The fight against the spread and effects of HIV- AIDS has recently been given high
priority in Africa. However, an obstacle to the successful effort in fighting the pandemic
remains the lack of an integrated and coordinated information sharing infrastructure
to which all stakeholders have access. In Uganda, sharing of information on AIDS is
further constrained by the diversity of information storage, processing, retrieval and
dissemination interfaces adopted by the different healthcare providers.
Integration of the Information systems of the various health care providers in the HIVAIDS
pandemic has not been attained as yet. This study describes a web based model
for integration of the information systems of different organizat ions charged
with the care of HIV-AIDS patients and information dissemination within the
healthcare system. The results of the study demonstrate that integrated access to
information about HIV-AIDS in Uganda is both possible and attainable. The
approach used in this study is inexpensive given that it employed open source
software.