Interview With Minister of Health On the Ebola Sudan Disease Experience africacdc: Uganda
Uganda Minister of Health, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng speaks during an International Partners meeting to Discuss Ebola Preparedness and Response in 2019."When communities are empowered, they do miracles! When they understand exactly what the problem is, they educate each other, carry out surveillance, and they inform the responders in real time."
Given that Uganda has so far experienced several EVD outbreaks, please share how the response efforts and experience has strengthened Uganda's public health system.Uganda has experienced seven Ebola outbreaks since the year 2000, when our first Ebola outbreak was extremely devastating, with over 400 cases and 250 deaths. Uganda started putting systems in place for early detection and response.
Number four partnerships and collaborations because partners come in with resources, not only financial resources but also technical resources and knowledge that can contribute to controlling epidemics in real-time. And, of course, it is important to ensure that the village health teams or the communities are well-trained for them to move door to door. Of course, teamwork is extremely important, using the pillars that WHO has clearly outlined with proper coordination.
The second and most important was the community engagement, the training of village health teams and ensuring that we move door to door to empower the communities with information taking into consideration that outbreaks start in the communities and end in the communities. So, Africa CDC provided resources for training village health teams and supported village health teams to move, do to door both in Mubnde and in Kassanda.
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