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Current investments in Uganda
The ELMA Foundation
HEALTH WORKFORCE
General support to an organization focused on compensating and supporting digitally enabled community health workers and strengthening community health systems to improve healthcare for mothers and children
Project support to scale a medical simulation pre-service training program in eight medical and nurse training institutions, and to improve newborn survival through facility-based training and deployment of appropriate medical technology
Project support to expand delivery of competency‐based nursing/midwifery education, and increase production of enrolled nurses, midwives, and anesthetic officers in Karamoja and Lango regions
Project support to institutionalize competency-based clinical education to improve the quality of emergency care and maternal, newborn, and child health pre-service training, and to launch new postgraduate programs in midwifery and emergency care
MATERNAL AND NEWBORN HEALTH
Project support to improve the care and outcomes of small and sick newborns through in‐service training and mentorship of health workers in high‐volume health facilities in the greater Masaka region
Project support to improve the care and outcomes of small and sick newborns through in‐service training and mentorship of health workers in high‐volume health facilities in the mid-central region
Project support to improve the care and outcomes of small and sick newborns through in‐service training and mentorship of health workers in high‐volume health facilities in Acholi region
Project support to improve the care and outcomes of small and sick newborns through in‐service training and mentorship of health workers in high‐volume health facilities in Karamoja and Lango regions
Project support to institutionalize newborn care approaches and implement a proven intervention package for small and sick newborns in eight districts in mid-western Uganda
EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
General support to an organization that coordinates civil society stakeholders and strengthens the capacity of key government entities to develop and implement policies and guidelines for the ECD sector
Project support to improve quality, consistency, and coverage of parenting programs by institutionalizing a technical training resource hub and expanding the evidence-based Parenting for Respectability program to five districts
Project support to improve access to quality ECD services for 7,000 children, strengthen parent and caregiver knowledge and skills, and replicate best practices of a community-based ECD model
General support for an organization focused on advancing the quality of ECD teacher education
AIDS-FREE
Project support to strengthen sub-national level clinical, laboratory, and leadership capacity to implement the integrated HIV/AIDS service framework, and enhance health workers’ clinical practices to promote greater efficiency
Project support to enhance sub-national capacity to implement the integrated HIV service framework and strengthen health workers' clinical practices through in-service training and mentorship
Project support to increase demand for and uptake of adolescent HIV and sexual and reproductive health services, with a particular focus on pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), across two regions
Project support to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Health and strengthen primary health care structures for the delivery of integrated HIV prevention and care services in Kampala
Project support to sustain essential HIV services and retain 155,484 people living with HIV in care through technical support and financial assistance to five high-burden districts in Rwenzori and Bunyoro regions
NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES
Project support to test and treat approximately 11,000 people suffering from visceral leishmaniasis per year
PRIVATE SECTOR SOLUTIONS
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES
The ELMA Relief Foundation
Project support to strengthen national and sub-national Ebola response by operationalizing laboratory and surveillance systems, training health workers, and strengthening infection prevention and control activities in seven high-risk districts
Project support to sustain essential maternal and newborn services uptake through technical support and financial assistance to eight districts in Acholi region
Project support to provide post discharge follow-up to at-risk small and sick newborns and provide essential maternal and newborn medical supplies in the greater Masaka region
Project support to sustain essential maternal and newborn services uptake through technical support and financial assistance to nine districts in Karamoja region
The ELMA Growth Foundation
The ELMA Vaccines & Immunization Foundation
Project support to ensure approximately 50,000 children start or catch up on their immunization schedules, and to generate research and strategies to immunize zero-dose and under-immunized children
