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Uganda
joined the Alliance in 1998.
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Partners
in Population and Development (PPD),
in collaboration with Population Secretariat,
Ministry of Finance, Planning and
Economic Development of the Government
of Uganda organized a workshop on
“South-South Cooperation in
Sustainable Development” on
22nd of February 2007 at the Grand
Imperial Hotel, Kampala, Uganda.
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Uganda
was represented at the highest level
of the 1994 ICPD and it had set up
a national workshop to disseminate
the ICPD Programme of Action.
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Uganda
has been implementing a number of
South-South initiatives in terms of
technical exchanges, study tours and
training opportunities. The government
has also enhanced its collaboration
with NGOs in advancing population
and development related issues.
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In
regard to South-South collaboration,
Uganda has made significant contributions.
It has established a database of national
consultants who can provide technical
support for South-South activities
and programs. It presented a progress
report on South-South activities during
the visit of the PPD Executive Director.
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Uganda
has been organising training exercises
for other countries. For instance,
there have been regional training
activities in safe blood supply and
transfusion services for Anglophone
African countries. TASO and Aids Information
Centre provided training to 2 institutions
in the African region on VCT and home
based care.
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Uganda
has also hosted the ExCo meeting in
April 2004 and arranged a field visit
to MidMay Clinic which has offered
to train locally and to set up similar
centres in neighbouring countries.
Uganda, in turn, has benefited from
fellowships from Indonesia and Bangladesh.
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Uganda
is widely acclaimed as a success story
for its phenomenal reduction of the
HIV/AIDS incidence and prevalence
rates. A paper entitled “Meeting
the Challenges of HIV/AIDS: Sharing
Experiences and Lessons Learned from
Uganda” was presented during
the Conference on South-South Co-operation
into the 21st century Meeting Reproductive
Health, Population and Development
Challenges in Africa and Asia, held
at the UN University, Tokyo in 1999.
It has offered assistance to neighbouring
countries in setting up HIV/AIDS training
programmes. Through the Population
Secretariat, Uganda hosted the visit
of Partners’ Regional Director
of Sub-Saharan Africa to document
Centres of Excellence and training
opportunities in HIV. As part of its
efforts to contain the HIV problem,
the country has organised study tours
on HIV AIDS programme for delegations
from India and South Africa as well
as fielded 2 missions headed by Zambia
Minister of Health and Tanzanian Prime
Minister.
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Uganda
has been consistently undertaking
effective measures to improve the
health sector. It launched the EARHN
Second Strategic Plan at a workshop
in November 1999 and hosted EARHN
meeting in 2000. With support from
PathFinder and under the auspices
of EARHN, this member country organised
and conducted a regional study tour
to Zambia and South Africa to look
at RH programmes. It has also held
2 national RH Advisory Committee meetings
to discuss issues of the girl child
education initiative, and the strategic
expansion and marketing of EARHN.
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