Health Policy Planning & Management at Mak

17/04/2020

The health workers want government to avail them with enough PPE equipment, train them in Covid-19 response and look into their transport challenge

19/03/2020

Join us on Twitter today for a LIVE media briefing on in Africa with world-leading experts from WHO, including Dr Tshidi Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.

Date: Thursday 19 March
Time: 14:00 (GMT+1)

25/02/2020

09/02/2020

Overview Overview Paragraph Course dates: 20 - 24 July 2020 This short course builds on the world-class teaching, research and policy work on health systems at LSHTM. It aims to provide an interactive introduction to the field of health policy and systems research. The course will equip participants...

30/01/2020

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the virus outbreak a global health emergency after its spread across the globe.

09/01/2020

"The main threat to the resilience of vaccination programs globally is vaccine misinformation," Brewer said. "When there's a large drop in vaccination coverage, it's almost always because there's an unproven vaccine safety scare."

Immunization programs’ resilience to shocks is central to their success, but little empirical evidence documents resilience in action. We sought to ch…

13/12/2019

And that's how we ended our final departmental meeting of 2020!

12/12/2019

Vaccine-preventable diseases could cost Africa US$ 22.4 billion and more than 915,000 deaths.

12/12/2019

Dr. Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho of Makerere University School of Public Health : "When you look at our situation in Uganda, Health care services are supposed to be for free. But then in reality, they are not free. When you look at the total health expenditure for Uganda about 40% of that expenditure comes out-of-pocket. It comes from workers, it comes from you know desperate people in the village and so on which means that people are incurring a lot of costs trying to receive this care."

02/12/2019

Nearly a third of Uganda's new HIV infections occur among 15-to-25-year-olds, who say that despite progress, stigma is still a problem. To raise awareness ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, Uganda holds an annual fashion and a beauty pageant for young people infected with HIV and calls them the....

29/11/2019

"...,households living in areas where community health entrepreneurs were active had higher odds on using modern contraceptives and had more knowledge of modern contraceptive methods, sexually transmitted infections and symptoms of sexually transmitted infections. This study provides the first evidence supporting the role of community health entrepreneurship in providing rural communities with sexual and reproductive health care."

Abstract. The purpose of the current study was to explore the association between community health entrepreneurship and the sexual and reproductive health stat

26/11/2019

Our Department Head Dr Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho having a breakfast meeting with Research Associates attached to the department.