Uganda

The leaders also pledged to protect essential services such as education, routine healthcare, cholera control and measles response efforts as countries confront the growing public health threat.

Authorities also dispatched a team of 35 experts from Kinshasa to reinforce surveillance, infection prevention and control, contact tracing, and community engagement efforts in the affected areas.

The launch coincides with the company’s 30th year of operations and reinforces its strategy of building an integrated healthcare system across Uganda.

Health authorities in DRC and Uganda have already activated emergency response mechanisms, including contact tracing, case isolation, infection prevention measures, and enhanced treatment services.

This deployment represents a landmark achievement in the country’s ongoing effort to build resilient community health systems and move closer to Universal Health Coverage.

Each year, approximately 20,000 Ugandan patients travel to India seeking specialized cancer care unavailable at home.

The agreement outlines a comprehensive plan to save lives, build a more resilient health system, and enhance both nations’ capacity to address emerging global health challenges.

The organization plans to construct the country’s first dedicated facility for treating Sickle Cell Disease and blood cancers, which will offer life-saving bone-marrow transplants that are currently unavailable within Uganda’s borders.

Results showed that the injectable regimen performed just as well as the daily oral dolutegravir-based therapy (TLD) but helped reduce the burden of daily medication.