By Moses Talibita, Legal Officer, Uganda National Health Users and Consumers Organisation (UNHCO) As epidemics continue to pose threats to public health in Uganda, ensuring patient safety takes on even greater importance. A cornerstone of this safety net ...
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Feed SubscriptionSupporting a Mandatory Trans Fatty Acid (TFA) regulation for the East African Community (EAC)
Background, Purpose and Objectives The purpose of the project is to support the development a mandatory TFA national standard that could be adopted at the East African level Specific Objectives 1)To build consensus among key decision makers (national and regional) ...
Read More »Heart Health and Covid-19: Why Uganda Needs to Regulate Trans Fatty Acids
COVID-19 has brought to centre stage the most important health issue of our era, largely ignored by policymakers and the public to date: non communicable diseases (NCDs), the cause of 71% of global deaths per year. People living with NCDs, ...
Read More »Patient Dis-empowerment and the Rise in Hospital Detention Cases
UNHCO has repeatedly received reports of hospital detentions from patients and/or there caretakers. The media has also reported several cases of people being detained in private hospitals in Uganda for non-payment of hospital bills, despite the fact that hospital detention is ...
Read More »END PREVENTABLE MATERNAL DEATHS IN UGANDA – A CALL FOR ACTION BY CIVIL SOCIETY
September 27, 2011 PRESS STATEMENT END PREVENTABLE MATERNAL DEATHS IN UGANDA – A CALL FOR ACTION BY CIVIL SOCIETY This is a day before the Uganda Constitutional Court proceeds with a landmark court case on maternal deaths – Petition Number ...
Read More »PATIENTS STRIKE AT MULAGO HOSPITAL
UNHCO has been following the events that happened over the last 4 days in Mulago Referral hospital. Patients admitted to Mulago Hospital with spinal injuries early this week went on the strike abandoning their ward, demonstrating against lack of medical ...
Read More »Prioritizing MDG 5.B – Working with University Students
In September 2006, the United Nations General Assembly resolved to adopt Target 5.B of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): “Achieve by 2015, Universal Access to Reproductive Health”. The four official indicators for MDG 5.B are: contraceptive prevalence rate; adolescent birth ...
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