Uganda

• Vincent Oketcho, Chief of Party, Uganda Capacity Project

  “I became interested in the health workforce because I’ve seen it firsthand,” says Vincent Oketcho, who began his global health career as a medical doctor specializing in public health. “In Uganda, we’re short of people, in number, in skills. They are not performing...

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• When No One Is There: Uganda’s Absent Health Workers

  Preliminary results from a recent study in Uganda suggest that health workers may be absent from their posts as much as 35% of the time. The health workers most likely to be absent are often the more highly trained workers such as doctors or clinical officers. The study presents a stark,...

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• African Health Ministers’ New Commitments Focus on eHealth

  Last month, a number of African health ministers recommitted to making more investments in the health sector, building greater health research capacity, accelerating the response to noncommunicable diseases, and employing eHealth technologies to improve the efficiency, quality, and use of health...

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• Twenty-Six Health Managers Complete Leadership Training Course in Uganda

  Last month, 26 Ugandan health leaders and managers from seven different districts completed six months of training in leadership and management at the Health Manpower and Development Centre in Mbale. The training was aimed at helping health managers respond to and remedy poor staff retention,...

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• IntraHealth’s Technical Leadership: Gender Equality in the Health Workforce

  Last month, the International Journal for Equity in Health published an article written by an IntraHealth International-led research team that highlights the absence of men in the HIV/AIDS caregiving workforce in three districts in Lesotho. The study concluded that HIV/AIDS caregiving is...

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• New UNFPA Report Highlights Need for 350,000 More Midwives

  Last week, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and partner agencies released The State of the World’s Midwifery 2011 report, which shows the world is short 350,000 midwives—nearly the same number of women who die each year from complications of pregnancy or childbirth:...

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• Workforce Leaders Train to Develop Solutions to the Uganda Health Workforce Challenge

  Last week, the Uganda Capacity Program kicked off the first week of a 24-week training course with 32 human resource managers and health workers from seven districts. The training encourages the participants to work in teams to identify and create a plan to resolve key challenges to meeting each...

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• IntraHealth Partners with Uganda Ministry of Health to Foster Gender Equality in the Health Workforce

  Last month, the Uganda Capacity Program and the Ministry of Health conducted a workshop in Jinja, Uganda about the importance of gender equality in human resources policy and planning as well as human resources management. The workshop also included a presentation about the forthcoming...

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• CapacityPlus and WHO Partner to Keep Health Workers in Rural Areas

  Although half the world’s population lives in rural areas, only about 25% of physicians and 38% of nurses work in these communities, according to the World Health Organization, limiting access to health care. Earlier this week, IntraHealth International’s global project, Capacity...

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• Ugandan District Sees Progress on Health Workforce Goals with Planning

  Last month, staff from the Kumuli District Health Office in Uganda reported that they have succeeded in recruiting 73 of the planned 80 new health workers (nurses, midwives, radiographers, and laboratory technicians), constructed 10 houses for health workers, and provided uniforms to 50 health...

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