Uganda National Health Consumers' Organisation

DISCONTINUING STUDENT EXPECTANT MOTHERS VIOLATES REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RIGHTS AND MUST STOP NOW! This is a civil society protest against gender discrimination in the education sector! Voices for Health Rights (VHR) is a coalition of civil society health rights NGOs comprising ...

A CSO policy paper on the Primary Health Care budget was presented to the parliamentary committee on health on 15th April 2014. Below is a video (click link below) with highlights of the meeting; the paper is also presented below. ...

THE 2014 WORLD HEALTH DAY VECTOR CONTROL; A RIGHT TO HEALTH ISSUE FOR UGANDANS Uganda joined the rest of the World on the 7th of April  2014 to celebrate the World Health Day – an annual event that marks the ...

PRESS STATEMENT FROM VOICES FOR HEALTH RIGHTS (VHR) URGENT CALL TO ADDRESS WATER CRISIS IN MULAGO NATIONAL REFERRAL HOSPITAL It is now about two weeks when the media reported about the disconnection of water from Mulago National Referral Hospital by ...

Uganda National Health Users’/Consumers’ Organisation(UNHCO) with the tobacco control advocates is close to achieving the fruit of its labor on the advocacy on the tobacco control bill. Uganda’s Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development has finally issued a Certificate ...

The following broad achievements were identified from the implementation of the previous strategic plan 2007-2011: a) Development of the Patients’ Charter  UNHCO spearheaded the formulation of a Patient’s Charter for Uganda which provides an overall framework for empowerment of health ...

Medicines and supplies worth UGX 5 million was destroyed in an arson attack at Kinuuka Health Center III in Lyantonde district. This was the second arson attack at the health centre. The cause of the attack, though unclear, it is ...

Project title: Assessment of the Extent to which Resources Allocated to the Health Facilities Affect Access to Essential Medicines in Uganda. This is a three year  project funded by the Results for Development Institute Inc (R4D) under the transparency  and accountability ...

UNHCO and partners have launched an advocacy campaign in support of the tobacco control bill. The objectives of this campaign are: to galvanize support for the passage of the tobacco control bill; and to broaden the the voice of Civil Society ...

UNHCO pays tribute to its founder member and patron Dr. Samuel Lwanga who passed-on on 28th December 2012. Dr. Lwanga will always be remembered for his struggle to uphold the right to health in Uganda. In 1999 Dr. Samuel Lwanga ...