With financial support from WACI Health Kenya, Rwenzori Center for Research and Advocacy (RCRA) in partnership with the Ministry of Health and other development partners successfully introduced a new medicine- Heat Stable Carbetocin (HSC) and Tranexamic Acid (TXA) in Uganda for prevention and treatment of Postpartum Hemorrhage respectively from 2021 to 2022.
This included facilitating updating the Essential Packages of Health Services (EPHS) for the inclusion of Heat Stable Carbetocin and Tranexamic Acid for the management of Postpartum Hemorrhage in line with the UHC Agenda in Uganda, through facilitating Technical Working Group (TWG) meetings for reviewing and updating the Essential Package of Health Services, included key stakeholders such as the MoH Senior Management, The Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Uganda (AOGU), District Health Officers (DHOs), National Medical Stores (NMS), Director of Regional Referral Hospitals.
Convened validation meetings for reviewing, updating and finalizing the Uganda National Essential Package of Health Services.
Accelerating access to numerous family planning services, primary healthcare, and climate resilient families in rural underserved communities in the Albertine region.
With funding from Community Health and Sustainable Environment (CHASE Africa), RCRA is implementing activities aimed at scaling access to numerous family planning services, primary healthcare, and climate resilient families in rural underserved communities in the Albertine region. The activities will continue creating awareness on the benefits of being able to choose the timing and spacing of children and the family planning methods available thereby increasing access to a full range of modern contraceptives and other primary health care services, and integrated natural resource management.
The activities builds on the vast experience gained from the several outreaches in Kasese district sub-counties since inception in 2019 and the lessons learnt during implementation. The community activities are currently implemented in the 3 districts, namely; Kasese, Bunyangabu and Isingiro district in the Nakivake Refugees Settlement.
Overall Goal:
To meet the unmet need for sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in Kasese and Bunyangabu districts, while simultaneously empowering communities to manage their natural resources in a sustainable manner, contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Intended Objectives
⦁ Improve awareness and uptake of family planning and adolescent sexual reproductive health and rights (ASRHR) of 110,000 persons among whom 33,936 persons will access quality, integrated SRH services by December 2025.
⦁ Increase access of young people (10-19 years) to appropriate sexual reproductive health services, maternal and child health, HIV prevention and treatment by December 2025.
⦁ Increase community capacity to sustainably manage their natural resources, increase food security, improve livelihoods, and balance ecosystems and human health.
⦁ Strengthen RCRA’s capacity and systems to effectively deliver family planning services through different channels and undertake program monitoring and evaluation
Actions to achieve the project goals will include:
Planning and quarterly review meetings at district level, awareness raising among the targeted population, community Mobilization and sensitization, Refresher training for community health workers and peer educators, Conducting mobile day outreach day clinics, Formation of new and strengthening existing adolescent health clubs in schools, Integrated family planning mobile outreach day Clinics, door-to-door home visits, by community health workers and Backpack Nurses, referrals, sexuality health and conservation education, gender awareness raising, construction of energy cooking stoves, establishment of backyard vegetable gardens, drying racks, tippy taps, mosquito nets, social behavior change communications.