huric, Author at Huric-Uganda

24 Oct 19

Retroversion Transformation Approach Through community Health Workers

The partnerships contribution towards reverse knowledge innovation is indispensable in global health and development, without them, the global community would have failed to fully acclimate to its ever emerging health dynamics. Reversal Knowledge Innovation refers to the flow of ideas through innovations and inventions from emerging or developing Low Income…

13 Oct 19

Litigation Capacity Building Training and Workshop

The training was intended to strengthen the HURIC’s advocacy work and deepen the understanding of the Legislation framework in Uganda for the Litigation department at HURIC.

24 Sep 19

SET-SRHR Project

Our HURIC/PHM-UGANDA team participated in this training. About the training: ToT-400 is the professional track of the Strengthening Education and Training in Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SET-SRHR) Curriculum Delivery component in Uganda The course is a standardized, professional, in-service SRHR Trainer-of-Trainers certificate course offered jointly by Nsamizi Training Institute…

28 Aug 19

Our Bi-annual Newsletter. January-June 2019

How much do you know about our work at national, regional and global in the recent past and beyond? PHM-Uganda, brings you the latest and past work that we have been engaged in, significant global events such as World Health Assembly (WHA) and the events where we have empowered communities…

23 Jul 19

CONNECTING GLOBAL DEBATES TO LOCAL REALITIES AT THE 2019 WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY

By Michael Ssemakula The article, link to the article, focuses on two significant issues; Public Health Emergency Response, in particular Ebola crisis in DRC and Access to Medicines through the medicines transparency resolution debates, and its impact on Africa. It demystifies the member states’ approach towards the transparency resolution and the their…

23 Jul 19

Building Health in Communities through Community Health workers: Challenges and Solutions

By Michael Ssemakula and Denis Bukenya. The report explains our role as Civil society in grass root communities. It justifies PHM and HURIC’s recent engagement with the Community Health Workers (CHWs), mainstream health professionals and the community in Kakoma, Isingiro district, Western Uganda which was held in May 2019. This report is available…

17 Jul 19

Governance for health in Africa (Lessons learnt since independence to inform the future)

The conference focused on governance for health in Africa (Lessons learnt since independence to inform the future) with the gist on the Human resources for health (mainstream health practitioners, WHO code of practice, leadership/governance, planning and migration of health workers). Organized by The African Centre for Global Health and Social…

19 Jun 19

BOOSTING COMMUNITY-LED RESPONSES TO REACHING THE MOST MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES: FROM LOCAL COMMUNITIES, TO PRIMARY HEALTH CARE TO UHC

Official “non-state actor” side event to the WHA organized by Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) and Medicus Mundi International, with partners. What role does civil society play in upholding fundamental human rights in universal health coverage and primary health care? What is needed to ensure that key,…

31 May 19

WHO Watchers’ Workshop in Ferney-Voltaire France

Michael Ssemakula: making analysis during the WHO-watchers’ workshop on the third round of reporting on the implementation of the Global code of practice on the international recruitment of health workers in the WHO regions. Our PHM global network follows closely the work of WHO, both through the World Health Assembly and…

31 May 19

WHO-Watchers For The WHA72 In Geneva

Following closely the work of World Health Organization, through the World Health Assembly and the Executive Board. This was a team of PHM/HURIC volunteers attending WHO-WHA72 bodies’ meetings – following up on the debates, talking with delegates and making statements to the EB. More about this check on this link https://www.ghwatch.org/who-watch/events…