Here attending Makerere University School of Public Health's COMONETH project stakeholders' meeting in Luuka District. #LocalGovernemt urged to start thinking of sustainability of the project activities

We sh'd not just end at counting maternal & newborn deaths. Let’s health facility managers, community leaders and households account for each death and prevent other preventable deaths. Community in which Mothers & Newborns Thrive #StakeholderMeeting Peter Waiswa HealthPolicy_Mak Makerere University School of Public Health

#Caesarean sections now possible at Kiyunga health centre in Eastern #Uganda b’se of a doctor and anaesthetist recruited by HealthPolicy_Mak’s Community in which Mothers & Newborns Thrive project. Local Gov’t should plan to retain them and recruit an Assistant DHO for MNCH. Peter Waiswa Makerere University School of Public Health MNCH Research

While at a SPEED4UHC seminar it emerged that #bodabodas cause lots of death on urban roads but political will needed for effective enforcement of traffic laws in Uganda Makerere University School of Public Health HealthPolicy_Mak @MakerereU

Learning that 50% of Caesarian sections end up with stillbirths at this year's RMNCAH Assembly organised by Ministry of Health- Uganda got me thinking: We need to strengthen and quicken referral services & improve resucitation skills. HealthPolicy_Mak Makerere University School of Public Health Makerere University College of Health Sciences

#Uganda's Minister  for Health Dr Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero says  says we must talk about  teenage pregnancy &provide teenagers with information about the dangers of  teenage pregnancy and  the risks from abortions. This was at the official opening of the #RMNCAH19 Assembly today HealthPolicy_Mak

As she opened this year's #RMNCAH19 Assembly today, Uganda's Health Minister Dr Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero emphasised the need to strengthen primary health care & good investment in communities  if we're to achieve universal health coverage. Ministry of Health- Uganda HealthPolicy_Mak SPEED4UHC MNCH Research

Health Minister Dr Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero asks districts to recruit basing on merit and not tribe, religion or blood relations. Recruiting unqualified people costs lives, she notes. She was opening the annual #RMNCAH19 Assembly. Ministry of Health- Uganda HealthPolicy_Mak Dr. Diana Atwine SPEED4UHC

Tonight I announced live on Facebook that we’re changing immigration rules to make it easier for scientists to live and work in the UK.

#SPARCchat Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho From Makerere University School of Public Health joining from Kampala

We shall be hosting a live chat from 6 pm to 7 pm EAT. Expect an influx of insightful tweets from #SPARCchat You are welcome to join the conversation focusing on The Whole of Society Approach to #COVID19 – The Role of the Private Sector in Uganda.

Hi there! Elizabeth from Uganda kampala, looking forward to the chat#SPARCchat

#SPARCchat Following for MOH's position on involving the private sector in the COVID-19 Response. This is an opportunity to move beyond PSE to private sector contracting

I agree it is an opportunity to contract the private sector even for services such as testing#SPARCchat

Demonstrates a lot of local ownership and interest and we need to see how expoit this kind of positive response

Great we need more of that kind of innovation #SPARCchat

yes so government should invest more in skilling the private sector to be able to respond to such epidemics . That would open the way for contracting with the private sector#SPARCchat