Health Service Delivery and Systems Strengthening
Uganda’s burden of disease is dominated by communicable diseases, which account for over 50%ofmorbidity and mortality. Malaria, HIV/AIDS, TB, and respiratory, diarrheal, epidemic-prone and vaccine-preventable diseases are the leading causes of illness and death.
There is also a growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including mental health disorders. Maternal and prenatal conditions also contribute to the high mortality. Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) remain a big problem in the country affecting mainly rural poor communities. Furthermore, there are wide disparities in health status across the country, closely linked to underlying socioeconomic, gender and geographical disparities:
Inadequate Human Resource for Health
The major challenges affecting the health system are the lack of resources to recruit, deploy, motivate and retain human resources for health, particularly in remote localities; ensuring quality of the healthcare services delivered; ensuring reliability of health information in terms of the quality, timeliness and completeness of data; and reducing stock-out of essential/tracer medicines and medical supplies. Tuberculosis is among the top five causes of death in Uganda.
- Operates a health Centre in the names of Kagumu Health Centre III which provides compressive health services ranging from OPD, in patient, antenatal, maternity, immunization, Family planning, dental eye care, HIV/AIDS and TB counseling and testing including STI/STDs.
- Distribute long lasting insecticide treated nets to pregnant mothers and children less than five years.
- Train youth in school on malaria prevention and management strategies.
- Hold community health education out-reaches on appropriate hygiene and sanitation practices (water purification, waste management etc).
- Train youth in school on HIV prevention and management strategies.
- Community based HCT and referral.
- Initiating People Needing treatment on ART.
- Promoting consistent and correct use of condoms.
- Strengthening sexual behavior change communication events to address social-cultural, gender and other drive education or of HIV infection, TB and Malaria.
- Train counseling aides to provide support and home based care supporting HIV/AIDS affected Households.
- Train Adolescent girls and young women on family planning and HIV.
- Strengthening sexual behavior change communication events to address social-cultural, gender and other drivers of HIV infection.
- Train counseling aides to provide support and home based care supporting HIV/AIDS affected Households.
- Train Adolescent girls and young women on family planning and HIV.
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