Communities

Southwest Uganda

Uganda has been called the “Pearl of Africa” for its lush, rolling green hills. Sadly, civil war in the 1970s and 1980s was followed by the overwhelming AIDS epidemic. Uganda is still trying to recover from this history.

Ngonzi Nsa (Only Love) Initiative

African Mission Healthcare has worked in Uganda since its founding, primarily in partnership with the Banyatereza Sisters, an indigenous order of committed nuns who run health and educational institutions. African Mission Healthcare has added other partners from the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau health system.

In 2021, Dr. Sister Priscilla Busingye, Uganda’s leading urogynecologist, became the first African and the first woman to receive the African Mission Healthcare Gerson L’Chaim Prize for Outstanding Christian Medical Missionary Service. Dr. Busingye, known as “the nun who helps women,” cast a vision for a maternal health center of excellence. This dream has become the Ngonzi Nsa (Only Love) Initiative, a network of four hospitals in southwestern Uganda dedicated to reducing maternal mortality.

Our village health program provides subsidized primary care to individuals in rural Uganda

Health workers trained (including surgeons, ob-gyns, nurses, and medical support personnel)

Reduction in C-section mortality at NNI sites compared to the African average

Reduction in neonatal mortality at NNI sites compared to the East African average

Lifetime risk of a Ugandan woman dying in childbirth

Ugandan women living with injuries from unsafe births

Rural Ugandan women who need a C-section but do not get one

Treating Patients Today

How African Mission Healthcare is helping treat patients in Uganda:

Sponsored over 7,000 life-changing surgeries in Uganda, including general and gynecological procedures.
Provided subsidized primary care to nearly 10,000 individuals in rural Uganda through our innovative village health program.

Training Health Workers for Tomorrow

How African Mission Healthcare is helping train health workers in Uganda:

Trained 163 health workers, including surgeons, ob-gyns, nurses, and medical support personnel.
Coached two hospital teams in Uganda to deliver simulation training focused on obstetrical emergencies (in collaboration with Kenyan partner Kijabe Hospital).
Built internship houses at Ibanda and Rwibaale hospitals to allow each hospital to train young doctors in a functional environment.
Constructed faculty housing at Nyakibale Hospital.

Transforming Health Care in Southwest Uganda

How African Mission Healthcare is helping transform Southwest Uganda

Transformed Rwibaale Hospital into a maternal health center of excellence (in partnership with the Banyatereza Sisters).
Improved power, water, a mortuary, staff and trainee housing, a pediatric ward, and a 45-bed maternity hospital.
Upgraded the operating rooms at two hospitals (and planned upgrades for two more hospitals).

Every community is unique.

We know each community we serve has its own culture and context, and the people there have unique needs. Therefore, we come alongside established institutions already immersed in local communities, rolling up our sleeves to help transform medical care for the long-term.

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