THETA Uganda – African Solutions For Better Health

OUR CORE PROGRAMS

Integrative Medicine Research (IMR)

THETA Under IMR Programme delivers services that include: integrated biomedical, traditional and complementary model clinic, clinical research for efficacy and safety of local herbal medicines, applied research on use of traditional and alternative therapies and dissemination of traditional medicine research

Community Health Systems Strengthening

Under Community Health Systems Strengthening programme, THETA delivers the following community health services: capacity building for community led HIV/AIDS prevention initiatives, maternal new-born and health (MNCH) services, Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) prevention and advocacy for health rights and equity. Community programmes will focus on strengthening existing community health systems and structures.

Training and Capacity Development Department

THETA Under TCD Programme has worked hard to establish an institute for indigenous health sciences, delivery of accredited short and long term training courses, technical assistance to district based traditional medicine programmes and documentation of indigenous traditional medicine knowledge.

ABOUT THETA

THETA is a Ugandan NGO dedicated to improving the health of Ugandans by promoting collaboration beween the African traditional and modern health sectors.

THETA has programmes in 10 districts of Uganda where it has been able to test and demonstrate the validity of its approach. The focus of the THETA method is to improve the health of rural Ugandan populations by involving healers through training in health education, provision of quality care and counselling, and initiating community support initiatives for vulnerable people such as women, orphans and persons living with AIDS.