Primary Health Care
The decentralization of health services and programmes to district level has been actively supported by WHO. This has involved capacity building at district and community level, monitoring and evaluation programmes and provision of health learning materials to districts.
WHO is supporting government to reactivate the implementation of the Primary Health Care (PHC) strategy. Presently, government policy is to re-orient health services towards PHC. Because of this, workshops have been held at various levels of government to sensitize officials, health workers, political leaders and community leaders about PHC. In addition, medical training curricula have been re-oriented towards PHC.
Future
WHO priorities will continue to focus on supporting government implement theV adopted health sector reforms and nation-wide extension of health services. Broad areas of support and collaboration will be:
- Strengthening partnerships for better coordination and synergy
- Scaling up priority programmes for better health outcomes
- Health systems strengthening
- Strengthening information for health planning and management
- Tackling the determinants of health and intersectoral collaboration
CONTACT INFORMATION
World Health Organization
Corner of Kintu/Shimoni Roads
Box 24578 Kampala Uganda
Tel: +256 41 4335500
Fax: +256 41 4335569