The U.S. Embassy in Uganda developed a “COVID-19 Resource Toolkit” in collaboration with Uganda’s Ministry of Health and other partners in order to expand access to key COVID-19 information and resources across Ugandan society. The toolkit includes links to videos, public service announcements in various languages, posters, and other information on COVID-19 signs and…
On September 30, 2020, the Voucher Plus Activity, a project of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to expand and improve access to quality maternal and newborn services will close. Christine Namayanja, the chief of the party spoke to Health Journalists Network in Uganda (HEJNU) about the achievements of the vouchers and the journey…
For many public health workers in Uganda, responding to disease outbreaks of epidemic potential is not new. This is because the country has been in preparedness and response modes for quite some time and its disease outbreak system has regularly been tested over the years. Uganda has had four Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreaks in…