Uganda Takes Major Steps to Professionalize Community Health Workforce
Until now, many of Uganda’s 180,000 community health workers have gone unaccounted for in the formal health system. Who are they? What services are they providing, and who trained them? The Uganda Ministry of Health is using a new registry—developed using IntraHealth International’s open source iHRIS software—to find out. The registry tracks critical personnel data that answer these questions, and its implementation is one of the first steps in a...