Is Uganda "getting to zero" in terms of medicine stock-outs?
On 30 th November, 2011 HEPS-Uganda in collaboration with the National Forum of People Living with HIV/AIDS Networks in Uganda (NAFOPHANU) carried out a pill check on availability of essential medicines for HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria in 15 selected district hospitals in Uganda namely; Kalangala, Soroti, Kabale, Mukono, Mbarara, Masin...
Read more...Students' Health Advocacy Project.
The Students’ Health Advocacy Project as a community outreach programme of HEPS-Uganda basically targets schools in Rubaga Division to make the students aware of their health rights and responsibilities. This has been going on from 2010 up to date. Currently there is new SHAP team carrying on the activities of SHAP.
So far SHAP activities have been conducted in a few schools and for some schools a...
Read more...Stop Stock-outs: a campaign for access to medicines
A ‘stock-out’ is when a pharmacy temporarily has no medicine on the shelf. It may affect one medicine or many medicines, or in the worst case, all medicines. The consequences for patients are grave; they may go without the medicines they need, or seek alternative and sometimes inappropriate medicine. A campaign in five African countries – Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe – is underway to...
Read more...Campaign to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS (CEPA)
With support from Global AIDS Alliance, civil society organisations (CSOs) in Uganda have launched a three-year Campaign to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS (CEPA) that focuses on overcoming policy and implementation bottlenecks to scaling up prevention of Mother -to-Child Transmission (PMTCT+) and pediatric diagnosis, treatment and care. Over the next three years, CEPA will advocate for accelerated actio...
Read more...As part of the on-going Stop Stockout campaign, HEPS-Uganda joined hands with commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as ‘boda boda’, to raise awareness of their medicine Tuesday 15th December 2009.
The event took place in Mengo, a suburb of Kampala city. About 20 cyclists participated in the event, in which they highlighted their plight as people who overwork but still cannot afford medicines because their trade does not pay much.
HEPS-Uganda and the cyclists were joined by other Stop Stock-out Campaign partners to an activity code named "Raising medicine needs of boda boda cyclists", which also involved cleaning the streets of Mengo town.
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Community Involvement in MDP 301 microbicide trial in Masaka Uganda
(HEPS Policy Briefing Series) (384)- Community Involvement in HIV prevention research policy brief
(HEPS Policy Briefing Series) (201) - April - June 2010 - Medicine Price Monitor
(Medicine Price Monitor) (268) - Medicines: Prices and Availability (Facts + Figures)
(Medicine Price Monitor) (225) - HEPS Uganda Annual Report 2009
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