Improving Health Security & building IHR Core Capacities-Uganda (2020-2025)
The project “Improving Health Security and Building IHR Core Capabilities in Uganda (2020-2025)” is a five-year initiative aimed at enhancing Uganda’s ability to quickly detect, respond effectively and efficiently to health threats, and prevent the spread of diseases prone to epidemics, both human and zoonotic, within the country and across borders. This is in accordance with the International Health Regulations (IHR) of 2005.
The Baylor Foundation Uganda, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and with financial support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is implementing this project by carrying out the following activities:
Population Connectivity Across Borders (PoPCAB): Baylor-Uganda spearheaded the gathering and analyzing of information about population mobility for SUDV high-risk districts to inform interventions aimed to prevent, detect, and respond to the spread of diseases. Baylor-Uganda utilized this information to support contact tracing through 2,445 trained VHTs who followed up 4,000 (91.6%) contacts during the EVD […]
Laboratory Systems Strengthening Since 2007, Baylor Foundation Uganda, with funding from CDC and USAID, has been supporting the Ministry of Health to build a laboratory network with the capacity to provide diagnostic and surveillance services. Baylor Foundation Uganda uses the Strengthening Laboratory Management Towards Accreditation (SLMTA) approach to train labs to implement the Laboratory Quality […]
AMR surveillance The emergence and spread of drug-resistant pathogens that have acquired resistance to existing antimicrobial agents is a threat to human health and modern medicine and a risk to animal health and food production. Baylor Foundation Uganda supports the Ministry of Health to prevent and control the spread of AMR through strengthening AMR surveillance […]
Emergency Preparedness and Response Baylor-Uganda seconded staff to the National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC) and Department of Integrated Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Public Health Emergencies (IES&PHEs) to provide technical support. The team supported investigation, coordination, and response to 11 public health events. These events included Congo Crimean Haemorrhagic Fever, Anthrax, Tuberculosis, Yellow Fever, Rift Valley Fever, […]
The project currently operates at the national level, in the Rwenzori (9 districts, one city) and Bunyoro (8 districts, 1 city) regions, and other regions as the need arises, especially for emergency response work.
Project Objectives
Improve the prevention of avoidable epidemics;
Improve the ability to detect threats early; and
Strengthen the capacity to respond rapidly and effectively to public health threats of national and international concern.
