Exploring the Regulation of Task Sharing for
Access to Family Planning Services in Uganda
Volume 1 - Issue 3
Moses Mulumba*, Jacqueline Nassimbwa, Carole Sekimpi and Faith N Kyateeka
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- Center for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa
*Corresponding author:
Moses Mulumba, Center for Health, Human Rights and Development
Received: March 14, 2018; Published: May 29, 2018
DOI: 10.32474/LOJNHC.2018.01.000112
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Abstract
There is an acute shortage of Human Resources for Health in Uganda. While task sharing in the delivery of reproductive services
is one of the strategies to avert this crisis, it takes place in an unregulated environment. The consequent lack of legal protection for
health care providers poses a potential barrier to task sharing for both providers and the government. We show in this legal and
policy review that the approach is not new in the country and that it has provisions in some policy documents. We further show
the legal implications if it is rolled out in an unregulated environment and propose six options to guide regulation. These include
enforcing the Health Service Commission Act, utilizing the mandate of the Director General to authorize treatment, amending
the regulations of health professional regulatory bodies, developing regulation to support implementation of the acts for health
professionals, developing a full act of parliament, and enacting ordinances at the district level.
Abbrevations: HRH: Human Resources for Health; MoH: Ministry of Health; ART: Anti-Retroviral Therapy; EMTCT: Elimination of
Mother to Child Transmission; DG: Director General’s
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