Ministry of Health Uganda a winner of the 2015 Uganda Sustainable Development Award and accredited Uganda’s Top50 Sustainable Development Agencies in recognition and appreciation of its enormous contribution towards social-economic development of Uganda and attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Uganda. Awarded and Accredited by Public Opinions International
The Ministry of Health Uganda, is a government body set up with the mandate of policy formulation and policy dialogue with Health Development Partners, resource mobilization and budgeting, strategic planning, regulation, advising other ministries on health matters, setting standards and quality assurance, capacity development and technical support, provision of nationally coordinated services such as epidemic control, coordination of health research and monitoring and evaluation of the overall sector performance.
Some functions have been delegated to national autonomous institutions including some specialized clinical support functions (Uganda Blood Transfusion Service (UBTS), National Medical Stores and National Public Health Laboratories), regulatory functions (handled by professional councils, National Drug Authority and other regulatory bodies) and research activities conducted by several research institutions and coordinated by the autonomous Uganda National Health Research Organization (UNHRO).
A healthy and productive population that contributes to socio-economic growth and national development.
To provide the highest possible level of health services to all people in Uganda through delivery of promotive, preventive, curative, palliative and rehabilitative health services at all levels.
Completed Projects
The Government of the Republic of Uganda received financing of SDR 85.7 million equivalent to US$130 million from the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank towards the cost of the Uganda Health Systems Strengthening Project (UHSSP). The Project Development Objective is to deliver the Uganda Minimum Health Care Package… read more
Background
Health services in the 1970s to the mid 1980s were severely eroded by the political upheavals in the country, especially the coups of 1966, 1971, 1979 and 1985. Between 1986 and 1987, there was a total collapse of the health sector and the donors rushed to Uganda to rectify the situation. At that point in… read more
Ongoing Projects
The Uganda Sanitation Fund (USF) is a five-year-long program funded by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC). The program is being implemented by the Ministry of Health across 30 districts in the country. The program aims at reducing morbidity and mortality rates due to sanitation related diseases among people in the… read more
The “Improvement of Health Services Delivery at Mulago Hospital and in the City of Kampala Project” (MKCCAP) funded by the African Bank of Development and the Nigerian Trust Fund was designed to improve access to quality and affordable health care services for the population of the City of Kampala by among other activities, constructing and… read more
Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) offers super specialized services in areas of cancer treatment, research and prevention.
It has a three-fold mission; research into all aspects of common cancers in Uganda, provision of optimal evidence based clinical care, and provision of training for health care professionals using endemic cancers as… read more
Background
The Ministry of Health Headquarters was relocated from Entebbe in 1999 to a new facility in Kampala. The new facility was designed to house the administrative offices of the health ministry and to bring the central level institutions into administrative center of Kampala. Given that the building needs general… read more
Rehabilitation and Construction of General Hospitals’ project is divided into two components: Component one involves the rehabilitation of Kawolo hospital using the Spanish Aid/debt SWAP and is directly managed by Ministry of Health while component two involves the rehabilitation and construction of general hospitals which is directly managed… read more
Ministry of Health
Plot 6, Lourdel Road, Nakasero
P.O Box 7272, Kampala Uganda
Tel: +256 417 712260
Email: [email protected]
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