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Ministry of Health and WHO staff teaching health workers proper donning and doffing of a Personal Protective Equipment

Arua Regional Referral Hospital Medical Team Learns Quick Valuable Lessons from COVID-19 Response

Kampala, 24 September 2020: - For many health workers of Arua…
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Coronavirus

Village Health Teams look for COVID-19 patients House-to-House in Kanungu District

Kampala, 21 September 2020:- In Bwindi village in Kanungu district…
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Uganda Commemorates World Patient Safety Day and Lights Iconic Bridge to Acknowledge Health Workers

Uganda Commemorates World Patient Safety Day and Lights Iconic Bridge to Acknowledge Health Workers

Kampala, 17 September 2020: - “As we mark this year’s World Patient…
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Coronavirus

Ministry of Health and WHO Respond to a Spike of COVID-19 Infection in Amuru Prison

Kampala, 14 September 2020: - Amuru Prison is just like any other…
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One of the Treatment Units that was set up to manage cases and has now been repurposed to manage COVID-19 cases

Ebola response bolsters Uganda’s COVID-19 fight

When much of the world was waking up to the enormous implications of…
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Coronavirus

WHO works with the Army to educate a fishing community about COVID-19 in Uganda

Kampala, 7 September 2020:- At Rwenshama point of entry on the shores…
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A WHO officer conducting COVID-19 community engagement

When Community Engagement Restored Trust and Raised Public Index of Suspicion for COVID-19

Kampala, 4 September 2020:- When the World Health Organization (WHO…
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WHO officials talk to the health workers at Kasensero Health Center II

WHO supports the Government of Uganda to rapidly respond to COVID–19 at Kasensero Landing Site

Kampala, 2 September 2020:- Kasensero landing site located on…
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Health workers going through the drills of donning and doffing Personal Protective Equipment during an outbreak of Marburg Hemorrhagic fever in Kapchorwa district, eastern Uganda in 2017.

How Previous Ebola Virus Disease Outbreaks Helped Uganda Respond to COVID-19 Outbreak

For many public health workers in Uganda, responding to disease…
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Health worker vaccinates a resident of Moyo District against Yellow Fever

Ministry of Health Yellow Fever Vaccination Campaign targets 1.6 million lives in the West-Nile region of Uganda

Moyo, 20th August 2020:- Mr Mark Oguma Oguti and his daughter Claudia…
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