Uganda National Health Consumers' Organisation

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 ...

The community Score Card as a Community Monitoring Tool. The Community Score Card (CSC) engages providers of services (duty bearers/health workers/ DHTs) and service users (Right Holders/health consumers/users) separately on various aspects of service delivery and then brings them together ...

Regional AIDS Training Network (RATN) is a network-based, non-governmental regional organisation committed to the facilitation of capacity and skills development of individuals and institutions for effective HIV and AIDS response in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region. RATN currently has ...

Following unconfirmed reports of three mothers who died out of negligence of health workers at Lyantonde Hospital from a partner organisation, UNHCO set off to verify the information given. The District Chairperson’s View: The first stop was at the Lyantonde ...

UNHCO has started distributing Mama Kits in the districts of Luweero, kamuli and Lyantonde. So far 160 Mama Kits have been distributed in the district of Luweero. The beneficiaries are mothers who deliver from public health facilities. The facilities that ...

Download Communique by Clicking this Link: Over the last decade, government has formulated a wide range of policies, action plans, enacted new laws and established new institutions to lead its anti-corruption efforts. However, these efforts have yielded substandard results and ...

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 ...

Press Release on Maternal Health Petition Kampala, Thursday, 07/04/2011 – a Media Briefing of civil society organizations organized by the Uganda National Health Consumers’ Organization (UNHCO) has come up to speak against the unacceptable higher maternal deaths in Uganda. CONTRIBUTORY ...

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 ...