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AIDS, Primary Health Care and Poverty
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-04)
This paper analyzes the complex interrelation between poverty and AIDS. Poverty, in its many and diverse aspects and with its many and diverse consequences, creates a fertile breeding ground for the expansion of HIV/AIDS. ...
ARV Treatment in Poor Settings: the State of the Art
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-04)
Universal access to antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) has created enormous debate and controversy in developing countries. But it seems to be a more feasible prospect by the day. Prices of ARVs have dramatically come down, and ...
From Alma Ata to Millennium Development Goals: To What Extent Has Equity Been Achieved?
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-04)
Equity was a core value in the Alma Ata declaration on PHC. However, the interpretation of equity varied and its application became difficult. Equity goals and objectives have often been rhetoric rather than practical. ...
International Trade and Health: Before and After CANCUN
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2003-12)
International trade is potentially critical in stimulating increased production, economic growth and poverty reduction. For this potential to be achieved, transparent and equitable international rules are necessary together ...
Listening to Voices That Matter: Placing Women’s Concerns at the Core of Health Programmes
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2003-12)
One of the hallmark achievements in the world today is the increasing recognition that the health of women is central in the development process. Many individuals, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), ...
Community Participation: An Abused Concept?
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-04)
One of the main principles of PHC was community participation. However, the interpretation and practices of community participation are so diverse that it became different things to different people. The lessons from the ...
Primary Health Care and Sector-Wide Approaches
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-04)
Primary Health Care and Sector-Wide Approaches to health development are among the major health sector reforms that have been undertaken in Uganda aimed at building a strong and cohesive health system. Inevitably, these ...
Patenting Drugs From 1st January 2005: Implications and Problems
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)
January the 1st 2005 is a very important deadline for the policy on patented drugs in developing countries: implementation of the agreement concerning paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration is going to be put into practice, ...
Autonomy of Apex Hospitals in Uganda: Too Little, Too Slow
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-04)
Hospital Autonomy, a sustained and purposeful change to improve the efficiency, equity and effectiveness of the health sector has been initiated to improve publicly-owned hospitals which, in many developing countries, ...
The Effort to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Uganda: Reaching for the Sky?
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-04)
At the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000, world leaders placed development at the heart of the global agenda by adopting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Government of Uganda is a signatory to ...