CONSERVATION THROUGH PUBLIC HEALTH
Improving health and livelihoods near Africa’s protected areas for a better coexistence between communties and gorillas
Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH) is a non-profit ONG with an innovative methodology that focuses on the interdependence of wildlife and human health in and around Africa’s protected areas.
Located in Buhoma village, CTPH aims to be an internationally-renowned leader in gorilla research and conservation by using a multidisciplinary approach which promotes sustainable animal and human health services, advocacy, education, and research.
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In Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, CTPH has trained rangers, trackers, field assistants, and community volunteers in gorilla health monitoring through recognizing clinical signs in gorillas and collecting fecal samples from night nests and fresh trails.
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CTPH is working with the Kanungu District Medical Office and local health centers to improve the health of Bwindi communities. A Population, Health and Environment (PHE) approach is being used to reduce threats to mountain gorillas and other wildlife, by consolidating community based health care to promote family planning, and prevent and control TB, scabies, HIV/AIDS and dysentery. This is done by facilitating the formation of community health volunteer networks, which educate and encourage their community to be more hygienic and have better health practices and conservation attitudes.​​
CTPH is working with the Kanungu District Medical Office and local health centers to improve the health of Bwindi communities. A Population, Health and Environment (PHE) approach is being used to reduce threats to mountain gorillas and other wildlife, by consolidating community based health care to promote family planning, and prevent and control TB, scabies, HIV/AIDS and dysentery. This is done by facilitating the formation of community health volunteer networks, which educate and encourage their community to be more hygienic and have better health practices and conservation attitudes.​
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Agandi Uganda is supporting CTPH by promoting its activities like Gorilla conservation through public health or the Gorilla Conservation Coffee social enterprise project.
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Gorilla Conservation Coffee established in 2015, supports coffee farmers, in particular women, providing a source of economic empowerment for women in communities.​
