The level of HIV among long distance truck drivers is high, chiefly because their lifestyle provides many opportunities for risky sexual behaviour, and because they have limited access to HIV prevention, testing and counselling, and healthcare. This document is an abridged edition of the KMCC synthesis report titled “Long distance truck drivers and HIV/AIDS in Uganda: Synthesis of information and evidence to inform the response”. 

The review of the evidence shows that there is an urgent need to upscale targeted HIV-prevention efforts to long distance truck drivers. The document makes a number of recommendations for a coordinated effort to tackle the vulnerability of long distance truck drivers to HIV/AIDS.

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