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Uganda to Get Sh19.8b Yearly for Immunisation

New Vision (Kampala)

May 6, 2003
Posted to the web May 6, 2003

Kampala

THE government is to receive US$10m annually to facilitate immunisation activities, reports Mariam Nalunkuuma.

The funds will be provided by the Global Alliance Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) organisation.

"Uganda will be receiving US$10m each year for five years to provide additional vaccines, safety injectionrelated material and strengthen the infrastructure under the health sector," the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunisation (UNEPI) coordinator, Dr. Issa Makumbi, said yesterday.

State minister for primary healthcare Beatrice Wabudeya said at the opening of a five-day financial sustainability plan workshop at Hotel Africana Kampala, "GAVI has become a major partner in the immunisation programme and has facilitated Uganda in the introduction of pentavalent vaccines," Wabudeya said.

She said Uganda was about to eradicate polio since there has been no reported case since 1997.

The routine programme offers vaccines against the six killer diseases and Haemophilus influenza B (which causes meningitis and pneumonia).

Wabudeya said Uganda has a high disease burden of which 75% is preventable but has got a big toll on social economic development.

"Immunisation is a critical intervention for child survival and poverty eradication and that is why Uganda is committed to fully immunising every child," she said.
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