We have three key strands to our Uganda health partnership. These include maternal and neonatal health (with a particular focus on antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention control), paediatric cancer and critical care. Through a multidisciplinary team approach, the focus is on building staff skills and confidence, optimising practice and ultimately improving patient outcomes in all three areas.
Working to Improve Maternal and Neonatal Health
This project is developing maternal and neonatal health guidelines and improving antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention control to strengthen healthcare practices and processes that will reduce the number of women and babies who die from preventable complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
Paediatric Cancer
This project is improving care for children with cancer by supporting pathology and diagnostic pathways to speed up diagnosis, improving the safety of prescription and administration of chemotherapy, and strengthening aspects of patient education, care and support.
SCALE – Critical Care
This project developing critical care services in Uganda and building the confidence and knowledge of both Ugandan and UK critical care health providers through remote and in-person reciprocal learning, training and teaching.
What is a health partnership?
A long-term link between health institutions in high and low/middle-income countries, health partnerships facilitate the flow of ideas and expertise between the different healthcare systems to strengthen services and improve patient outcomes. Health partnerships achieve this through training programmes, sharing and learning, based on the healthcare needs of the overseas partner.
Interested in getting involved?
- Have an interest in global health?
- Interested in bi-directional sharing and learning with healthcare workers in Global South settings?
- Keen to participate? You can contribute your time and expertise remotely or in person.
Head to our becoming a member or becoming a partner pages to see how to get involved.
“The beauty of this collaboration is that it is not one partner imposing their will on the other partner, it’s like working together, identifying issues, and then still working together to find solutions to those issues. So it is a combination of existing ideas and exposure of ideas to how other people are working on the same issues.”
Dr Musa Sekikubo, Consultant Obstetrician and Uganda AMS IPC Partnership Lead
