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May 19
Legal Aid Session During Our 2019 Kakoma Health Camp
The session was conducted by Huric-Uganda in partnership with the People’s Health Movement
The #SheDecides Campaign.
Over 1000 people joined the festival in Kampala, focused on the theme Stand Up, Speak Out and Take Action for Women and Girls to Decide Freely and Without Question. There was a fantastic range of performers and entertainers and more than 300 people accessed services, which included HIV testing, counselling,…
“Health In The Market Place” Its Implication On The Right To Health In Uganda
This was a symposium organized by SEATINI, our member organizations in the People’s Health Movement-Uganda. Focused on the dynamics in the health sector at the global, regional and national level. Looking at a number of Trade Policies and Negotiations that are ongoing at policy level which, if poorly negotiated can…
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Feb 19
Meeting With Wemos On The Status Of Uganda’s Health System
Analyzing the human resources for health (HRH) situation in Uganda. Focusing on the several aspects around the topic of HRH funding and health finance and the linkages with health systems strengthening; the current shortages, HRH policies, NHIS in Uganda, the WHO Code of recruitment, the donors’ environment and current donor-led…
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Feb 19
The Political Economy of Global Health: Reflections from the Prince Mahidol Award Conference, Bangkok
By Rachel Thompson on February 5, 2019 The conflation of treatment and prevention may be problematic in tackling NCDs Within Global Health, the issues around NCDs are being framed in terms of treatment solutions. Solutions that, for example, often involve public private partnerships to accelerate access to pharmaceutical products. This issue was evident in the UN…
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Feb 19
Galvanizing the Action to Protect and Promote the Rights of Mentally-Disabled Individuals in the Key Populations: a Pathway to Achieve Health for All
Obsolete mental health legislation in Uganda has a number of deficiencies such as failure to differentiate voluntary and involuntary care, inadequate protection and promotion of the human rights of people with mental illness and the presence of slurring and stigmatizing language; and henceforth not in line with the draft mental…
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Jan 19
The Rhetoric In Achieving UHC Under PPPs In Uganda
UHC has remained in a shackled unachievable dream in Uganda due to the wave of liberalization and improper incorporation of the PPPs during the early 1990s into the health system with unclear regulations, objectives and conflicting interests. The woe with the PPPs in Uganda is that the lack of proper…
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Jan 19
Simple solutions for complex problems
Do you know the health system of your Country? An analysis on the Uganda’s domestic health financing towards Health workers through a paper on Simple Solutions For Complex Problems by our Health Rights Advocate Denis Joseph Bukenya on the Wemos Knowledge Platform, Local context ‘For understanding the context of health and illness in the…
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Jan 19
WHA 69 Statement by MMI/PHM 13.2 Health in the 2030 agenda for sustainable development
By Denis Bukenya Joseph Health Rights Researcher And Advocate. How feasible are the SDGs as the global guiding instruments in achieving the the Health for All? With the existing and increasing variance in health accessibility between global south and north, how can countries narrow the inequality gap in health improvement…
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Dec 18
HURIC & PHM-UGANDA Participated In The “Equation of Trade and Right to Food and Health” Public Forum Organized by SEATINI
Discussion on how the right to food has been limited due to the private forces and liberalization, lack of information, limited access to social justice, gap in transpaency, suppy rigidities, ineffectiveness of cooperatives, Bufferstock system. And the rising use of GMOs through multi-state seed corporations like Mosanto.
