Community Health Workers (CHWs), a pre-existing structure within many low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) health systems, have formed the pillar of these task-shifting activities. Task-shifting approaches have additionally proven successful for the management of both HIV and NCDs globally. Similarly, in Uganda, the PocketDoktor™ booklet has previously been used to implement patient centered education for chronic diseases in urban, Kampala with demonstrated increase in patient activation as well as patient satisfaction. Studies in high-income settings have shown that patient-centered health education interventions such as monthly interactive educational workshops on hypertension, dietary planning and sodium restriction education improve blood pressure control among patients with hypertension. Equipping patients with disease-specific knowledge and lifestyle behavioral change information can improve clinical outcomes for patients with hypertension. Patient-centered education has previously been implemented in LMICs and is defined as “a partnership between health care providers, patients, and families that provides patients with the information necessary to participate in medical decision-making”. Ī number of interventions have been proposed to improve HTN diagnosis and management among PLWHA including patient-centered education and task-shifting approaches. For instance, a study conducted in rural Wakiso district of central Uganda showed very poor knowledge about hypertension and its consequences, with over 80% of the participants unaware of their diagnosis. Although HIV/AIDS programs are well established across Uganda, these have yet to fully integrate hypertension management with HIV care and PLWHA often have limited knowledge about hypertension. A study among PLWHA in an ambulatory care center found the prevalence of HTN in this risk group rose from 16.9% in 2009 to 32.3% in 2013. In Uganda, the estimated prevalence of hypertension among adults was 26.4% in 2015 and 31.5% in 2016. The long-term effects of hypertension include significant morbidity and mortality, and health outcomes may be more deleterious among PLWHA attributable to a combination of risk factors, including exposure to protease inhibitors, aging and direct consequences of HIV. This may be due to PLWHA living longer, increased access to antiretroviral therapy and lifestyle changes. Hypertension (HTN) is the most common NCD and its prevalence among PLWHA has doubled over the past decade. The growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) threatens to undermine the global progress that has been made to manage the HIV/AIDs epidemic in the last thirty years. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.