Uganda News

The World Health Organization (WHO) Uganda joined the rest of the world to commemorate World Malaria Day 2023 and the launch of the lifesaving vector control tool, the Insecticide Treated Mosquitoes nets (ITNs).  

The function took place on 25th April in Bugiri district under the national theme, ‘Getting back on track through investing, innovating, and implementation’. The day was preceded by a match past through town intended to raise awareness and mobilize communities to fight malaria which has claimed many lives in Uganda.

The Ministry of Health will vaccinate over 1.9 million children against yellow fever with support from UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Gavi

Uganda's Ministry of Health (MOH), with support from World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners organized a three-day annual nutrition symposium (15–17 February 2023) in Kampala, focusing on the systems approach for improving nutrition service delivery and outcomes in Uganda.

On 11 January 2023, Uganda declared the end of Sudan Ebola virus disease (SVD) outbreak. The declaration was made after 42 days without any new case reported.

Karamoja – The World Health Organization (WHO) Uganda has started delivering medical supplies to more than 518,000 people in the Karamoja sub-region, north-eastern Uganda, facing adver

Kampala. Partners in the Sudan Ebola virus disease (SVD) outbreak response in Uganda have endorsed a six month (January - July, 2023) USD 32 million national post-Ebola recovery plan at a meeting in Kampala.

On February 6, 2023, members of national immunization technical advisory groups (NITAGs) from Liberia, Botswana, South Sudan and Uganda converged in Kampala, Uganda for a five-day capacity building workshop. The workshop aimed at reinforcing the capacity of members to efficiently undertake technical and advisory roles.  

Kampala. Fourteen fellows from the Uganda Public Health Fellowship (PHFP) graduated, on 13^th January 2023, in field epidemiology offered at the Uganda National Institute of Public Health.

Brazzaville/Kampala – Uganda today declared the end of the Ebola disease outbreak caused by Sudan ebolavirus, less than four months after the first case was confirmed in the country’s central Mubende district on 20 September 2022.