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Countries commit to scaling-up IDSR to tackle guinea worm disease in Africa

Experts from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda convened in Entebbe, Uganda, to identify and discuss opportunities to strengthen cross-border interventions for guinea worm disease eradication.  Participants mapped a joint action plan for 2018 to strengthen surveillance, communication and coordination for guinea worm disease eradication. They further charted a strategy to strengthen cross-border surveillance among refugees to prevent the disease from spilling over to refugee host-communities.

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Uganda conducts preventative Polio immunization campaign

The Ministry of Health with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) conducted a three-day preventative house-to-house polio immunization campaign reaching 5,570,000 children below the age of five in the 73 selected high-risk districts in Uganda. 

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WHO supports Government of Uganda to develop a National Action Plan for Health Secur...

The Ministry of Health with support from World Health Organization (WHO) convened a five-day meeting to develop a National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) for Uganda.  The development of the NAPHS comes after a Joint External Evaluation (JEE) of Uganda’s readiness to readiness to respond to public health emergencies, which was done in May 2017 by WHO and other partners.

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Uganda’s Health Minister Calls for Cross-Border Surveillance to Eradicate Guinea Wor...

24th November 2008. The Minister of State for Health Dr Emmanuel Otaala has called for strong cross-border surveillance for Guinea Worm disease saying it is one of the sure ways to eradicate the diseases. Speaking at the opening ceremony for the Inter-regional meeting for Guinea Warm eradication programmes held at Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala, Dr Otaala said that “we cannot achieve eradication working as individual countries – we need to work as a group.”

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Managing Marburg fever in Uganda

When cases of Marburg haemorrhagic fever were recently identified in a remote mining area in western Uganda, WHO and the Ugandan Ministry of Health immediately began an intense surveillance and response effort. They were supported by scientists and medical experts from the Uganda Virology Research Institute (UVRI), the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa and the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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Uganda commemorates World No Tobacco Day 2017

In Uganda, about 1 percent of the total cost of tobacco-related illnesses are attributed to tobacco use and the direct cost of treating tobacco attributable illnesses is estimated to be 108.05 billion Uganda shillings (USD 41.56m).

These are some of the startling results of a study, “The Health Cost of Tobacco in Uganda” that was launched by Dr. Chris Baryomunsi, the Minister of Lands and Housing, at a breakfast meeting hosted by the Ministry of Health to commemorate World No Tobacco day 2017. The theme for this year is “Tobacco – a threat to development”.

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