I read with interest an article in The Observer last week entitled, “USAID Maternal Health Project Exposes Flaws In Free Health Care” where it states that the “United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has recommended that the government drops the public free healthcare system in favor of mechanisms that allow the low-income earners and the informal sector pool resources to service their health bills.”

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Uganda Should Learn from the Lesotho Experience Before Implementing the Public Private Partnership (PPP) for the International Specialised Hospital of Uganda (ISHU) at Lubowa. (Article published in Daily Monitor, 27th March 2019).

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The majority of Ugandans can not afford services at Mulago Women's Hospital. Maternal and child mortality will continue being a big challenge if the Government doesn't take deliberate steps to ensure affordability of the hospital. 

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Despite the country’s focus on universal health coverage, ISER’s research found insufficient attention has been given to hard to reach areas such as Amudat District in Karamoja region as a whole.

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While presenting the findings of the report in Kampala last week, ISER programmes director Angella Nabwowe Kasule said they found out that the 58 per cent of the respondents said their village water user committees were non-functional and 80 per cent of those interviewed on health service delivery revealed they have not accessed any meetings of HUMCs.

Link: http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Citizens-not-fully-involved-service-delivery-report/688334-4676494-1338dg7/index.html

Source: Daily Monitor

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The study conducted by the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) in six districts revealed that lack of access to information is preventing citizens from participating in the processes of providing health, water and educational services, hindering high quality services delivery.

Link: https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1481646/dysfunctional-health-centres-blamed-citizens-ignorance

Source: New Vision

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The 2017 study conducted by the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights [ISER], a non-governmental organisation, launched recently on Sigulu Islands found that access to basic healthcare remains a big challenge.

Link:http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Sigulu-Island-residents-struggle-health-services-costs/688334-4538276-14j1qhoz/index.html

Source: Daily Monitor

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Management of Bridge Schools (formerly Bridge International Academies) has embarked on an aggressive public and social media campaign aimed at hoodwinking unsuspecting parents parents about the status of the 63 Bridge Schools in Uganda.

Link: https://ugandamediacentreblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/06/press-release-bridge-schools-are-unlicensed-educationbeforeprofit/

Source: Uganda Media Centre

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The ministry of education has said it has not yet licensed the Bridge Schools "because they have not yet met the requirements to merit being licensed to operate in Uganda".

Link: https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1470628/bridge-schools-authorised-operate-ministry

Source: New Vision

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 According to ISER Program Officer Cynthia Nona Tamale, electroconvulsive therapy is an out-dated method which has been condemned by world, including African states.

 Link: http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Parliament-electroconvulsive-therapy-Mental-Health-Bill/688334-4297548-y04r3xz/index.html

Source: Daily Monitor

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Inaugural Statement by the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) at the 30th  Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC)
06 -16 December 2017, Khartoum, Sudan

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As we celebrate 30 years of the Commission, African states should promote and protect Economic and Social rights and not regard them as mere development goals. African States continue to lag behind in realization of Economic and Social rights, particularly for vulnerable groups.

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