Uganda News

The World Health Organization Regional Office in Africa (WHO AFRO) and United Nations Children’s Education fund (UNICEF) together convened a workshop to orient 14 Anglophone countries on theNew Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in responding to a Poliovirus event or outbreak, at the Common Wealth Resort Hotel in Munyonyo, Kampala.

The World Health Organization Country Office in Uganda and the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) convened to discuss the proposed CDC-WHO Cooperative Agreement (CoAg) on Health information architecture and interoperable standards for public health surveillance of Ebola and other highly infectious diseases. The meeting took place at the WHO country office in Uganda.

The World Health Organization (WHO), Global Fund together with partners and in collaboration with Makerere University supported the Ministry of Health National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Program (MOH/NTLP) to conduct the National Tuberculosis (TB) prevalence survey.  The goal of the survey was to enable the NTLP to gain a better understanding of the burden of TB so as to identify ways of improving TB control in the country.

The World Health Organization (WHO) a member and secretariat for the Health Development Partners (HDP) hosted the first interactive meeting with the Health Committee of the10th Parliament of Uganda. The objective of the meeting was to orient the newly constituted Parliamentary Health Committee (PHC) about the work of HDP in supporting the Ministry of Health (MoH) to provide better health services.

The World Health Organization (WHO) trained health workers in surveillance for Invasive Bacterial Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (IB-VPD). The trainers included Professor Mary Slack, WHO Consultant, Ms Jill Murray, WHO Consultant, Mr. Reggis Katsande and Mr. Sarathiel Chaipa, AFRO Regional Office, Harare.  This is under the WHO-supported programme of surveillance for IB-VPD, a hospital-based sentinel surveillance network that seeks to gather high quality standardized data on severe invasive infections caused by selected pathogens.

The Minister of Health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng launched the National Coordination Committee (NCC) for Tuberculosis (TB) at the Ministry of Health (MoH) headquarters in Kampala. The NCC is composed of a membership of different stakeholders in the health sector who include MoH, Health Development Partners, laboratory technicians, Civil Society Organisations, religious organizations, the armed forces and pharmacists.

September 2016 - The World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office in Uganda hosted the inaugural Malaria Surveillance, Monitoring, & Evaluation – Operational Research (SM&E-OR) Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting.

30 September 2016 - The 22nd Annual Health Sector Joint Review Mission (JRM) under the theme “Embracing new health reforms and innovation to improve Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) services in Uganda took place at the  Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala.

The objectives of the 22nd JRM were:

3 October 2016 - The World Health Organization (WHO) in Uganda made a presentation on the burden of Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) to the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) in Uganda under the theme “Non-Communicable Diseases: An Epidemic in Revolution”. The meeting was hosted by World Food Program at their offices in Kampala.

October 2016 - Kisowera Primary School playground in Mukono District was filled with activity as Uganda commemorated the Safe Motherhood Day 2016 under the theme ‘Expanded Opportunities for Adolescent Health Services; End Maternal Mortality.' The commemoration focused Adolescent Health services due to high numbers of teenage pregnancy which largely contributes  to maternal mortality.