Mulago National Referral Hospital speaks out about the over looming staffing and limited funds in the treatment of HIV/AIDs patients after the United States Government’s decision giving aid funds to Uganda was cut.

Dr. Rosemary Byanyima, Executive Director of Mulago Hospital, said that this is the main issue as she appeared before the Parliament’s Health Committee to present the hospital’s 2025/26 Ministerial Policy Statement.

She said that there some hospitals which are working at 67% of its needed staffing levels which also faces more additional strain as many HIV/AIDs patients were previously aided under donor-funded projects must now be incorporated into Mulago’s system.

“We see challenges in that because we have challenges in staffing, and these clinics are really heavy. Each of the organizations I have talked about sees not less than an average of 50 to 100 patients per day, each one of them,” she said.

Byanyima added, “If all those have to come to us, then we really need staffing, we need space where to run that clinic, laboratory services, managing of the records. They had already established an electronic system which was capturing and even following up with these patients to make sure that they adhere to the treatment.”

She revealed that following the stop-work order by U.S. President Donald Trump, Mulago Hospital has integrated HIV care into the infectious disease clinic within the medical patient department while continuing to offer inpatient services as before.

However, she highlighted a major challenge in logistics management for antiretroviral therapy.

“We also have a challenge of how we manage the logistics of antiretroviral therapy, but our medicines and therapeutics committee is gathering all this information from the partners who have been offering that, and we are in touch with the Ministry of Health for guidance,” Dr. Byanyima added.