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Uganda adopted the Village Health Teams (VHTs) strategy in 2001 as an entry point to health interventions at community level. VHT´s mobilize community members for better health, foster positive health seeking behavior & reduce geographical inaccessibility by bringing PHC services nearer to the community. Selected by people themselves to deliver basic Health Care services, VHT´s promote services that lead to improved child health, maternal Health, HIV/AIDS, malaria control & improved sanitation. Although World Bank studies showed that, low income countries are unlikely to attain MDGs by 2015, Uganda´s VHT´s strategy seems to have changed this thinking. Studies in Kabarole showed that, VHT´s promoted immunization 90%, Child Health Days 81% mobilized pregnant mothers for ANC 89%, mobilized mothers to deliver in health facilities 79%, promoted HIV testing services 83%, & good sanitation 63%. VHT strategy hence becomes Uganda´s most cost effective strategy to the attainment of Health MDG´s (4, 5, 6 and 7). This evidence based book therefore, serves to motivate policy makers in developing countries to adopt Uganda´s VHT strategy so as to meet the 2000 UN summit resolutions by 2015.

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Tumwebaze Mathias. PhD in Public Health Lecturer in the school of Health sciences at Mountains of the Moon University, Fort Portal Uganda. He also works as a coordinator for Health Systems strengthening Project in the DHO´s office Kabarole District Uganda,

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