Uganda being one of the model countries for self-care, has had notable milestones, challenges and lessons that are worth documenting for the other countries to benchmark on for their own institutionalization.

The purpose of this report is to document and highlight the journey of self-care from inception, progress made, best practices, lessons and challenges attained in the implementation of self-care interventions in Uganda.

In 2019, the MOH through the Self-Care Expert Group developed the draft National Guideline on Self-Care Interventions for SRHR to institutionalize self-care in Uganda. The specific objectives of the guideline included; to guide the introduction of new self-care interventions, to guide the scale-up of self-care interventions, to establish and
operationalize a coordination mechanism for self-care (multi-stakeholder coordination, referrals, product, information), to facilitate the integration of self-care in the health care system (VHTs, IPCs, health promotion) and strengthen monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning for self-care.
The Self-Care Guideline was successfully piloted in Mukono district and created awareness on the need to institutionalize self-care in the country as one of the means to achieve Universal Health Coverage. Additionally, through the strategic leadership of the Ministry of Health and the technical expertise of the members of the Self-care
expert group, Uganda has registered significant policy reforms by incorporating Selfcare into Health policies and strategies among other achievements.