Policy Guidelines for the Private-for-Profit (PFP) Independent Healthcare Subsector in Uganda Background These Policy Guidelines, which focuses on the Private-for-Profit (PFP) Independent Health Subsector, are developed in the context of providing guidelines and tools for self-regulation of this subsector and also to serve as instruments to Public-Private Partnership and regulation by the government. One of the consequences of these policies was that the independent health subsector, which mostly provides curative care in Uganda, is expanding, fragmented, uncoordinated and inadequately regulated. The outlets for the independent private health sector include the ‘solo clinics’ run by the individual practitioners and or institutions like hospitals, polyclinics, health centers, maternity and nursing homes, dental clinics and hospitals, diagnostic labs etc. According to recent health survey reports, the independent private health subsector is mostly concentrated ...