UGANDA

Village Network Africa

by Anita Boling,Director

Using the Africa AHEAD program materials, Village Network Africa (ViNA) trained 28 Community Health Club (CHC) volunteer leaders in the rural Kibaale district in Uganda in 2009. The leaders were elected by residents from 14 villages. Jihan Mandilawi, MPH and Anita Boling, RN, MSN, PhD trained the health leaders and David Kyamanywa, [...]

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Community Health Club Approach as a Strategy to Empower Community Action to Improve Hygiene and Sanitation

Full paper presented during the seminar

Otai John Justin – COMMUNITY HEALTH CLUB PRESENTATION – MOSHI – NOV.2007.pdf (1.08 MB)

In 2003 -4, The Director Of Africa AHEAD first started CHCs in the IDP Camps in Gulu, [...]

Uganda IDP Case Study – pdf download

In 2005 Community Health Clubs were started in IDP Camps in Northern Uganda, where numerous NGOs had been trying to introduce safer sanitation for the past 18 years in one of the worst ongoing conflicts in Africa. Inspite of much sceptism that nothing could be done to aleviate this chronic public health situation, the 120 [...]

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COMMUNITY HEALTH CLUB PROJECTS 1. CARE International (funded by Gates Foundation)

In 2003, Africa AHEAD provided training for 23 facilitators from HIDO, a local NGO and a PHAST Toolkit was developed specifically for the IDP Camps. Trainers were then posted into 15 Internally [...]

Health Integrated Development Organization

HIDO is an indigenous NGO based in Gulu District in Northern Uganda . It was formed in 2004 by Ugandan medical practitioners and is comprised of an energetic group of recently qualified clinicians and health assistants. It is dedicated to serve internally displaced people caused by the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), which for the past [...]

Rapid Sanitation Uptake in IDP Camps of Northern Uganda

Okot, P., Kwame, V., & Waterkeyn, J. (2005). Rapid Sanitation Uptake in the Internally Displaced People Camps of Northern Uganda through Community Health Clubs. Kampala. 31st WEDC Conference.

Abstract: When thousands of people are forced to live in poor living conditions in a closely confined area the immediate health risk is the lack of sanitation [...]