• Cabinet to discuss Health Bill

    Kampala- Cabinet is due to discuss the National Health Insurance Bill after the Ministry of Finance committed to grant the Health ministry a certificate of financial implications. The certificate of financial implications shows that there are funds for the implementation of the Bill once it has been passed into law and it is a requirement before

  • Dissemination of the Round-2 Survey findings from the Performance Monitoring and Accountability (PMA2020) Project

    The PMA2020 Project at the School of Public Health (SPH) together with Partners in Population and Development Africa Regional Office (PPDARO) disseminated Round-2 Survey findings from the Performance Monitoring and Accountability (PMA2020) Project on July 22nd, 2015 at the Serena Hotel, Kampala. The PMA2020 Project is a five (5) year project which aims at collecting

  • Dr. Jotham Musinguzi, Regional Director of PPD Africa Regional Office (PPD ARO) appointed Board Chairman, Organization of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS in Africa (OAFLA)-Uganda Chapter

    On Friday July 10, 2015, the First Lady of Uganda and Minister for Karamoja Affairs, Hon. Janet Museveniappointed Dr. Jotham Musinguzi, Board Chairman of the Organization of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS in Africa (OAFLA), Uganda Chapter. It is worth noting that the OFLA, Uganda Chapter agreed to extend its mandate to include maternal and adolescent health

  • International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement 2014

    Dr. Jotham Musinguzi, M.P.H. ’91 In his native Uganda, Jotham Musinguzi practiced obstetrics and gynecology for 10 years, then taught at Makerere University’s medical school for another ten. He left the practice of medicine, however, deciding instead “to deal with policy issues, rather than clinical practice, because I realized clinical practice is not enough. We

  • Lancet Profile of Jotham Musinguzi: Delivering for Africa

    Every day, as the sun rises over the dense forests that skirt Uganda’s borders with Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, hundreds of children stream out from the shacks dotted all over one of the world’s most densely populated rural landscapes and set out along the dirt roads on their arduous trek to school.

  • DR JOTHAM MUSINGUZI RECEIVES 2013 UN POPULATION AWARD

    New York, June 28, 2013:  UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented the 2013 prestigious UN Population Award, which included a Diploma, Medal and a cash prize, to Dr. Jotham Musinguzi of Uganda at UN Headquarters in New York. Dr. Musinguzi was selected in recognition of his outstanding work to promote the International Conference on Population and

  • Uganda: Maternal Health is a Human Right – Activists

    By Vicky Wandawa, 23 October 2012 The Population Secretariat (POPSEC) has started campaigning for maternal health as a human right. The project, launched on Thursday at Hotel Africana, Kampala, changes strategy from merely advocating for maternal health to creating massive awareness that it is a human right. Dr. Betty Kyadondo, the Head of Family Health

  • Increasing Access to Quality Reproductive Health Services

    Written by Dr. Jotham Musinguzi , Regional Director, Partners in Population and Development Africa Regional Office On July 11, 2012, the UK government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with UNFPA and other partners hosted a groundbreaking Summit that mobilized global policy, financing, commodity, and service delivery commitments to support the rights of an

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