HEPS-Uganda, World Health Organisation, Ministry of Health and partners have reviewed the draft Uganda Snakebite Prevention and Management Strategy to guide the country on snakebites. The review process took place during a high level stakeholders’ meeting that was conducted at World...

Health facilities in Lira district   are struggling to manage expectant mothers with pre-eclampsia condition. Pre-eclampsia is a pregnancy disorder characterized by hypertension especially after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The condition is the second cause of maternal deaths worldwide and...

Sister Doreen Akuno, is a senior medical officer at Lira Regional Referral Hospital.  She had her first child at 18 years  in 2004 and she almost died during the pregnancy  due to pre-eclampsia. Despite the fact that she is in the medical field, she had no knowledge about the...

HEPS-Uganda has for the last three years been supporting communities to find measures to prevent maternal mortality due to unsafe abortion in Kamuli district. This is being done through community level engagement and research to increase access to safe services for prevention and...