As in all complex humanitarian emergencies, providing and ensuring mental health interventions safeguards humane treatment for all. As at present, in Uganda, there is a glaring absence of a comprehensive targeted national psychosocial intervention initiative to the COVID-19 pandemic. Under this technical brief, we set out to illustrate how the government of Uganda’s response to Covid19 has affected and may continue to impact the various facets of mental health in Uganda.

• In this technical brief we note that the emphasis of the Ugandan response has been to prevent community spread of the COVID-19 virus following WHO recommendations. However there have been the following gaps that have led to mental health fall out.