Uganda National Health Consumers' Organisation

World AIDS Day, is commemorated 1st December every year since 1988, the celebrations are dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection, and remembering those who have died of the disease. World AIDS ...

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a hallmark of a government’s commitment to improve the welfare of all its citizens and a vital investment to improve the productivity and wealth of any nation. The Uganda Vision 2040 has already outlined strategies ...

The Maternal Health Project Phase two (MHP): Uganda National Health Consumers Organisation (UNHCO) and her partners from the Voices for Health Rights (VHR) have since Tuesday August 11th 2015 distributed over 250 bicycles to Village Health Teams (VHTs). The VHR ...

The letter below entails the proposed amendments for the Right to health in the Constitution of Uganda. This has been sent to and received by the Uganda Law Reform commission.

Below is the link to the deliberations of the Expert Consultation on the WHO Framework on Patient and Family Engagement, that was held on 27-28 October 2014, in Geneva. This consultation was  part of the joint project between WHO and ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...