| 31 March 2016
Reproductive Health Uganda
Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU) is an indigenous, voluntary, not-for-profit organisation. The association has long-standing experience and expertise providing integrated comprehensive SRHR information and services which include sexuality education, family planning (FP), HIV prevention, care and treatment, breast and cervical cancer screening, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) management, immunisation, etc. RHU is proud to be associated with pioneering family planning in Uganda. For more than 60 years RHU has been involved in SRHR service provision and advocacy programmes that have defined the SRHR landscape in the country. Annually RHU provides more than seven (7) million life-saving, affordable, accessible and quality SRHR information and services to the most vulnerable and underserved communities including young people, refugees, and those in hard to reach areas totalling more than 1.2 million people. RHU implements several programmes in humanitarian settings in up to ten (10) refugee settlements. This is possible through the 19 RHU owned clinics with youth centres, located in the different regions of the country on top of having a franchise clinics totally 60. And a large service delivery network of about 25 outreach teams and over 6,000 community resource persons, conducting over 1,000 outreaches annually. Our Vision: A Uganda where everyone’s SRHR are fulfilled and protected without discrimination Our Mission: To champion, provide and enable universal access to rights based SRHR information and services to vulnerable and underserved communities especially young people Our Values: Voluntarism; Rights Based, Integrity, Choice and Result Oriented RHU is held in high repute among partners. RHIU has previously chaired of the Uganda Family Planning Consortium - a platform that brings together more than 15 major family planning partners. We are the current deputy chair of the Coalition to End Maternal Mortality Due to Unsafe Abortion, we sit on many working groups in the ministries of health, gender and education. We lead a number of platforms that bring together different SRHR partners implementing specific advocacy interventions.
| 31 March 2016
Associação Para o Planeamento da Família
Associação para o Planeamento da Família – APF (Association for Family Planning) is an NGO, established in 1967 with health purposes, whose mission is to help people to make free and responsible sexual and reproductive choices and to promote positive parenting. APF develops activities around Portugal national territory through its six regional delegations. The Member Association teams engage more than 100 professionals and voluntaries from several domains of social intervention: health, education, community and youth intervention. APF’s history has been always linked to the fight for sexual and reproductive health and rights. Since its establishment, APF has played a leading role in matters concerning Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE), Safe Abortion, Prevention and Combat of Trafficking in Human Beings (THB), Early and Forced Marriages and Female Genital Mutilation. APF services target vulnerable people such as sex workers, drug users, migrants and ethnic minorities but also young people, families and professionals of several areas. The Member Association also promotes knowledge through investigation (diagnoses and new intervention strategies) and disseminates its results through their website, social networks, media and scientific events. Over the years, APF has been advocating in public policies concerning sexual and reproductive rights issues as human rights matters.