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Partnerships and Networks

Introduction

CHAIN acknowledges that building, strengthening, and maintaining partnerships and networks is crucial to developing and delivering quality services to communities. These partnerships and networks facilitate collaboration among key stakeholders, leveraging resources and fostering innovation through the exchange of knowledge and experiences to increase impact in communities.

Over the years CHAIN has worked with various stakeholders at community, national, and international levels and these have included among others; the Ministry of Health, Patient organizations, Academia, Research institutions, Regulatory Authorities, supply chain organizations, the pharmaceutical Industry, Healthcare service providers, and professionals.

CHAIN works with different partners to implement activities under different programs and these include among others; Global Orphans Assistance Fund (GOAF), MCULSKY Health Force (MHF), Pfizer, World Patient Alliance(WPA), Uganda Insurers Association (UIA), Medical Access Uganda Limited, Wide Spectrum, Infectious Disease Institute (IDI), Academy for Health Innovation Uganda, Members of the Uganda Alliance of patients organizations, Melbourne Microfinance Initiative (MMI)- Melbourne University, Rotary Club Kiwenda and E-C Club Ntinda, Schools and Health facilities at primary healthcare level.

Meetings at The National Level

The Peer Support Intervention for People Living with HIV to improve the reporting of drug-related side effects to the National Pharmaco-vigilance Center

Launch of HIV-free children by 2016 at Serena Hotel by NACWOLA on 24th April 2013.

CSOs meeting on national Coordination and introduction of National score card for HIV & AIDS response project at Hotel Africana by UNASO, June 2013

Coalition to stop maternal mortality in Uganda meeting at Imperial Royale Hotel by CEHURD, World Vision and White Ribbon Alliance, Aug. 2013,

Sexual Reproductive Health meeting at Imperial Royale Hotel by UNASO and RHU, Dec. 2013,

Breakfast meeting on Safe Male Circumcision (SMC) at Hotel Africana by UNASO, Dec. 2013

Non-communicable diseases (NCD) conference organized by UWOCASO, Nov. 2013.

Meetings at The International Level

Steering committee member on a WHO–based tropical disease research program (TDR) focusing on emerging diseases: Implementation Research for the control of diseases of poverty; strengthening the evidence base for the access and delivery of new and improved tools, strategies, and interventions. 2011

Member of the European Commission’s DG Enterprise and Industry working group on “Local Capacity Building” in the framework of the Platform “Access to Medicines in Developing Countries with a Focus on Africa” (which is part of the initiative “Process on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Field of Pharmaceuticals)-2013

Attended the Men Engage Africa symposium conference in Johannesburg, South Africa aimed at strengthening the capacity of civil society and government to work with men and boys on gender-based violence, 5th-9th October 2009

The World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva Switzerland and engaged ministers of health to promote patient-centered healthcare, in 2013.

Brussels Africa meeting organized by EU and pharma- EU-Africa Pharma B2B Forum on 16 September 2013 in Brussels; Public-Private Collaborations and the engagement of the actors.

WHO AFRO Committee meeting in Brazzaville; Participated in the Sixty-third session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo 2–6, September 2013.

Participated as a Governing Board Member of The International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations (IAPO). 2006-2013

The 2nd International Health Literacy Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, was organized by the Asian Health Literacy Association (AHLA) and presented an award-winning poster presentation at the conference, in 2014.

Salzburg Seminar – Australia;
Salzburg Seminar session 622 – on moving measurement into action: Designing Global Principles for Measuring Patient Safety 2019

2nd Global ministerial summit on patient safety in Bonn, 2017:
Engaging patient’s family and community for safer and higher quality care – Experiences from Uganda.

Attended a round table discussion on global health organized by Pfizer in Washington DC, USA on 22 May 2018.

World Health Assembly – IGWG: to discuss ways to foster innovation, build capacity, and improve access to health products to achieve better health outcomes in developing countries;

EU- Africa Pharma Business to Business; Forum Social Forum 2015: Expert consultation on access to medicines as a fundamental component of the right to health;