Linking governance to Services delivery

The Health unit management committee (HUMC) has a major role to play in ensuring that the lower level public health facilities focus on quality improvement and achieving the necessary outcomes including access to quality maternal and child health services. Improving quality is about making healthcare safer, effective, patient centred, timely, efficient and equitable.

One of the strategy HNU uses is building the capacity of the HUMC in social accountability tools especially community score card (CSC) and empowering the Village healyh team members (VHTs) to improve performance at facility through training in quality assurance approaches.The community score cards is a tool which aims to empower women and men to raise their issues and perception of service delivery and evaluate the services provided by public health facilities. In return it offers government and health service provides an opportunity to provide explanations and planned action to deliver services.

Using private healthcare entrepreneur

Private Healthcare entrepreneurs to provide earlier, faster and cost effective primary healthcare services and disseminate preventive and promotive health information at the local level through Family Healthcare Centre (FHC).

Village Health Groups as a gateway

Village Health group (VHG) is a membership association owned and managed

Towards An AIDS Free Generation-Starting with the Children in Uganda (2015/2017)

In this project we aim to reduce the number of children ‘dropping out’ of the PMTCT cascade ánd increase the number of children on ART.

We will do this in a 3-fold approach:

Access to sustained care and treatment services

HNU works with the local government health care centres as well as private / NGOs to further scale-up ART and ensure facilities are operational in hard to reach places and developing community referral system. HNU promotes the link with the local government health units to ensure improved access to the inexpensive medicines needed to treat common infections and helped improve access to treatment among the affected and infected vulnerable communities.