Uganda and Health systems
- Capital:
Kampala - Population:
33398682 - Size:
236040.0 Km2
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- HINARI
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- The BLDS health collection
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Search for the latest health-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Why cultural sensitivity is key to social change: nine case studies from UNFPA programmes
- United Nations Population Fund, 2004
- Published by UNFPA, this guide highlights the importance of cultural analysis and sensitivity in development efforts, addressing issues such as gender equality and equity, HIV and AIDS, female genital cutting, gender-based violence an...
- Decentralisation results in a shift away from preventative health services
- P. Hutchinson; J. Akin; F. Ssengooba / MEASURE Evaluation, 2003
- This paper from Measure studies the impacts of a public sector decentralisation programme on the demand for health care in Uganda in the 1990s. The authors examine how local allocation decisions impact upon individual-level health beh...
- Has donor harmonisation led to improvements in health outcomes?
- High-Level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 2003
- Harmonisation through the Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp) and increased budget support has increased the resources available to the health sector over the past five years. This draft paper from the High-Level Forum on the Health Millenniu...
- Flexible systems, increased capacity and enhanced partnerships needed to ensure access to medicines
- K. Caines; L. Lush / Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health, 2004
- This research report outlines how public-private partnerships (PPPs) intended to provide HIV drugs in three African countries are having limited impact because of the way in which these drugs are priced and patented. The report...
- Public expenditure management can result in pro-poor development results
- J Roberts / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- This ODI working paper is a survey of the practice of results-oriented – or performance-based – public expenditure management in low income developing countries. It is based on seven case studies of low income countries with...
- Varying economic indicators influence assessments of poor-rich inequalities
- T. A. J. Houweling; A. E. Kunst; J. P. Mackenbach / BioMed Central, 2003
- This study, published by BioMed Central, compares the impact of four different wealth indices on the measurement of health inequality among children in developing countries. The study uses the World Bank Asset Index and three other in...
- Every maternal death counts: issues and examples of safe motherhood initiatives
- Reproductive Health Matters, 2000
- This book, produced by Reproductive Health Matters, provides an overview of the problems and challenges raised by safe motherhood work and examples of some of the efforts towards achieving safe motherhood in developing countries in th...
- The twilight zone: confronting the dilemmas of rehabilitation in 'post'-conflict situations
- J. Macrae / Overseas Development Institute, 1995
- This paper, published by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), examines the experience of the health sector in situations of post-conflict transition in Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Uganda. It argues that the weaknesses of rehabilitati...
- Strategic responses to ensure that HIV is effectively mainstreamed within Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
- K. Butcher / John Snow International UK, 2003
- In 1991 Uganda was the first country to adopt a multi-sectoral approach to HIV. It has since been hailed as a Sub Saharan African success story. HIV prevalence has declined from a high of 20% in 1992 to 6.1% in 2001. However, the Ugan...
- Pre-packaged treatment kits against sexually transmitted infections in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Florence Zake / Population Services International, 2001
- This document explores the potential of pre-packaged treatment kits for the treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STI) in Sub-Saharan Africa. It presents the characteristics and benefits of pre-packaged STI treatment (PPST) ki...
- African Palliative Care Association (APCA)
Tanzanian organisation promoting affordable and culturally appropriate palliative care in Africa
- Makerere University Institute of Public Health, Uganda (MUIPH)
- Training and research institute
