| Abstract |
The Ministry of Health of Uganda implemented a national Service Availability and Readiness Assessments (SARA) in June
2013. The assessment aimed to measure progress and to serve as a primary data source for the analytical report prepared for midterm review of the Uganda Health Sector Strategic and Investment Plan (HSSIP). The objective of the survey was to generate reliable and regular information on service delivery including service availability, such as the availability of key human and infrastructure resources, and on the readiness of health facilities to provide basic health-care interventions relating to family planning, child health services, basic and comprehensive obstetric care, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and noncommunicable diseases.
The SARA 2013 covered 209 facilities in 10 districts.
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
• Essential medicines and commodities
• Maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (MNCAH)
• Malaria services
• Tuberculosis
• HIV counseling and testing
• HIV/AIDS care and support
• HIV/AIDS Antiretroviral (ART)
• Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT)
• Sexually-transmitted infections
• Communicable diseases
• Diabetes
• Cardiovascular disease services
• Chronic respiratory disease management
• Non-communicable diseases
• Basic surgical services
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