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What We Do

1. Health Literacy & Patient Safety

Health literacy and patient safety are at the core of CHAIN's work with the aim of empowering patients, families, and the community at large to take control of their health, make informed decisions, and ensure their safety when navigating the healthcare system. Major areas of focus include Hand hygiene, Medication safety, injection safety, clinical trial safety, Hospital Acquired Infections, and Maternal and Child safety.

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Demonstration on hand washing steps at Namulonge PSHand Hygiene in Schools & Communities

2. Access to quality care & support services

Access to quality care and support services is essential to promoting the overall well-being for all individuals. CHAIN has over the years worked with partners including; The AIDs Support Organisation (TASO), Uganda Health Marketing Group (UHMG), and the Uganda Alliance Patients’ Organisation (UAPO) to increase access to quality care and support services…[Read More]

  • Healthcare Services through Community Distribution Drug Point (CDDP), medical camps and outreaches.
  • Care coordination Linking patients to quality health care and support services.
  • Support to orphans and vulnerable children with services including; education, healthcare, and psychosocial support.

3. Partnerships and Networks

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 of resources and foster innovation through exchange of knowledge and experiences to increase impact in communities...[Read More]

4. Sustainable Livelihood Initiatives

In order to address the social determinants of health, CHAIN implements projects under sustainable livelihood initiatives to empower vulnerable populations to improve their quality of life and economic well-being in a way that is environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable…[Read More]

Events

WebinarMenstrual Hygiene Day (MHD)

Theme: Creating a world where every individual has access to safe and dignified menstrual hygiene management

May 28th

Organizers: World Health Organization (WHO)

In-PersonDIA 2024 Global Annual Meeting

CHAIN will be participating as a speaker in the following sessions:
– Behavioral and Educational Strategies for avoiding falsified Medicine Exposure (Tuesday, June 18th)
– Risk Minimization in the EU: New Guidance, New Collaboration (Wednesday, June 19th, 8:00am – 9:00am)

June 16th – 20th, SanDiego, California

Organizers: Drug Information Association (DIA)

ConferenceInnovations In Tuberculosis

July 3rd – 4th, Kampala, Uganda

Organizers: Academy Medical Education (AME)

The 2nd World Patients Conference

19th-20th October 2024

Marriott Hotel Crystal Towers, Cape Town – South Africa

The aim of this conference is to elevate the voice of patients through discussion and dialogue where patients and patient advocates, representing all regions of the world, share insights and brainstorm on most sought-after topics in the domains of patient safety, patient and family engagement, and prevalent trends in the modern healthcare.

World Patient Safety Day 2024

Theme: Improving diagnosis for patient safety and slogan: is: “Get it right, make it safe!”, highlighting the critical importance of correct and timely diagnosis in ensuring patient safety and improving health outcomes

Organizers: World Health Organization (WHO)

WPSD 2024 Objectives
  • Raise global awareness of errors in diagnosis contributing to patient harm and emphasize the pivotal role of correct, timely and safe diagnosis in improving patient safety.
  • Give prominence to diagnostic safety in patient safety policy and clinical practice at all levels of health care, aligned with the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030.
  • Foster collaboration among policy-makers, health care leaders, health workers, patient organizations, and other stakeholders in advancing correct, timely and safe diagnosis.
  • Empower patients and families to actively engage with health workers and health care leaders to improve diagnostic processes.

Community Health And Information Network (CHAIN) and the Uganda Alliance of Patients Organizations (UAPO), the World Patient Alliance (WPA), Rotary Club of Kiwenda, Uganda Insurers Association (UIA), Infectious Disease Institute (IDI) with Ministry of Health and National Drug  Authority  will again join the rest of the world to commemorate the World Patient Safety Day 2024 Namulonge Health Center III field

VirtualInnovation in Healthcare Annual Forum

October 2nd & 3rd, 2024

Location: Duke University in DC (1201 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20004, US) or anywhere virtually

Organizers: Innovations in Healthcare (IiH) hosted by Duke University

VirtualGHIG side event at the IiH Annual Forum

Organizers: Innovations in Healthcare (IiH)

October 2nd, 2024

CommemorationWorld Patient Safety Day (WPSD)

September 17th

Organizers: World Health Organization (WHO)

Malaria Project

With support from the Pfizer Foundation and Global Health Innovation Grants CHAIN is implementing a one-year project on strengthening community-based care systems and primary healthcare systems for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Malaria in Uganda-Luwero District

Financial literacy training in partnership with Melbourne Microfinance Initiative (MMI)

To enable low-income households fund the education of children and increase knowledge on financial literacy to enable them live an improved quality life.

CHAIN'S AMBASSADORSThe Women & Youth Project

Every Young person has a great potential awaiting to be unlocked. Given the right support environment and mentorship not even the sky can be a limit to what they can become and achieve. This was an experience I learnt working at Community Health And Information Network(CHAIN) with young people from very vulnerable backgrounds. The small things we usually take for granted like having a ball they can kick, a book and pen, clean water to drink and one meal day means a lot to these young people.

The young people were always hungry for someone to say I believe in you and you can actually make it regardless of your background. Working with CHAIN young people did bring out the great potential in me as I got lot of inspiration from the young lads chasing for their dreams regardless of the hardships they encountered.

I am still in touch with now grown up adults doing business and running their own family life. And if it wasn't for the opportunity and supporting environment CHAIN provided these young men then, I don't think we would have anything to write home about their lives. I encourage all of us to continue supporting a child through education sponsorship or mentorship or donation of any educational materials towards the CHAIN resource center.

Dorcas Amoding
Advocacy and Information Officer
Handled: The Youth Project
2010-2016
Irene Birungi
Project Officer
Handled: The Women Project
2010-2016

Keeping up with the average standards of living is a dream to many families. Many can only afford one meal a day, cannot take their children to school and cannot also afford the basic needs for their families. Women often prove to be strong and ingenious at coping with difficulties and they contribute a positive role in their families when they are supported. It was a great opportunity working with women from very low settings as they were focused towards achieving their dreams and have control of their situations.

The women project aimed at supporting families with Startup capital for small businesses in form of loans in order for them to afford the basic needs for their families in the long run. The project also targeted organized women groups who were given energy saving ovens for bakery businesses still on a loan basis. The loan basis enabled the women to have ownership of their business because after the loan completion it belonged entirely to them and secondly, the money that was brought back supported more women who were in need.

A number of success stories were recorded from the women who initially could not support their families and now they were able to feed and take their children to school and also start up other small businesses in the profits they made. They were so grateful to CHAIN for enabling them live the dream they always imagined was impossible.

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