Financing for essential medicines must be increased

Through the years, Uganda’s overall resource envelope has grown; from about 5% from 7,552 billion in 2010/2011 to 8,004.1 billion for the year 2011/2012. However, budgetary allocations for the majority of the sectors including health have not changed from last financial year.

In fact, the Health Sector Budget Framework paper indicates that the health budget will remain at 660 billion in 2011/2012. Nevertheless, the Ministry of Health internally increased the budgetary allocation for

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