PATIENT DETENTIONS AT NSAMBYA ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL OVER ACCRUED MEDICAL BILLS VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS WE are Uganda National Health Consumer’s Organisation (UNHCO) and champion promotion and defense of patients’ rights in Uganda. THIS petition is to condemn the rampant patient ...
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Feed SubscriptionMPOWER Award Acceptance Speech by Robinah Kaitiritimba at the 17th WCTOH
This is an extra-ordinary day as we celebrate yet another win against the Tobacco Industry. Mayor Bloomberg, you are well known and celebrated all over the World for your exceptional contribution to humanity. Today it is about saving lives ...
Read More »East African Court of Justice Stops URA collecting Tax from BAT
obacco Control in Uganda suffers set back in making tobacco products less affordable following East Affrican Court accepting the application for an injuction against the Excise Duty (Ammendment) Act 2017. When Tobacco products are more expensive, Uganda registers many health ...
Read More »Civil 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 »VECTOR CONTROL; A RIGHT TO HEALTH ISSUE FOR UGANDANS
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 ...
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 »TOBACCO CONTROL BILL TO BE TABLED IN PARLIAMENT
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 ...
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 »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 ...
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