Excelsior for Girls Initiative-Uganda

10/02/2020

:
Health Advocates Network (HAN) provides targeted interventions to adolescents and youth by;
1. Engaging parents, caretakers, health service providers, religious leaders, and other community stakeholders.
2. Providing Life skills and life enhancement skills training
3. Serving as a thought leader for adolescent and youth programming
Our flagship Adolescent and Youth programming include;
1. Champion of Change
2. Girl Shine
3. Youth Working Group

Institute for Governance and Social Justice-IGSJ
Munanura Collins Rubagyera

06/12/2018

https://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Man-commits-su***de-after-testing-HIV-positive/688334-4884014-lqhfsp/index.html
The HealthAdvocactes need to intensify campaigns and awareness creation on HIV prevention and management! I am sure this lost soul cd have been saved of our efforts are trickling down to the grassroot communities! so sad!

He was found dead on Thursday morning with the HIV result chit in his pocket

27/08/2018

Promundo and Family Planning 2020 – with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – recently convened a technical consultation with representatives from over 30 organizations to finalize guiding principles and recommendations for advancing the involvement of men and boys as clients, partners, and SRHR advocates.

The 10 priority areas for action are:

1. Implement comprehensive sexuality education with specific gender-transformative content on masculine norms and relationships.
2. Increase men’s uptake of existing male contraceptive methods.
3. Expand the range of contraceptive options available to men and their partners. 4. Increase men’s support for their partners’ SRHR and method use.
5. Promote men’s role as supportive partners and advocates for women’s access to safe abortion services, always respecting a woman’s right to choose.
6. Increase men’s access to and use of HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support.
7. Improve men’s uptake of STI diagnosis and treatment.
8. Engage men in maternal, newborn, and child health.
9. Better address men’s specific sexual and reproductive concerns, including dysfunction and infertility, by improving the structure of health services.
10. Develop men’s capacity as advocates and change agents for SRHR.

It’s time to take action in shifting masculine norms to improve sexual and reproductive health around the world.

Learn more by reading Getting to Equal: Engaging Men and Boys in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and Gender Equality< http://promundo.acemlnb.com/lt.php?s=ae03d01c79301ef55ad456144cc755 b8&i=279A351A2A6716>, which provides additional, concrete recommendations for action for policymakers, donors, implementers, and activists.

09/08/2018

We REFUSE to surrender in the fight against HIVES/AIDS. Join the fight yo for good: bit.ly/2mlb0ny.

Get the most out of your social and online marketing efforts. Own, understand and activate your best audience through the power of the link with Bitly Enterprise.

01/08/2018

Register for the webinar now! »

214 million women of reproductive age in developing regions who want to avoid pregnancy are not using a modern contraceptive method. Evidence suggests that expanding method choice, as well as information about available methods, can improve family planning access for women.
The Advancing Partners & Communities project, in collaboration with Family Planning 2020, the Implementing Best Practices initiative, and USAID's Office of Population and Reproductive Health, will host a webinar series entitled Expanding Contraceptive Choice to share information about various family planning methods.
Please join us for the fifth webinar in this series: Vasectomy, on Thursday, August 2, 2018, from 9:00–10:00 a.m. EDT.
Roy Jacobstein of IntraHealth; Lynn Van Lith of JHUCCP; and Alfred Twagiramungu of Jhpiego, will discuss vasectomy and their in-country and programmatic experiences.
DATE:
Thursday, August 2, 2018
TIME:
9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. EDT
WHERE:
Adobe Connect

Gmail is email that's intuitive, efficient, and useful. 15 GB of storage, less spam, and mobile access.

26/10/2017

13Billion Bonanza given to Ug_MPs to consult their constituencies on Article 102b should have made a significant impact if it was allocated to productive sectors, including the limping healthcare!
Its a question of political will, prioritization and efficiency of resource utilization!

