Transaid is soon to begin work with the UK Department of International Development (DFID) to improve access to health for people in the Acholi region of Northern Uganda.
The area, which borders onto Sudan and The Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been deeply affected by conflict in recent years. As a result, 95% of the region was abandoned causing around 1.2 million people to become displaced in refugee camps. It is estimated that 39% of households are living in extreme poverty.
The five year project is focused on the safe delivery of children and aims to strengthen local and national health care systems to improve access to health for the most vulnerable. Transaid’s role will be focused on strengthening the medical supply chain to increase access to essential medicines and will also look at implementing free emergency transport for pregnant women and mothers.
This project follows on from Transaid’s work earlier this year to help strengthen operations within Uganda’s National Medical Stores which stock and supply medicines for the whole country. During this project Transaid reviewed and made recommendations on how to improve the efficiency of drug distribution to the population.
This new project will enable some of those findings to be put into action at a local level and in a region which desperately needs improved access to health care for those whose lives would usually be threatened by not being able to afford to pay for it.
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