Hope For Life App

Hope For Life App acts as a link for the marginalized youths to friendly Health services and information.

The Hope 4 Life App that enables marginalized youth access and be linked to friendly Health Care services like communication with service providers especially those living with HIV.

It allows to conveniently organize medication timetable and to set private and personalized reminders.

This app will also map the services providers in Uganda or in a particular available in the area. It will then be possible for people to identify service centers (particularly in terms of sexual and reproductive health, Minority-friendly centers...) closest to them through the geo location function.

In 2018, an estimated 1.4 million people were living with HIV, and an estimated 23,000 Ugandans died of AIDS-related illnesses.The epidemic is firmly established in the general population. As of 2018, the estimated HIV prevalence among adults (aged 15 to 49) stood at 5.7%. Women are disproportionately affected, with 8.8% of adult women living with HIV compared to 4.3% of men, whereas globally over 38 million people are living with HIV.
Other groups particularly affected by HIV in Uganda are sex workers, young girls and adolescent women, men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs and people from Uganda’s transient fishing communities.
There has been a gradual increase in the number of people living with HIV accessing treatment.
In 2013, Uganda reached a tipping point whereby the number of new infections per year was less than the number of people beginning to receive antiretroviral treatment.
However, as of 2018 around 27% of adults living with HIV and 33% of children living with HIV were still not on treatment. Persistent disparities remain around who is accessing treatment and many people living with HIV experience stigma and discrimination.

The Hope 4 Life App that enables marginalized youth access and be linked to friendly Health Care services like communication with service providers especially those living with HIV.

It allows to conveniently organize medication timetable and to set private and personalized reminders.

This app will also map the services providers in Uganda or in a particular available in the area. It will then be possible for people to identify service centers (particularly in terms of sexual and reproductive health, Minority-friendly centers...) closest to them through the geo location function.

The key component of an android mobile app devise for both tasks and to connect of quality health care seekers to the quality health care’s providers with & between providers to provide access, geo location information, services, referral, linkages mapping, data & follow up, to digitalize all the
organizations, care, treatment.

We are already partnering with different Health service providers providing Health services in all regions of Uganda, we have been able to do a partial country mapping of 34 service providers especially those working with our target marginalized persons such as LGBTIQ , Sex workers and those
living with HIV since many of them find it hard to locate and know the friendly service providers because of who they are.

We have developed the application that we are already  piloting with beneficiaries, trained 40 peer educators from one region more regions need to be covered .
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Lastly the mobile app user’s satisfaction questionnaire has been distributed online so as to keep on the check of user and improve delivery, also we will use the Google play store metrics which show the overall users of the app and the current active users an avenue that will enable use identify real users and impact of the mobile application.

The Hope 4 Life App that enables marginalized youth access and be linked to friendly Health Care services like communication with service providers especially those living with HIV, many of the marginalized persons find it difficult to receive the required medical treatment from any clinic, hence there as a need to map the friendly services providers put them in one place through a mobile app to ease access and link up, especially those ho are living with HIV but also enhance adherence through:-

This app will also map the services providers in Uganda or in a particular available in the area. It will then be possible for the marginalized persons to identify service centers (particularly in terms of sexual and reproductive health, Minority-friendly centers...) closest to them through the geo location function.

We are already testing the mobile app with both LGBTIQ and Sexworkers since they are most at risk of HIV, in the central region districts although with other users from different regions of Uganda.

From the piloting we are already getting positive feedback, this can also be reflected from the mobile app google play store ratings and positive reviews.

The Hope for Life mobile app is the first mobile application in East and Central Africa that enables linkage to friendly service providers in Uganda, it also enables drug adherence through the reminders to take drugs, eases communication with physicians hence enabling Patients with HIV get in touch with their doctors in time, hence cubing on depression since many can access online counseling through the toll free lines. Our e-health system enables the patient to collaborate with the physician other than ordering by the physician as the old means, its brings in a sense of partnership than following different hierarchy as the old methods, with the app its cost effective as it’s done online while the old methods of going to make appointments are costly, both the patient and the medical institution do share the patients data, this helps patients to track their own data for future health referrals than only the institution to own ones data.

We are currently serving 1000 beneficiaries, with support in a year we will reach 250,000 beneficiaries and in the five years of scale within East Africa we target to reach 3 million beneficiaries.

85% mobile app user retention.

55% of the Sexual minorities friendly service providers mapped.

15% of the Minorities friendly services providers trained.

45% of the peers trained from one region, while others are yet to be covered with support and resources.

Mobile app upgrade at 58%

8 Full time workers, 3 part time and 12 pool of volunteers in different capacities.

We have a very experienced team, with our Information Technology manager and part time Software engineers, we also have a collaboration with Next Generation Technology company and  Autosoft Application company.

KPU Team Leader/ Director Ivan Fredrick Kasonko is a social scientist trainer and facilitator with vast experience in advocacy work for LGBTIQ persons both at National and Global level, has is the Now Us Award Nominee and semi Finalist, has worked with both UNFPA and Restless Development on a Youth Led accountability project, both during the Youth consultations in Johannesburg and during the launch of the Youth Led Accountability Report
during the Africa Agenda International Conference where KPU team leader played a pivotal role on launching and co hosting a youth led accountability session during the conference.

Asingwire Richard is Programs Manager, teacher and part time Lecturer ,hold a master degree in Education, with vast experience in advocacy, Research, facilitation and mentoring of youth to be able to stand up for themselves more especially the Sexual Minorities. The programs manager coordinates the project implementation, producing project narrative and quarterly report.

Abdul Seruwada is a social workers with a Bachelors in science and Population Studies, and works as the Monitoring and Evaluations Manager, with his vast experience in data collection. and management, on addition to pursuing a Post Graduate course in Monitoring and Evaluations Currently, he is in charge of compiling all field data collected and analysis on additional to formulating final M/E field reports.

Our Organization consist of a diverse team, with the LGBTIQ youth professional at the lead,although with many diverse individual from both those living with HIV, Queer women,Sex workers and persons who inject drugs and other diverse youth.

With our diversity and inclusion charter in place ensuring a leveled ground for our entire team at the Organization.

Solve can help Key Populations Uganda effort to upgrade and scale up the Hope For Life mobile app that is ensuring that the marginalized are linked to service provider but also solve can connect us to relevant stakeholders (funding partners, technology development partners, policymakers, permitting agencies, mentoring among others.

Both mentoring exposure and financial support will be vital to scale our work and contribute to the 2030 Agenda.

MIT faculties in IT digital health, but also very open to prospective partners.

We are a health based mobile application thats enabling access to services providers nearer to the users.

Our Innovation is inclusive especially for the marginalized persons, Refugees falling in the same categories since our mobile app enable access to Health facilities data this is very important in the Refugees day today lives, with Uganda currently having over 1 million Refugees from South Sudan, Congo Randa and Somalia, Uganda has been ranked as the largest Refugees host country in the East and Central Africa.

Our mobile application takes on a cross section of diverse individuals such as young vulnerable women, Sex workers, LBQ women among others.

Our mobile application ensures that data is mapped and accessed by our users that through the mapped friendly services providers to the marginalized persons hence enabling data access.

Part of our efforts to ensuring that the Health services providers working with marginalized persons capacity is built and strengthened, this will be done through our country wide training of Health services providers on the mobile app basics, this will enable quick linking of patients with clinics hence enabling a quick simple and tech supported referral system.

The activity of training Health service providers and mapping of different Health facilities to come up with such Health providers data, this is reflected in our activities and very essential to our project.