06/09/2017

Girls with secondary schooling are up to six times less likely to marry as children, making education one of the best strategies for protecting girls and ending child marriage. Due to the difference in age and maturity with their, typically, adult partners, child brides are less able to negotiate sexual relationships than older women. They are, therefore, at greater risk of unwanted and frequent pregnancies and acquiring sexually transmitted infections such as HIV. Pregnancy-related complications are the leading cause of death for adolescent girls aged 15-19; therefore addressing gender issues in adolescent health is critical. Adolescent girls and women with some secondary education have greater understanding of HIV and are more likely to negotiate condom use with their partners and, if married, to have greater bargaining power and say when it comes to sexual relations.
Hope Nankunda

20/04/2017

Please join us on April 27th, 2017 from 15:00 – 16:00 (Geneva time) / 09:00 -10:00 (Washington time) for a webinar discussion on Task Sharing Program and Planning.

Family planning is an inexpensive and cost-effective intervention but health workforce shortages and restrictive policies on the roles of mid- and lower-level cadres limit access to effective contraceptive methods in many settings. Expanding the provision of contraceptive methods to other health worker cadres can significantly improve access to contraception for all individuals and couples. Many countries have already enabled mid- and lower-level cadres of health workers to deliver a range of contraceptive methods, utilizing these cadres either alone or as part of teams within communities and/or health care facilities.

The WHO recognizes task sharing as a promising strategy for addressing the critical lack of health care workers to provide maternal and newborn care in low-income countries. Task sharing is envisioned to create a more rational distribution of tasks and responsibilities among cadres of health workers to improve access and cost-effectiveness.

Participants will learn about: WHO guidelines on task sharing for contraception; identifying monitoring & evaluation indicators for task sharing of contraceptives by lower level providers; understand task sharing programs for LARCs as demonstrated in countries; understand programmatic experiences with task sharing of LARCs; learn about country experience in Pakistan on challenges and way forward and challenges

Webinar Objectives:

· To promote the WHO guidelines on task sharing for contraception
· To identify monitoring & evaluation indicators for task sharing of contraceptives by lower level providers
· To describe lessons learned from task sharing programs as demonstrated in Pakistan
· To identify successful advocacy and policy approaches as shown in country experiences of task sharing in Pakistan

Register now!


https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3049054976764876033


Visit our website: who.int/reproductivehealth

Follow us on Twitter:

Family planning is a cost-effective intervention but health workforce shortages and restrictive policies on the roles of mid- and lower-level cadres limit access to effective contraceptive methods in many settings. Expanding the provision of contraceptive methods to other health worker cadres can si...

19/02/2017

26/07/2016

Raising Teenagers-UgandaHope Nankunda

30/05/2016

Having a skilled health professional during childbirth can save the life of a woman and her child. But, in many parts of the world and within many countries, the presence of a health worker during childbirth is often a luxury. If a woman is poor, she is even more likely to deliver without support, putting herself and child at risk.
Hope NankundaInstitute for Governance and Social Justice-IGSJ

30/05/2016

HAN recognizes that women and girls are not homogenous groups, and have different needs depending on heir ae, marital or HIV status, as well as their socio-economic status. Our reproductive, maternal and newborn health program(RMNCH) strategy is geared towards ensuring that the needs and rights of women, girls/children are addressed throughout their life cycle-including by focusing on underserved groups such as adolescents, women living with HIV.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 goals with 169 targets that all 191 UN Member States have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2030. Health has a central place in SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages, underpinned by 13 targets that cover a wide spectrum of WHO’s work. Almost all of the other 16 goals are directly related to health or will contribute to health indirectly. The new agenda, which builds on the Millennium Development Goals, aims to be relevant to all countries and focuses on improving equity to meet the needs of women, children and the poorest, most disadvantaged people.

This forms the basis for our strategy on RMCH at the grass root and district levels-advocating for the improvement of health and longevity of the poor not as an end in itself but also as a fundamental goal of economic development, but also it means to achieving the other development goals related to poverty reduction.
Hope Nankunda
Patience Kyohairwe