Our work
Transforming national healthcare
At Nama Health Impact, we believe community health workers are the foundation for strong healthcare in Uganda. Our mission is to professionalise and integrate community health workers to transform national healthcare systems to achieve universal health coverage for all.
Primary healthcare
Health service delivery
Medical care
From basic curative services for malaria and pneumonia in children under five to nutritional services, antenatal and postnatal care, family planning and mental health services, our community health workers deliver comprehensive medical care to the communities we serve in Mukono and Buikwe districts in Central Uganda.
Emergency services
Access to emergency services is an essential component of the human right to health. Unfortunately, it is not a reality for most families in our community. We have collaborated with local boda (motorcycle taxi) riders to train and equip our community health workers with motorcycles to transport women in labour to the nearest medical facilities in the safest and fastest way possible. Our dedicated mobility team (The Pink Riders) has transported pregnant women from across Mukono District to medical facilities and significantly reduced maternal mortality.
Kangaroo mother care
This is an evidence-based approach to newborn care that teaches mothers to maintain continuous skin-to-skin contact, provide exclusive breastfeeding, and involve the family in caring for the newborn. We have trained 370 mothers with a 98% success rate over a 28-day home-based monitoring cycle and plan to extend this to other districts, such as Buikwe in Central Uganda. Through this program, we are bridging the gap between facility-based newborn care and sustained household-level support to ensure child survival.
Community health workers
In 2020, Nama Health Impact launched the community health workers (CHWs)Program, which assessed, trained, supplied, and incentivised 100 CHWs to serve in remote areas of Uganda. This program had a significant impact, with over 350,000 households visited, making community-driven healthcare a reality. Community health workers deliver healthcare to the community and strengthen local health systems. They are skilled, salaried, supervised and supplied with digital health surveillance systems and equipped with community-based mental health interventions that ensure they deliver quality maternal-child healthcare.
Psychosocial counselling
Through the CommCare Connect project, Nama Health Impact empowered CHWs in Nama sub-county, Central Uganda, to use smartphones for group interpersonal therapy (IPT-G). This enabled them to offer vital psychosocial counselling to women affected by depression and anxiety at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Research
At Nama Health Impact, we leverage research and data to drive universal health coverage by optimising primary healthcare in our communities. We regularly assess and refine our health programs to identify best practices and provide evidence-based policy recommendations.
Policy & Advocacy
We advocate for and support community health workers to create an enabling environment that allows them to serve their communities effectively. We push for policy change to ensure the integration and recognition of community health workers in the healthcare workforce.
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