Exploring the Regulation of Task Sharing for Access to Family Planning Services in Uganda (LOJNHC) - Lupinepublishers
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.
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