University of Calgary - Board of Governors

Published purpose

This project aims to improve the health and survival rates of pregnant women, newborns, and young children living in the Bushenyi and Rubirizi districts in southwest Uganda. It focuses on strengthening district health systems, improving health centres’ delivery of services, community programming, and sharing project results and lessons learned. The project is designed to improve access for approximately 340,000 people, including 40,000 pregnant women and over 74,000 children under five to basic health services at more than 30 health centres, and train over 180 health centre staff and over 4,200 community health workers in preventive and critical care. Activities include: upgrading health centres’ equipment; training community and health centre workers; encouraging early treatment for acute illness; and analyzing the project’s results and sharing the Bushenyi model through the media and meetings with government planners. The University of Calgary is working in partnership with the Mbarara University of Science and Technology and the Bushenyi district local government to implement this project. This project is part of Canada's Maternal, Newborn and Child Health commitment. The maximum CIDA contribution to this project includes $10,000 for monitoring purposes.