Category: Charities,Health and Well-being,HIV / AIDS Testing, Medical Care & Health Charities (NGOs),NGOs & Community,Non Government Organisations (NGOs),Public Health Promotion

Posted on: July 4, 2011

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Medical Teams International (MTI)- Our Work in Uganda.
The goal of MTI’s programs in Uganda is to improve the health status of resettling communities. The methodology employed by MTI to achieve this goal is three fold and includes increasing access to primary health care services for members of displaced and resettling communities in the sub‐counties of Apala, Okwang, Purunga, and Kilak through strengthening maternal child health programs, investigating and responding to outbreaks in targeted sub counties and other areas requested as capacity permits, and finally improving access to HIV prevention and treatment services including social mobilization, education, VCT, preventing mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDs, and youth friendly services. MTI executes its programming in many parts of Uganda such as Apala, Ogur, Okwang, Erute North, Otuke, and Moroto sub counties in the Lira District and Puranga and Kilak sub counties in the Pader District. The sectors touched by MTI’s work in Uganda included disaster and emergency relief, health care, and HIV/AIDS. MTI receives funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF, and private donors. In terms of the scale of MTI’s program, plans include serving 200,000 resettling community members, with an annual program budget of $670,000. MTI works with the local Ministry of Health, USAID, UNICEF, and other NGOs in the health sector. MTI is becoming increasingly concerned about the access to quality medications for the population, especially for HIV/AIDS. In addition, disease outbreaks (like Hepatitis E) threaten the people’s health and livelihoods.


Contact:
Medical Teams International Uganda
Lira, Uganda.
Email: info@medicalteams.org
Website: http://www.medicalteams.org