Meetings and Workshops
Partnerships and Networks
Meetings at the national level
CHAIN has participated in several meetings and conferences aimed at increasing access to prevention, treatment, and care services including:
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- 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.
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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;
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