Six packages of care, delivered on every visit
One stop for the whole child — health education and promotion, screening, treatment and referral, in a single visit to the school. Scroll through what each package delivers, and the evidence behind it.
Paediatric Primary Healthcare
Most of what empties a Ugandan classroom is cheap to prevent and cheap to treat — and almost never treated at school.
So every child can:
📈 The need: 14–64% of Ugandan pupils carry the malaria parasite — most without symptoms (Nankabirwa et al., 2014)
Adolescent Reproductive Health
A pregnancy ends a schooling far more often than an illness does — and adolescents are reachable at school, not at a clinic.
So every teenager can:
📈 The need: ~1 in 4 Ugandan girls aged 15–19 have begun childbearing (UDHS 2022)
Menstrual Health & Hygiene
The conversation has been about pads for a decade. Pain is what actually keeps a girl at home — and pads do not treat pain.
So every girl can:
📈 The need: 32% higher odds of missing school per standard-deviation rise in menstrual pain (southern Uganda, 2025)
Child & Adolescent Mental Health
A pupil carrying untreated anxiety is marked present and learns very little. An attendance register cannot see this at all.
So every child can:
📈 The need: 27% of adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa experience depression; 30% an anxiety disorder
Immunisation & Vaccination
The dose is already funded. Reaching the child is the hard part — and that gets far easier when the vaccine comes to the school.
So every child can be:
📈 The need: 41% second-dose HPV coverage in Uganda against an 80% target — but over 95% where delivery was school-based
Health Informatics
Medical camps have a long history of arriving, treating and leaving no trace. A screening no one can follow did not really happen.
So every visit can:
📈 The need: 100% of children seen receive a digital record, and every referral is tracked to completion
The three a classroom never catches
Malaria announces itself. Toothache, a blocked ear and a blurred blackboard do not — they present as a child who is quiet, distracted or slow. These are the conditions most often mistaken for a learning problem, and among the cheapest in medicine to correct. All three sit inside the paediatric package.
Oral health
Caries affects 42–78% of twelve-year-olds across Africa. In Uganda, 31.8% of twelve-year-olds report a history of toothache and 33.6% of 11–13-year-olds in Gulu have caries. A meta-analysis in the Journal of the American Dental Association found caries and tooth pain negatively associated with both academic achievement and school absenteeism.
Ear, nose & throat
Otitis media affects around 8% of children across Africa (range 3–16%). In Uganda 3.3% of primary schoolchildren have hearing loss — mostly unilateral and conductive, the type a teacher never notices — and 14.1% have fluid behind the eardrum. Nigerian data show chronic ear infection measurably depresses academic performance.
Eye health
Across sub-Saharan Africa 12.6% of children have a refractive error and 3.4% are visually impaired because of one. Fewer than a third of rural children who need spectacles own or wear them. School vision screening is established as a safe, cost-effective way to find and correct this.
Sources: BMC Oral Health, systematic review and meta-analysis of caries among 12-year-olds in Africa, 2022 · Kiwanuka & Åstrøm, Ugandan schoolchildren · BMC Oral Health, Gulu district, 2024 · JADA systematic review and meta-analysis, 2019 · Westerberg et al., Mbarara · otitis media with effusion, Uganda, 2022 · Nigerian CSOM and academic performance, 2009 · pooled prevalence of refractive error in sub-Saharan African children
Where these figures come from
WHO, World Malaria Report 2024 · Nankabirwa et al., Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2014 · Disease Control Priorities, 3rd ed., Vol 8 · Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2022 · pooled meta-analysis of 18 sub-Saharan African studies on menstrual absence · Children and Youth Services Review, 2025 (southern Uganda) · Office of the Auditor General Uganda, Value for Money Audit, 2024 · systematic reviews of adolescent mental health in sub-Saharan Africa, ages 10–19 · systematic review and meta-analysis of HPV uptake in sub-Saharan Africa, 2024 · Uganda Ministry of Health HPV programme reporting · Healing Wheels Uganda Year-1 logframe and health informatics records.
Where the evidence is contested or thin, we say so on the page rather than in a footnote.
Six packages. One visit. One child at a time.
Every package above is delivered on the same day, to the same child, for $13.21 a year.