From 17th May to 4th June 2010, a pharmaceutical Sector Scan was conducted in order to assemble a core set of existing information about Uganda’s pharmaceutical sector and to highlight key information gaps. A range of public and private sector institutions were scanned by a team of three consultants to assemble existing country-level data, assess their validity, flag inconsistencies between sources, and provide the most up-to-date summary of existing information. Key data was entered in a structured format using data forms which were classified according to the following domains:

1. Country Profile;
2. Medicines Policy and Regulatory Framework;
3. Medicines Market;
4. Medicines Financing;
5. Medicines Trade;
6. Medicines Supply System;
7. Medicines Access;
8. Medicines Use.