5th April 2016 UNHCO: A fresh outbreak of cholera has been reported in Eastern Uganda. The Monitor newspaper reported that at least one person has been confirmed dead and more than 25 others hospitalised following a cholera outbreak in ...
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Feed SubscriptionCivil Society presents policy paper on Primary Health Care to Parliament
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. ...
Read More »URGENT CALL TO ADDRESS WATER CRISIS IN MULAGO NATIONAL REFERRAL HOSPITAL
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 ...
Read More »Featured Project: Effect of Health Facility Resources on Access to Essential Medicines
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 ...
Read More »Why Uganda Needs Strong Tobacco Control Measures
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 ...
Read More »Maternal Deaths in Lwengo and Lyantonde Districts
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 ...
Read More »UNHCO starts distributing Mama Kits
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 ...
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 »Compensate Maternal Death Victims
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 ...
Read More »Maternal Health: the Legal Framework for Uganda
The importance of good health to a woman’s well-being – and that of her family – cannot be overstated. Without healthy mothers, we cannot have healthy children. Without safe motherhood, women cannot fully exercise their fundamental human rights, such as ...
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