[ with reference to HIFA message 18 March: https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/who-africa-where-does-cancer-care-stand... ]
Majority are diagonise at stage four and majority last six months to five years depending on their financial status. Patients in Uganda mainly access care through Mulago National Referral Hospital making it extremely difficult for people in rural areas to access treatment and care. Treatment and care becomes inaccessible physically and financially. Palliative care is mainly provided by mission hospitals and NGO in the rural setting but very few people are aware of these services. Uganda therefore needs to address cancer treatment at across the continuum of care, that awareness and education, cancer screening and testing/diagnosis, treatment and palliative care.
HIFA profile: Immaculate Nakityo Lwanga is a Project Manager/Administrator at Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Uganda. She is interested in working with projects/programmes on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, Health Systems Strengthening, socio-economic empowerment for vulnerable populations, Gender and women and Orphans and other Vulnerable children. Such programmes may focus on awareness and education, capacity building, direct service delivery and/or research. She is a member of the HIFA mHEALTH-INNOVATE working group, which is supporting the HIFA members to explore the question: What can we learn from health workers' informal use of mobile phones?
https://www.hifa.org/support/members/immaculate-nakityo
https://www.hifa.org/projects/mhealth-innovate-what-can-we-learn-health-...
immacn AT yahoo.com
