Reaching Girls and Women with SRH services
Reaching Girls and Women with Quality Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV and AIDS Services
The project aims to improve the SRH&R of poor, marginalised women and girls by increasing their access to high-quality Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV services and enabling them to make informed choices regarding their health.
In this project our partner the Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau (UPMB) works at promoting safe motherhood practices, such as Prevention of HIV mother to child transmission, obstetric emergencies, post-abortion care, family planning, testing and treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, voluntary counselling and testing, and linkages with care, counselling, and youth-friendly health services. On top of awareness activities, this project also avails quality sexual and reproductive health services, by providing supplies and equipment, and training for health workers in counselling for post-abortion care, voluntary counselling and testing, youth-friendly health services and family planning. UPMB also advocates for the continued support of post-abortion care as part of a comprehensive package of maternal health services, and the importance of addressing the SRH needs of HIV-positive women and men.
The Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau (UPMB)
UPMB was formed in 1957 to coordinate the dissemination of government aid grants to missionary hospitals and is now a national umbrella organisation for faith-based organisations across Uganda, with 14 member hospitals and over 200 lower-level health units. It plays a strong role in the health sector, involved with policy formulation with the Ministry of Health, and engages in advocacy, capacity building, networking and identifying financial support for its member units. Its primary objective is to empower and support member units to build better health services for affected communities.