| Abstract |
The Uganda Ministry of Health implemented a Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) and Data Quality Review (DQR) in January 2018. The aim of the SARA 2018 was to generate reliable information on health services availability and readiness to support efforts to improve service delivery in the country. The focus of the SARA 2018 was on the assessment of availability and ability of health care facilities to provide essential services including family planning, child health services, basic and comprehensive obstetric care, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and noncommunicable diseases.
The SARA 2018 covered 215 facilities across the country.
This report covers the following categories of indicators:
1. General service availability
• Health infrastructure density
• Health workforce density
• Service utilization
2. General service readiness
• Basic amenities
• Basic equipment
• Standard precautions for infection prevention
• Diagnostic capacity
• Essential medicines
3. Service specific availability and readiness
• Family planning
• Antenatal care
• Basic obstetric care
• Comprehensive obstetric care
• Child immunization
• Preventive and curative services for children under five years of age
• Adolescent health
• Maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (MNCAH)
• Malaria
• Tuberculosis
• HIV and antiretroviral therapy (ART)
• Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT)
• Sexually-transmitted infections
• Non-communicable diseases
• Surgical services
• Blood transfusion
• Advanced diagnostic
• High level diagnostic equipment
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