Our work in Uganda

Fighting HIV/AIDS, malnutrition and tuberculosis, assuring maternal and neonatal care and training local health workers: some of the goals of Doctors with Africa CUAMM.

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Doctors with Africa CUAMM has been working in Uganda since 1958: a long journey, that still goes on.

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The efforts of volunteers and local health providers are focused on combating the spread of HIV/AIDS, specifically vertical retroviral transmission from mother to newborn. The care of mothers and children is also the aim of the project “Mothers and children first”, started in 2012 at Aber hospital. Meanwhile, another important purpose of CUAMM’s projects is the training of nurses and obstetrician.

About 2015

2,714,200 · Inhabitants involved by the intervention

40,092 · Assisted deliveries

1,759 · C-sections performed

575 · HIV-positive pregnant women starting antiretroviral treatment

Where we work

In 2015, Doctors with Africa CUAMM is working in different geographic areas:

Karamoja region, promoting an overarching action to protect mother and child healthcare through the prevention of HIV/AIDS, the treatment of malnutrition and a service to diagnose tuberculosis. In the same region, CUAMM supports Matany hospital and its nursing school since it opened in 1970.

Oyam district, in Aber hospital, with the project “Mothers and children first”.

In the hospital of Aber, supporting the Ugandan Catholic Church in order to step up accessibility, equity an quality of care services.

At the dioceses of Arua and Nebbi, in West Nile, with the Ugandan NGO “Combrid-Friends of Disability”, actively providing care to the disabled, particularly the visually impaired.