HEPS-Uganda is a Health Consumers’ Organisation advocating for health rights and responsibilities. The organisation is a coalition of health consumers, health advocates, health practitioners, Civil Society Organisations and Community Based Organisations. HEPS-Uganda was established as a not-for profit-organisation in 1999 out of concern for the lack of attention for health consumers in the country. HEPS stated its founding mission and guiding principles in the first strategic planning meeting in 2000. An office with a functional secretariat was opened in the same year. Initially, HEPS focused solely on Health Policy Advocacy. Subsequently, after conducting several advocacy activities on its own, the organisation started the Ugandan Coalition for Access to Essential Medicines in 2002.