Health Uganda
A clinic with lights on at night
Eleven clinics in Karamoja kept losing vaccines to blackouts. The fix was solar panels, a fridge, and a stock list that phones ahead.
Health Active Uganda Since 2021
Clinic charge, Karamoja
Solar power, cold chains and twelve-month medicine stock for eleven rural clinics in Karamoja.
A rural clinic without power is a daytime clinic without vaccines. This program fits eleven clinics with solar arrays and vaccine fridges, then links each one to a regional store so that stock-outs are visible weeks before they happen.
The program pays for pharmacists to run the stock system and for motorbike couriers who move supplies between clinics. It is deliberately unglamorous: the indicator that matters is not ribbon-cuttings but whether a mother who walks twenty kilometres finds the clinic open and stocked.
- Support 42,000 clinical visits a year with reliable medicine stock
- Keep eleven clinics powered and cold-chained through every outage
- Deliver 95% of vaccines within the cold chain, door to door
- Hand the stock system to district pharmacists by 2027
Latest reported values against this year's targets. A value below target stays visible — it is never rounded up or hidden.
| Indicator | Value | Target | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical visits supported | 44,700 | 42,000 | |
| Facilities with 12-month stock cover | 86% | 85% | |
| Vaccines delivered within cold chain | 98% | 95% |
- Direct delivery58% · $394,400
- Local staff24% · $163,200
- Training8% · $54,400
- Logistics10% · $68,000
2025 budget: $680,000
What the budget covers
The split above is the approved 2025 budget. Restricted gifts to this program are spent within it, and variances above five percent are explained in the quarterly spending note.
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