The project has to begin somewhere before it can become a truly worldwide programme. It has to have been tried and tested data to prove its validity to Rotary International.

Uganda has been chosen because:

• Uganda was the first African country to acknowledge that HIV is an epidemic and with up to 30% of children with HIV in many areas.
• It is driving down the prevalence of HIV by the Government's own efforts and by the efforts of NGOs (non-government organisations).
• The initial research into prevention of transmission of HIV was done in Uganda.
• This is where one of our founding team members, Dr Kibirige, a leading NHS paediatrician in the UK, has worked for over twenty years with children in Uganda in his own time; he has a great depth of knowledge of Ugandan conditions and is himself well known in the country.
• It provides the template for developing countries in battling for children newly born with HIV.
• It is where a tried and tested regime for working in outreach is already in place.