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Becoming Visible: Tackling the Urban Health Divide in Kawempe Slum in Uganda
This pilot project addresses health inequity in Kampala’s poorest slum by exploring the potential of increasing community-generated research findings.
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HEPS-UGANDA: Implementation of the Intellectual Property Rights Activities
May 2012 is the period HEPS-Uganda has set for Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Activity Implementation under its Health Policy Advocacy (HPA) program.
The Objective of the Intellectual Property Right Implementation is to Influence development of National Policy framework on IPR and to also enhance CSO & Public’s Awareness & understanding of IPR & Access to Essential Medicines.
HEPS-UGANDA: Implementation of the Intellectual Property Rights Activities
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Campaign to end paediatric HIV
HEPS Uganda, a coalition for health promotion, is calling on government to take full responsibility for HIV Paediatric treatment.HEPS Uganda, a coalition for health promotion, is calling on government to take full responsibility for HIV Paediatric treatment. Currently all the 28,000 HIV positive children countrywide get their second line HIV treatment through funding by UNITAID, a global Health initiative since 2006. UNITAID is an international drug purchase facility, established to provide long-term, sustainable and predictable funding to increase access and reduce prices of drugs for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries.
Campaign to end paediatric HIV
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Will sh49b additional funding boost health services?
This financial year, the Government has allocated an additional sh49.5b to the health ministry. Of this, sh6.5b has been availed immediately to kick-start the recruitment of over 6,000 health workers in health centres III, IV and V. Vicky Wandawa explores the likely impact of this
Will sh49b additional funding boost health services?
Who we are
HEPS-Uganda is an acronym for Coalition for Health Promotion and Social Development.
It is a health rights organisation that advocates for increased access to affordable essential medicines for the poor and vulnerable people in Uganda.
Latest News
26 April 2014 - 9:59am
May 2012 is the period HEPS-Uganda has set for Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Activity Implementation under its Health Policy Advocacy (HPA) program.The Objective of the Intell...
1 October 2012 - 2:33pm
On March 23rd 2012 over 500 people put Mbarara town on a standstill during the march from Rwebikona to The Independence Park where HEPS Uganda launched the Health Rights Action (HE...