Obulamu Campaign

The Ministry of Health with support from the USAID-funded Communication for Healthy Communities project is implementing an integrated health communication platform called OBULAMU? which, in English translates to How’s Life? OBULAMU? is a popular way of greeting in most parts of Uganda. It elicits responses that go beyond “good” or “bad” to enable the responder to give details about life context, feelings, and emotions. In adopting the OBULAMU? phrase, the campaign design makes health an integral part of people’s daily lives, making it easy to talk about health issues relevant to the audience’s context. Additionally, the campaign seeks to position health in a fresh way that addresses barriers to behavior change, head-on with questions instead of messages, coupled with skills building to engage in dialogue and turn such dialogue into action.