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Social Health Insurance: The Issue Arises Again

It has been almost two years since UHCA organised a workshop on the issue of social health insurance. The concept is extraordinarily complex, both technically and politically, and countries as diverse as the United States and Uganda have found it difficult to master.

Perhaps it should come as no surprise, then, that the Ugandan government has been unable to overcome political opposition to the plan it proposed at that UHCA workshop in April 2008. But the Government has not given up. Here are some resources that provide useful background on the issue.

On 25 February, Evelyn Lirri reported in the Daily Monitor that the government is starting over on the issue. It's earlier proposal would have limited insurance coverage initially to civil servants and expanded it only gradually to cover the whole society after 15 years. But, Lirri reported, the new proposal will seek to provide coverage at the outset to people in the informal sector.

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Water and Sanitation

Chronic Underfunding Still Plagues Uganda’s Water and Sanitation

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According to the World Bank,  Uganda’s national budget allocation for water and sanitation fell from almost 5% in 2004/2005 to just 1.8% currently. This is despite the fact that Uganda is lagging behind in the race to meet the seventh millenium development goal on halving the number of people without sustainable access to safe water and basic sanitation by 2015.

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Health in West Nile

Health in West Nile

Nestled in the northwest corner of Uganda and bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo and Southern Sudan, Uganda’s West Nile region has plenty of health concerns, from cholera and a poorly-understood spread of plague to growing public concern about diabetes and the continuing curse of HIV/AIDS. On 9-13 November 2009, the International Centre for Journalists and UHCA conducted a week-long training workshop for journalists from the region. A unique collaboration between journalists and local health officials, the program was organized by Stephen Dradenya, a reporter for Arua One radio and the New Vision. It was led by Knight International Journalism Fellow Christopher Conte and journalists Pius Sawa of Radio Sapientia and Lydia Namubiru of Saturday Vision. And it featured seven local health officials as trainers.

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