The Minister for the Presidency, Milly Babirye Babalanda, has asked Parliament for Shs150bn to fund HIV/AIDS work across the country.
Babalanda, who is also the MP for Budiope West, made the request while presenting a progress report on the HIV/Aids response to a plenary sitting chaired by Jacob Oboth.
The money would go to the Uganda Aids Commission (UAC), the government body that coordinates the national response.
“Honourable members, the Uganda Aids Commission seeks Shs150bn to register zero deaths related to HIV/Aids as well as zero tolerance to stigma,” she said.
Babalanda told MPs that Uganda had made real progress. Annual Aids deaths fell by 65% from 56,000 in 2010 to 19,000 in 2025.
HIV prevalence now stands at 5.9%, down from 18%. It is higher among women, at 7.3%, than among men, at 4.1%.
She said 85.3% of people living with HIV aged 15 and above now know their status. New infections passed from mothers to children fell from 20,000 in 2010 to 4,400 in 2025.
But she warned that much remained to be done, and that the money was needed to curb complacency and bring down new infections, which she said were still unacceptably high.
Babalanda told MPs that sexual and gender-based violence, stigma and discrimination persisted in schools. She said the response also made too little use of modern technology and of platforms such as social media to spread awareness.
She noted that the national HIV response did not have enough money for prevention services.
She urged parliament to give the commission more funding and to help spread HIV messages in their constituencies.
