 2. Bringing visibility for MARPs in Uganda 3. Mobilizing MARPs to access health services 4. Establish a well-MARPs center of excellence.

Activities by end of 2012

1. Finish major report, analysing all past records to gauge impact. 2. Liaise with all Ludo Groups/Garages/Furniture Marts in Kampala/Wakiso Districts. 3. Partnership moves with all CSOs in catchment area where our resource is found 4. Mobilise and work with Ludo/Snooker/Repair garages/Food vending stalls/ Film kiosks to gauge understanding of HIV and plans for community talks around Violence, abuse, discrimination and Stigma. 5. Fund raise and resource mobilisation. 6. Partner with INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS FOR MICROBICIDES as a means of providing prevention, care and treatment services for Women and Men in Uganda. 7. Seek out and attach people living with HIV to prophylaxis and ART care systems. 8. Generate and design concepts for development into proposals as a link to Government of Uganda anti-Poverty Drives for all communities. 9. Identify and train 900 participants with skills to improve on their communities, address violence, abuse, discrimination, stigma and development issues. 10. Position MARPS IN UGANDA as an anti-poverty, anti-HIV and anti-Corruption Organisation in Uganda. 11. Engage in WORLD AIDS DAY activities: Launch interventions, conduct community sensitisation drives and engage communities in competitive Ludo Sports under the "Talk-HIV-while-at-Play" (THWAP) Programme that encourages men/young males to attend our self help sessions in bigger numbers. 12. Attend and participate in the Uganda Country Coordinating Mechanism Election meeting. Uganda National AIDS Services Organisation (UNASO) and Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU) are the substantive/Alternate CCM for Local NGOs in Uganda where MARPS IN UGANDA is member. 13. Design plans to link with AIDS Information Center (AIC) and RHU as part of the 5 referral points for MSM/ MARPs health issues. 14. Design training modules to train other organisations. 15. Establish means to work with other organisations outside Uganda.

At MARPS IN UGANDA there is:

1. Chief Executive Officer 2. Associate Executive Officer ( Quality assurance) 3. Space Manager 4. Women's Desk officers 5. Men's Desk 6. MARPs 'Desk 7. 10 Regional Coordinators' desks 8. NGOs/CSOs/FBOs' Desk 9. Young MSM Desk 10.Microbicides information point 11.Young Persons' Desk 12. Research and documentation 13. Community outreaches 14. Resource Center activities 15. Partnerships, resource mobilisation, sharing

COMPLIANCE PARADIGM SHIFT

1. Planning Around UNAIDS STRATEGY 2011-2015 2.Planning around Protection 3.Planning around measurement of new and existing action in the areas of eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV, providing paediatric treatment, preventing infection among adolescents and young people, and protecting and supporting children affectd by HIV-AIDS-the four Ps. 4.Involving over 11,000 men only clubs (Ludo, Snooker, repair garages,film kiosks, touts and furniture kiosks in educative sessions and talks around violence, abuse, discrimination, stigma, HIV, Human Rights and self sustenance. 5. Post conflict processes and mechanisms 6.HIV among MSM and use of microbicides as a prevention practice. 7.HIV among Transgender 8.Universal access for MSM 9.Universal access for TG 10.Sexual orientation, Violence and AIDS in Africa 11. Seek out PLHIV and attach them to prophylaxis and ART care facilities. 12. Establish conversation spaces on family planning methods. 13. Promote integrated services for HIV/TB/Malaria. 14. Promote comprehensive HIV Initiatives. 15.Engage in research, documentation, record keeping and share information as a means of knowledge building and management.

1. Increased number of MARPs accessing services 2. Increased number of organisations that address needs of MARPs and acting as referral service points. 3. Bringing to the notice of MARPs the dangers of malaria. 4. Encourage engagement in business, technical skills building or activities to increase incomes. 5. Capacity building 6. Comprehensive HIV. 7. Treatment beyond HIV/TB/Malaria 8. Record setting initiatives 9. Establish a MARPs-wellness center of excellence. 10. Lead in eradication of HIV advocacy.