Uganda National Health Consumers' Organisation

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...