In 2024
CUAMM’s work in Uganda remained constant and firmly anchored on its pillars. The training of health workers remained at the forefront, with the continuation of our project in Lango and Karamoja to improve the availability, distribution, knowledge and skills of healthcare workers with the goal of improving the provision of high-quality health services.
As in previous years, maternal and child health remained a priority in all the regions we work in, with different projects to support hospitals and peripheral structures and the transportation of patients to health facilities, emphasizing the importance of assisted deliveries. In Karamoja, our interventions to control tuberculosis and malaria and our support to Matany Hospital continued. More specifically, 2024 marked an important milestone for this facility, with the launch of neonatal intensive care. Moreover, a hostel to host doctors-intraining was built. We bolstered our integrated reproductive health and community approach activities thanks to an integrated system for patient management. Our support for the blood bank in Moroto remained as important as ever. CUAMM also continued its integrated interventions in the hygiene-sanitation and zootechnic-veterinary fields to combat potential epidemic-level diseases, operating with a One Health approach within the national program. This included an important infection monitoring and prevention aspect that not only involved the CUAMM team but also local authorities and the management of Matany and Moroto Hospitals.
As part of the “Mothers and Children First” program, we proceeded with our support of Aber Hospital and the surrounding health network in Oyam District. Our adolescent health activties continued and expanded in terms of the services offered (on health, school and community levels) and the number of young women reached. In 2024, CUAMM concluded its work to fight malaria in Kole and Oyam Districts, focused primarily on mothers, pregnant women and children under the age of five, entailing activities at the hospital and in schools, communities, and health centers.
2024 also saw much activity in terms of the operational research program, in Karamoja on nutrition, tuberculosis, blood transfusions and neonatal health; meanwhile, the program in Oyam and Kole on malaria, especially during pregnancy, was concluded. Lastly, in the West Nile region, the emergency project which focused on refugees in the Imvepi camp and nearby host communities continued. This inclusive initiative is aimed at reinforcing health services and hygiene in refugee and host communities.
OUR HISTORY IN UGANDA
1958
First doctor sent to hospital in Angal.
1979
Bilateral health cooperation agreement between Italy and Uganda: CUAMM doctors begin working inside Ugandan health system.
1990s
Hospital in Arua rebuilt and hospitals in Maracha, Angal, Aber and Matany rehabilitated.
2012
“Mothers and Children First” program begun.
2016
“Mothers and Children First: The First 1,000 Days” (the period from conception through a baby’s 2nd birthday) program begun.
2017
CUAMM returns to West Nile to support response to South Sudanese refugee crisis.
2018
Intervention launched throughout Lango sub-region.
2019
Project begun in support of eye health in Arua District.
2022
Launch of the third phase of the “Mothers and Children First” program: “People and Skills”.
