Regional Reports

In March 2018, the average global acute malnutrition (GAM) rate in children in Nsinze and Magada subcounties in Namutumba district in East Central Uganda was 39.5%, which is above the national threshold of 30%.

More than 18,000 teen girls, aged 15-19 years, give birth each year in the Busoga Region. The media often glamorize teens having sexual intercourse and teen parenting, but the reality is starkly different.

Nathan, Hudson, and Christopher are triplets born to Christine (39 years), a subsistence farmer living in Nkombe Village, Mawoota Parish, Mayuge District in East Central Uganda.

Stanley Ibula is one of 131 sub-county health workers trained by USAID’s Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in East Central Uganda (USAID RHITES-EC) Project to support health care workers conduct tuberculosis (TB) sensitization, case identification, and linkage to treatment.

James, 38, is a fisherman living with HIV. For the past nine years, he and his wife Catherine receive their HIV antiretroviral treatment from Sigulu Health Centre III on Sigulu Island, Namayingo district, Uganda.

Rose, a wife and mother of six, was concerned about the frequent malaria episodes her 4-year-old child had experienced during the past six months.

A well-functioning supply chain management system is essential for ensuring accurate quantification, ordering, timely reporting and efficient inventory management of health commodities at all health service delivery points.

In June 2020, Lukungu, 84, visited Busesa HC IV in Bugweri district complaining of cough, general body weakness, and weight loss. At the health centre, the 84-year-old grandfather received a diagnosis of TB.

Maureen Nangobi is a HIV counsellor who is passionate about improving outcomes for people living with HIV (PLHIVs). She provides psychosocial support to PLHIVs receiving their HIV care and treatment at Nankandulo HC IV.

As a mother of six, a wife, and a schoolteacher, 38-year old Aisha was concerned about her own health when she started coughing up blood.

Barbara (26 years) was seven months pregnant and had developed a high temperature, lower abdominal pain, general body weakness, headache and was vomiting. Barbara was also bleeding.

Pretty (pseudonym) is a Female Sex Worker (FSW) who works at a pub in Busia district. She first heard about pre exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), which are antiretroviral (ARV) medications that substantially reduce an individual’s risk of acquiring HIV, in January 2020 during a sensitization meeting convened by her peer leader.

Dinah, age 26, is a full-time working mother from Iganga district. When she was five months pregnant, she became nauseous, losing her appetite. She ate infrequent and non nutritious meals and stopped taking her iron tablets.

Every Thursday, 19-year-old Ibrahim visits the adolescent HIV clinic at Bugiri Hospital in East Central Uganda. Ibrahim lives with HIV and relies on daily antiretroviral treatment to keep him healthy.

Uganda adopted the implementation of TB preventive therapy (TPT) in 2014 as an effective intervention for preventing morbidity and mortality attributed to TB, especially among HIV-infected individuals.

Bwaira Moreen a clinical officer, started work at Kiyunga HC IV’s HIV treatment clinic in June 2020. One of her first tasks on joining the health facility was to review all children and adolescents’ files to ensure they had recent viral load test results (not more than six months old) and ensure that they regularly visited the clinic for drug refills and clinical assessments.

Waiswa, a peasant farmer, lives with his family in Kaliro district in East Central Uganda. Unlike other households in Kaliro, Waiswa’s home did not have a pit latrine, increasing his family’s risk of contracting diarrheal diseases due to poor sanitation practices.

Carol (26 years old) visited a private healthcare facility in Busia district because she was experiencing labour like pains. Carol was assisted by the midwife to deliver a premature baby boy at 28 weeks of gestation, who was severely underweight (weighed 1.4 kg).

Dr. Fredrick Isabirye, an experienced medical doctor, and the district health officer (DHO) for Buyende district in East Central Uganda was concerned about the upsurge in malaria cases being reported at health facilities in his area of jurisdiction.

Wilbur, is a 38 year old man living with HIV. He lives in Makada Village, Bugemba Subcounty in Namayingo district with his wife and six children.

Florence, 25 years, is a mother of five children (four boys and one girl) from Iganga District. She got married at 17 years and had never used any family planning method because she feared the possible side effects.

Hajira, a 22-year-old mother living in Bulamawo Village in Luuka District, East Central Uganda, was not producing enough breast milk for her two-month old son Nicholas. Nicholas weighed only 3 kilograms—well below the 5 kilogram average weight of a two-month old boy—and suffered from frequent diarrhea.

Flavia is an eight-year-old HIV positive orphan, who following the death of both her parents in 2019, moved to live with her aunt in Jinja district. Flavia is an eight-year-old HIV positive orphan, who following the death of both her parents in 2019, moved to live with her aunt in Jinja district.

The UNAIDS Fast-Track Strategy to End the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 aims to have 95% of all people living with HIV (PLHIV) on antiretroviral therapy (ART) with a suppressed viral load by the year 2030.

The Ministry of Health revised the HIV Testing Services (HTS) Policy and Implementation Guidelines (2018) to include Oral HIV Self-Testing (HIVST) and assisted HIV partner notification services.

Doreen, a psychosocial counselor at the AIDS Support Organization (TASO) Health Center in Jinja, Eastern Uganda, recalls the day she visited a weak and emaciated patient named Moses.

In February 2018, Jinja Regional Referral Hospital (Jinja RRH), a USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in East Central Uganda (RHITES-EC) partner facility, was achieving only 50% of its weekly HIV treatment initiation (TX_NEW) target of 14 individuals

In February 2018, USAID’S’s Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in East-Central Uganda (USAID’s RHITES-EC) project began implementing the TX_NEW surge plan to accelerate identification and antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation of HIV positive patients.

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a pressing public health issue in Uganda. According to the Uganda Demographic Health Survey 2016, 51% of women and 52% men age 15-49 have experienced some form of physical violence since age 15.