Who We Are

About Medical Services and Reproductive Health (MEDREP) Uganda

Medical Services and Reproductive Health Uganda MEDREP-U is a Facility and Non-facility Based Private Not for Profit (PNFP) body corporate entity established in 2011 and legally registered in as a Non-Governmental Organization. The main objective of the organization is to provide and empower the vulnerable groups in communities to access reproductive health services, green nutrition and child protection.

• Reproductive health services help in educating every youth about sexual and reproductive well-being, creates awareness among adolescents about safe sexual practices and protects both the mother and the child from infectious diseases and to deliver a healthy as well as helping in preventing sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS.
• Malnutrition is the main cause of stunting, severe wasting, and intrauterine growth retardation which are major contributors to child mortality, while malnutrition is the major cause of morbidity for all age groups. Nutrition security without greening puts pressure on forests for firewood and charcoal.
• Children subjected to violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect are at risk of death, depression, developmental delays, poor physical and mental health, HIV/AIDS infection, educational problems, displacement, homelessness, vagrancy and risk of developing substance abuse during adulthood as well as poor parenting skills later in life.