The decentralization of health services and programmes to district level has been actively supported by WHO. This has involved capacity building at district and community level, monitoring and evaluation programmes and p…
Read moreDr. Sam Zaramba the Director General of Health Services represents Uganda on the Executive Board of World Health Organisation in Geneva Switzerland Dr. Sam Zaramba has been appointed as Chairperson of the Executive Bo…
Read moreThe WHO Representative for Uganda Dr Joaquim Saweka paid a two-days working visit to Soroti district, Eastern Uganda to check on the implementation of the Making Pregnancy Safer (MPS) project that was initiated by WHO an…
Read moreThe WHO Representative for Uganda Dr Joaquim Saweka (middle) and the Minister of Health Dr Stephen Mallinga (far right) addressing a press conference on the joint response plan to the polio outbreak in Uganda. Downloa…
Read moreWhen 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…
Read more13 April 2004, Kampala -- The out-going WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Ebrahim M. Samba has advised whoever takes over from to continue the "hard work, be credible, transparent and confident". He said this ear…
Read moreTo protect the public, especially those most vulnerable, from the harmful effects of tobacco, Uganda has instituted a range of regulatory measures for tobacco control and is taking steps to ensure compliance with existin…
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