Uganda Success Stories

Jane Nyangoma is a 37-year-old mother of five children who was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) while attending the post-natal clinic at a rural health facility in western Uganda. Jane is HIV-positive and was accessing elimination of mother-to-child transmission (eMTCT) services at the same facility.

On June 4-22, 2018, Kampala hosted the 52nd Stop Transmission of Polio (STOP) training for the third consecutive time. The training, launched in 1998 by CDC’s Center for Global Health, Global Immunization Division as technical support to strengthen surveillance activities for the polio eradication program…

Benon Kwesiga, MD, a fellow with the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) in Uganda, was a few months into the program when he heard an alarming radio report…

Since the early 1960s, there have been reports of a mysterious disease affecting children in Africa, which causes uncontrolled head nodding (particularly in the presence of food), seizure-like activity…

In the early years of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, a safe blood supply was a critical concern for stopping the transmission of HIV for developed and developing…

Deficiencies in the health care systems in most countries supported by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)External Web Site Icon are enormous, and no single entity – neither governmental and non-governmental organizations nor industry…