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2 Clinician job at Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP) | Apply Now
Are you looking for Medical jobs in Uganda 2025 today? then you might be interested in 2 Clinician job at Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP)
About the Organisation
Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP) emerged from the Mulago-Mbarara Teaching Hospitals Joint AIDS Program (MJAP) which was established in November 2004 under the then Makerere University Faculty of Medicine. With funding from the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and technical assistance from the United States of America Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), MJAP established a strong trail in the provision of quality comprehensive HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis (TB) services.
Overtime, MJAP has broadened its work beyond the support of provision of comprehensive HIV and TB services to include capacity strengthening for health care workers across Uganda and conduct of research to inform policies for HIV/TB and other HIV comorbidities in the country.
Currently, the flourishing institution plays a pivotal role in the Uganda health care system having developed strong links with the Ministry of Health through its contribution to various technical working groups and long term support of HIV/TB services in districts, regional referral hospitals and public health facilities across the various regions in the country.
Namayingo, Uganda
Full Time
Job Title
2 Clinician job at Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP)
Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP)
Job Description
Job Title: Clinician – 2 Positions
Organisation: Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP)
Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda
Other locations: Namayingo
Job Summary:
The Clinicians will work with and support respective health facility teams to enrol all newly identified HIV positive clients in care and on ART, and to provide high quality HIV and TB care and treatment services along the care continuum as per the national guidelines for HIV prevention, care and treatment through ongoing patient clinical assessments and management, data reviews and reporting, and applying quality improvement approaches to close existing service quality gaps.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
Participate in day-to-day running of the HIV/AIDS and integrated HIV/TB clinics at supported health facilities including daily enrollment of newly identified HIV positive clients.
Work with other health facility staff and projected volunteers to strengthen targeted HIV eligibility screening at all facility entry points and testing all those eligible for the HIV test.
Daily review of all HTS services data tools both at facility and from outreaches to track all new HIV positive clients in collaboration with community linkages structures and ensure their enrolment into care and on ART to completion.
Work with the facility, district and project M&E teams to ensure up-to-date data collection and reporting mechanisms are responsive to the needs of the district, project, MoH and other stakeholders.
Ensure that the project’s facilities and district’s HIV/AIDS support for activities is well coordinated and demonstrate results towards set targets.
In collaboration with supported facility, district and cluster staff monitor and support attainment of HIV Care enrolment, Care & Treatment Performance targets as per the national guidelines.
Work with other facility, district, and project staff to plan and implement quality improvement activities to improve HIV testing outputs, enrolment and retention of clients in care and on ART, clinical and laboratory services monitoring aimed at improved delivery of high-quality HIV continuum of services.
Support facilities in forecasting, quantifying, and requisitioning adequate commodities to support the HIV care and treatment continuum including ARVs, HIV test kits, viral load kits and opportunistic infections (O. Is) management medicines.
Support health facilities in the management of patients with Advanced HIV Disease and implement active pharmacovigilance for HIV and TB medicines.
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Qualifications, Education and Competencies
A Diploma in Clinical Medicine or Nursing with experience in HIV and TB clinical services delivery improvement.
Additional training in HIV/AIDS and TB clinical management.
Knowledge in HIV/AIDS clinical management, including the current national guidelines for HIV and TB prevention, care and treatment.
At least 2 years’ experience in managing HIV/AIDS and TB services in clinical settings.
Willingness to work in rural settings.
Excellent Counselling, Interpersonal, Communication and Computer/ICT Skills.
Ability to communicate in the language dialects used in East Central region (Lusoga, Lugweri, Swahili, Samia, Luganda).
How to Apply
MJAP is dedicated to inclusion and diversity, evaluating all job applicants solely based on merit, regardless of race, gender, color, national origin, religion, age, marital status, or disability. As an equal opportunity employer, MJAP does not charge applicants at any stage and is not responsible for losses from fraudulent recruitment activities.
Qualified candidates are invited to apply by 5:00 PM EAT on Thursday October 23rd, 2025. Please submit your application via this link:
Deadline: 23rd October 2025
For details about advertised position, please visit the website of Makerere University Joint AIDS Program. Consider your application unsuccessful if you don’t hear from us by Tuesday October 28th, 2025. Offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references including but not limited to appropriate background checks, criminal records, and previous employment findings of fraud, corruption, sexual exploitation, abuse or harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures. Please ensure that your attachments do not exceed 25 MB. We do appreciate your interest to work with MJAP. However, we regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted within one week after the submission deadline
