Improving maternal health and encouraging expectant women to deliver at a health facility is a priority for the Millennium Villages Project (MVP). Several interventions are being implemented to boost institutional delivery. In Ruhiira, Uganda, only 8% of pregnant women delivered in a facility when the project first started. This number has gone up to 89%. Still, the team wanted . . . [more]
In 2008, the Uganda ministry of health entered a partnership with JHPIEGO, an affiliate of John Hopkins University, and the General Electric (GE) Foundation to improve infection prevention practices in 12 health facilities in Isingiro district where Ruhiira Millennium Village is located.
An external evaluation commissioned by the partners revealed that the best performers, after two years . . . [more]
A high level Korean delegation visited the Millennium Village of Ruhiira, Uganda, on December 9, to witness achievements made possible by the partnership between the Government of Korea and Millennium Promise.
Established in November 2008, this partnership known as the Korean Millennium Villages Project (MVP) is a five-year, $8 million commitment to support a pilot development program in Uganda and Tanzania. The . . . [more]
For the first time ever, more than 35 Ethiopian Parliamentarians took a two-week long tour in Kenya and Uganda in October 2009 to learn more about their counterparts’ efforts towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the region.
The visit, coordinated by the MDG Centre, East and Southern Africa, and UNDP Ethiopia, . . . [more]
General Electric (GE), the multi-national American technology and services conglomerate, has entered into a partnership with the Millennium Villages project (MVP) in Ruhiira, as a sign of its commitment to supporting Uganda to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The company has donated medical equipment worth over $58,000 to the Uganda cluster. An assortment . . . [more]
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