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Uganda

1995 – Present

Kyaka II Refugee Settlement, Kyegegwa District, Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement, Kamwenge District

271,332

Total Beneficiaries in 2018

2,243,538

Total Funds Spent in 2018

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AHA started operation in Uganda being responsible for community-based health and sanitation services to all refugees’ settlers in Mongula, East Moyo District, bordering Sudan. The intervention in 1995 was aimed at filling the gap in the health sector as no medical facilities existed in Mongula. Simultaneously, immunization services, reproductive health, preventive activities, environmental hygiene and general health education were carried out.

In the early years of operation, AHA played a bigger role in infrastructure development. Many health points under AHA’s management were converted into permanent health posts. As the demand for enhanced access to health and nutrition services increased, AHA took on additional health posts at Kolididi, Mirieyi, Maaji. The work AHA did in the different health posts improved the health of the refugees and communities in the vicinity increasing the number of beneficiaries under the care of AHA.

Following AHA’s success in the health sector, in 1998, AHA was made solely responsible to deliver health services in the Adjumani district, by managing 23 health centres. Each of the 23 health centres provided communities with access to essential medical services – consultation and treatment – drug provision, laboratory testing, emergency response, reproductive health care, family planning, nutrition and therapeutic feeding and immunisation. Nutrition and health care played a key role in AHA’s work in Uganda.

In 2010, AHA moved its operations to South Western Uganda where it provided health and nutrition Services in Nakivale Refugee Settlement to new refugees from DRC. Since 2012, AHA’s programme moved its operations to two refugee camps Kyaka II and Rwamwanja and continued to provide its PHC services to refugees and host communities. With funds secured from the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration – US Department of State, AHA was also able to curb the gap of SGBV related issues in both the Kyaka II and Rwamwanja refugee settlements.
AHA operates its main projects within a framework of a tripartite agreement between the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) and UNHCR.

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Nutrition

Improving the nutritional well-being of the refugee populatio

AHA in addition to the normal UNHCR project, carries out two other projects that are funded by WFP which are aimed at improving the nutritional well-being of the refugee population in Rwamwanja and Kyaka II i.e. Supplementary Feeding Program and Food Basket Monitoring to ensure that refugees receive food entitlements according to the agreed standard distribution system and rations. In 2018, AHA provided both preventive and curative nutrition programmes including IYCF/e activities to children through the establishment of 3 breast feeding corners and mother baby pair counselling. Screened malnutritioned refugees in coordination with the VHTs. SFP, OTC and ITC programs were implemented for U5s with malnutrition

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AHA currently operates in two districts; Kyegegwa & Kamwenge Districts hosting Congolese refugees from DRC in the region, each providing communities with access to essential medical services. AHA has a collaborative relationship with the district health offices where it operates its projects. The scope of health services include; extensive health education through static and outreach posts, EPI, ANC and safe motherhood services, reproductive health, OPD and laboratory services, ART clinic and HIV /AIDS services including counselling and PEP, referral services. In 2018, AHA Uganda addressed the inadequate access of government primary health care services by providing services in a range of sectors to PoCs through 5 health centres and 12 health outposts. In collaboration with the Village Health Teams (VHTs), AHA strengthened surveillance for potential disease outbreak like Cholera and Ebola leading to a successful prevention of outbreaks. A total of 140,232 PoCs benefited from the wide range of health care services. The programme benefited both refugees and the host community

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