Alicia Keys and 'Keep a Child Alive' to Visit AHF's Masaka Healthcare Center, Free AIDS Clinic Run by AIDS Healthcare Foundation/Uganda CARES

Alicia Keys and 'Keep a Child Alive' to Visit AHF's Masaka Healthcare Center, Free AIDS Clinic Run by AIDS Healthcare Foundation/Uganda CARES

KAMPALA, Uganda, April 10/PRNewswire/ --

- American Singer and Keep a Child Alive Officials to Visit Children and
Families Treated at Free Masaka AIDS Treatment Clinic on Monday April
10th - Noon to 3:00 pm

Keep a Child Alive (KCA) and KCA ambassador, Alicia Keys, will be in
Masaka, Uganda today (approx. 120km southeast of Kampala) to visit Keep a
Child Alive-sponsored sites including AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Masaka
Healthcare Center, which provides free medical care and anti-retroviral
treatment to children and their families living with HIV/AIDS. The US-based
Keep a Child Alive is an urgent response to the AIDS pandemic that is
ravaging Africa. KCA provides crucial support and funding to clinics that
provide lifesaving anti-retroviral treatment and services to keep children
alive.

In Uganda, one of the sites that KCA funds is AHF's Masaka Healthcare
Center, which cares for many thousands of Ugandans, nearly 4,000 of whom
receive lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy through the facility. The clinic
is operated by Uganda CARES/AIDS Healthcare Foundation in partnership with
the Ugandan Ministry of Health, and was endorsed by President Yoweri
Museveni. AHF treats more than 13,000 people in Uganda, 80% of whom are
women, many with children and families.

The goal of this collaboration between Keep a Child Alive and AHF in
Uganda is to provide care and treatment to children and families living with
HIV/AIDS.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) the largest US AIDS organization,
operates free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Asia, and in Latin
America/Caribbean.

Web site: http://www.wbs-tv.com

Source: AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Uganda, Mr. Kenneth Kazooba, General Manager of WBS-TV, Mobile, +256-752-489-278, kenka@wbs-tv.com; or Terri Ford, Director of International, Advocacy of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Uganda mobile, +256-782-264-440, or global mobile, +1-213-399-1001, terrif@aidshealth.org; or United States, Ged Kenslea, Communications Director of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, +1-323-860-5225, or mobile, +1-323-791.5526, gedk@aidshealth.org

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