Taking Family Planning Services to the Workplaces
Today, working couples are faced with a challenge of lack of time to access family planning (FP) counselling, knowledge, services and making product choices. Work place activations are intended to reach the working couples at their work places with information, products and services to enable them make informed choices on the various family planning products and services. FP at the workplace targets corporate entities, factories, and markets since the nature of work in these
Providing Mama Kits to Improve Quality of Care in 310 Faith-based Facilities
It’s estimated that 6 in 10 Ugandans receive health services from private health facilities. This underscores the important contribution the private health facilities make to health service delivery in Uganda. Faith based facilities comprise a significant portion of the private health facilities in the country. Uganda Health Marketing Group (UHMG) works with the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau (UCMB), the Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau (UPMB), the Uganda Moslem Medical Burea
Indiscriminate Malaria Treatment Averted through Training
In the recent past, presumptive malaria treatment was on the rise, resulting into inefficiencies and malaria interventions cost ineffectiveness. Not all fevers are caused by malaria and there is need for testing before treatment for malaria is given. It was revealed that drug pressure is the single most important factor in the development of resistance following presumptive antimalarial treatment (WHO 2002). To reduce the increasing drug resistance, in all cases of fever, our
Religious Leader Supports Condom Promotion to Curb New HIV Infections
Whereas Uganda has successfully implemented abstinence, mutual fidelity, condom use, safe male circumcision and eMTCT programs to reduce new HIV infections, a section of religious leaders are still critical to condom promotion activities, a key component of Uganda’s HIV prevention package. During a community mobilization meeting on HIV prevention and elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV (eMTCT) in Soroti, Rev. Michael Okwii Esakhan of St. Peter’s Theological Col
Reaching the Urban Women with PillplanPlus
UHMG is the Home of the The Bride and Groom Expo is an annual event organized by the Vision group. The event is organized to attract women and men planning to have weddings. The event also brings together all major service providers to showcase their wedding ideas to the general public. This year, the 8th edition of the 3-day Bride and Groom expo that was held on June 24 – 26, 2016 attracted over 10,000 visitors at the Uganda Manufactures Association (UMA) show grounds. Using
