Seed Global Health

05/27/2026

On Emergency Medicine Day, we celebrate the health workers providing urgent, lifesaving care when every second counts.

Dr. Sarah Oworinawe is one of them.

She is the only emergency medicine physician at Yumbe Regional Referral Hospital, serving more than 1.6 million people in Northern Uganda, including two large refugee communities.

In under a year, Sarah has helped build a stronger emergency care system from the ground up establishing a functional triage system to ensure critically ill patients receive timely care and setting up a dedicated resuscitation area at the hospital.

She is also supporting neighbouring facilities, including Adjumani General Hospital, to strengthen emergency care services across the region.

At Seed, we know stronger emergency care systems start with investing in health workers through training, mentorship, and long-term support.

Sarah’s story shows what is possible when skilled providers are empowered to lead change in their communities.

05/20/2026

Vaccination protects you at every stage of life 💙

From preventing cancer to reducing severe respiratory disease, immunization is a lifelong investment in health.

We support the Life-Course Immunization Call to Action:
https://www.wfpha.org/life-course-immunization/

05/19/2026

Strong health systems are built on strong primary care.

On World Family Doctor Day, we are celebrating the critical role family medicine physicians play in delivering patient-centered care across all stages of life, managing everything from everyday illnesses to chronic conditions.

Doctors like Nalukuyi Wanga 👩🏽‍⚕️💙

Dr. Wanga is one of the family medicine physicians helping make care simpler and closer to home. Family doctors treat everyday illnesses, manage chronic conditions, support mothers and children, and catch complications early — all in one place.

The growing number of family medicine physicians in Zambia, supported by Seed’s work to strengthen training and education, is making care more accessible and consistent across communities.

Thank you to every family doctor for saving lives and improving health every day! 🙌

Ministry of Health Zambia World Organization of Family Doctors - WONCA World Health Organization (WHO)

05/12/2026

International Nurses Day reminds us of something simple but powerful – skilled nurses save lives.

And one dedicated and determined nurses is Sister Annette Nabushuwu.

Join us as we celebrate the incredible work of nurses everywhere for their strength, compassion, and dedication to save lives 👩🏾‍⚕️🤍

As a nurse midwife and leader at Busiu Health Centre IV in Uganda, Sister Annette is often the first point of care before referral to higher-level facilities. It is her skill, the team she has trained around her, and the system they work within that determine whether mothers survive.

She ensures women receive high-quality care close to home and are referred early and appropriately when complications arise.

Beyond the facility, nurses and midwives extend care into communities - delivering immunisation services, providing preventive care, and screening mothers where they live.

“We teach mothers, provide preventive care, and screen them for diseases,” she says. “When we identify a high-risk case, the mother is referred, but care has already begun. If a midwife has done well, lives are saved.”

At Seed-supported Mbale Regional Referral Hospital, where Busiu and other facilities refer complicated cases, maternal deaths fell by 47% in one year - from 1,117 in 2024 to 594 in 2025 (per 100,000 live births).

This is not the result of one hospital alone.

It reflects a deliberate effort led by the Ministry of Health, with support from Seed Global Health and partners, to strengthen care across the entire system, from community and lower-level facilities to referral hospitals.

As a trainer of trainers, Sister Annette extends her impact across more than 20 facilities in the Elgon region, strengthening skills, sharpening clinical decision-making, and ensuring that more women reach higher-level care earlier and in better condition for treatment when needed.

This is how systems change. When nurses and midwives are trained, supported, and connected across levels of care, delays reduce, referrals improve, and the chance of survival for mothers and babies increases.

And we see the impact every day.

We are proud to invest in and support nurse and the whole health workforce - because when we invest in them, we build resilient health systems and better outcomes for communities.

Happy International Nurses Day 💙 And thank you nurses for everything you do!

05/05/2026

Midwives save lives 🩺💜

Through skilled care, quick action, and a deep commitment to mothers and newborns, midwives are the difference between crisis and survival.

When midwives are:
✅ trained to the highest standards
✅ supported by expert mentorship
✅ working in strong clinical environments ..survival rates improve 📈

🎥 Take a look inside our midwifery work at Lira Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda...

And celebrate midwives with us today on International Day of the Midwife 🎉

05/05/2026

It’s International Day of the Midwife 👩🏾‍⚕️💜
And we know the incredible power of skilled midwives 💪
Across Seed-supported facilities in Uganda maternal deaths decreased by 24% between 2024 and 2025.
They are the heroes on the frontline of survival for mothers and newborns 🤱✨

🎥 Watch the story of the highly skilled midwives at Lira Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda who save lives every day.

Our work in Lira is part of our broader mission across Uganda and all our partner countries to build resilient systems where mothers and newborns can survive and thrive thanks to expert midwifery care.

04/24/2026

This World Malaria Day, the message is clear: malaria is changing, and our response must change with it.

Our Deputy Country Director in Uganda Dr. Brian Agaba, writes that as Uganda’s weather patterns shift due to climate change, malaria transmission is no longer predictable. He argues that our approaches, still built around old seasonal predictions, are failing mothers

Sarah was 8 months pregnant when malaria took her baby. What seemed like normal pregnancy symptoms turned deadly. What was thought to be “normal pregnancy symptoms” became fatal, because malaria is increasingly harder to recognize, and too often it is recognized too late.

Across Uganda, shifting weather patterns are making malaria harder to predict, putting more pressure on already stretched health systems.

And at the heart of the response are health workers.

Midwives and nurses are often the first, and sometimes only, line of care. Without enough of them, cases are missed, delayed, or treated too late.

We must:

✔️Close the gap between policy and practice in antenatal care, ensuring every woman is screened, tested, and treated in time.
✔️Invest in and deploy more midwives and nurses, so no woman is left without skilled care.
✔️Strengthen malaria prevention and response systems, aligning supply chains to a changing, unpredictable disease pattern.

Because no mother or child should die from a preventable disease.

Malaria has changed. Our response must too.
Malaria Consortium Malaria No More

04/23/2026

The Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) at Makeni Regional Hospital is back up and running!

Thanks to Seed’s support, the SCBU has been renovated after the fire that left the previous unit in ruins. At the heart of this story are the health workers who continued to care for newborns under difficult conditions. This renewed space now gives them a safer, more functional environment to provide lifesaving care for premature and sick babies taking their first critical breaths.

Every baby deserves a fighting chance. Today, that chance just got stronger 💛

04/20/2026

A major moment for neonatal care in Sierra Leone 💜

The renovation of the Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) restores the capacity that was lost and offer a safer and more advanced environment for the care of premature and vulnerable babies.

We are incredibly proud to have supported the reconstruction.

04/15/2026

We are proud to be one of the five 2026 MedMissions Award recipients from the Inteleos Foundation!

As part of the partnership we're training health workers in Sierra Leone to use point-of-care ultrasound to identify complications in high-risk pregnancies, driving maternal and newborn health outcomes.

🗣️The Inteleos Foundation is proud to announce the five recipients of the 2026 MedMissions Award! This year's recipients are bringing point-of-care ultrasound to frontline health workers, improving outcomes for high-risk pregnancies in Malawi, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Uganda, and Côte d'Ivoire.👏Congratulations to these inspiring organizations strengthening maternal-fetal healthcare through diagnostics.

Read more about the 2026 projects: https://inteleosfoundation.org/2026medmissionsawardees