Uganda Downsizes Health Budget by 14 per cent
May 9, 2010 at 7:43 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: public funding, Uganda
The Ugandan government has downsized the country’s health budget by 14 per cent. As a result of the budget cuts, reproductive health supplies estimated at Shs7.5b (about $3.5 million) will not be procured during the financial year. The health budget is at 9.7 per cent of the total budget and leaves the country with a 5.3 per cent deficit in total violation of the African Union Abuja Declaration, which includes that the government should allocate at least 15 percent of the national budget towards health.
Source: Read the full article at AllAfrica
Contraceptive Shortage in Uganda
March 12, 2010 at 5:21 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: Contraceptive, Implants, Injectables, Stock-out, Uganda
The Lira Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda faced a contraceptive shortage for the last 10 months. The only available method is pills, while injections and implants, the most preferred methods of family planning, are not available. Injections and implants are preferred because they are discreet methods and can be used for longer periods. According to the senior principal nursing officer, most of the women in the district had between five and ten children as a result of lack of family planning methods.
Get the full article from the All Africa website.
IPPF Fact Sheets
November 13, 2009 at 12:18 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: advocacy, Bangladesh, fact sheet, IPPF, Uganda
IPPF released two fact sheets.
- From advocacy to access: Uganda, The power of networks, how do you mobilize funds for RH supplies?
- From advocacy to access: Bangladesh, 360 Degrees advocacy, how do you strengthen a weak contraceptive supply chain.
The first fact sheet explains how Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU) coordinated civil society and mobilized advocates and champions to increase the availability of RH supplies and family planning.
The second fact sheet explains how the Family Planning Association of Bangladesh (FPAB) worked successfully with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to improve the dysfunctional supply chain.
Country level advcacy in action – Project RMA’s country level advocacy work in Ghana and Uganda has received notable press coverage in recent months
April 7, 2009 at 2:56 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: Ghana, IPPF, press, Project RMA, Uganda
Project RMA and its partners are receiving impressive press coverage in both Ghana and Uganda. A set of six articles can be accessed on the Project RMA country level advocacy homepage. The articles cover a wide range of supply-related issues, including the impact of RH supplies shortages in Uganda, the involvement of Ghana’s first lady in promoting the inclusion of family planning on Ghana’s National Health Insurance scheme, and supply-related advocacy at the district level in Ghana.
Source: SupplyInsider March 2009
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