Training on incident management system for malaria epidemics in Uganda, Golf Course Hotel, Kampala, 7th-10th February, 2023
Author and institutional affiliations: Gorreti M. Zalwango*, Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program-Field Epidemiology Fellow Cohort 2022; Correspondence*: Email: mzalwango@musph.ac.ug, Tel: +256-752610802
From 2022 to date, the country has been experiencing malaria epidemics in a number of districts. Uganda took on the incident management system to manage malaria epidemics in the country being the first country in Sub-Sahara Africa to adopt this approach. The training was conducted by officials from the World Health Organisation.
The training participants included members from the National Malaria Control Division, Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program field epidemiology fellows, and other national and international malaria stakeholders in the country.
The 4-day training was closed by the Hon. Minister of Health, Dr. Jane Ruth Achieng who urged the teams to uphold good leadership and commitment during management of malaria epidemics at all levels, emphasized behavioural change, and a need to rethink risk communication for better management of the epidemic and reduced malaria mortality.
