Uganda


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REGIONAL GRANTS
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FELLOWSHIPS
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GLOBAL PROJECTS
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  • Uganda National Health Laboratory Service | Active | Human health
  • Makarere University College of Health Sciences | Active | Human health
  • National Animal Disease Diagnostic Epidemiology Centre | Active | Veterinary
  • Microbiology Research Laboratory - COVAB, Makerere University | Active | Veterinary
  • Mbarara University of Science and Technology and Mbarara National Referral Hospital | Active | Human health
  • Department of Medical Microbiology, Mbarara University of Science & Technology | Active | Human health
  • Mbarara Regional Referral Veterinary Laboratory | Active | Veterinary
  • Arua Regional Referral Hospital | Active | Human health
  • Arua Regional Veterinary Lab | Active | Veterinary
  • Mbale Regional Referral Hospital | Active | Human health
  • Mbale Regional Veterinary Lab | Active | Veterinary
  • Kabale Regional Referral Hospital | Active | Human health
  • Masaka Regional referal hospital laboratory | Active | Human health
  • Jinja Regional referal hospital Laboratory | Active | Human health
  • Soroti Regional referal hospital Laboratory | Active | Human health
  • Lira Regional referal hospital Laboratory | Active | Human health
  • Gulu Regional referal hospital Laboratory | Active | Human health
  • Gulu Regional Veterinary Lab | Active | Human health

AMR Governance Structure

Uganda National AMR Committee

Contributing Ministries: Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries, Water and Environment; Ministry of Health; Ministry of Water and the Environment

AMR Action Plan

The Government of Uganda created a National Strategy for AMR and an AMR Surveillance Plan, following a situational analysis on AMR published by the Uganda National Academy of Sciences in 2015. A National Action Plan on AMR has been drafted, modelled on the WHO and FAO global strategies to combat AMR. Uganda has also published a One Health Strategic Action Plan, which includes work to address AMR.

Fleming Fund Policy Brief: summarising the cost of AMR surveillance in Uganda.

Supporting the Ugandan government's commitment to build an effective AMR surveillance system, this Brief provides a snapshot of the Fleming Fund’s study of the system’s costs and expected benefits of a coordinated human-animal-environmental AMR surveillance policy (see below).

Uganda's Request for Proposals is available here

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Fleming Fund Country Brief: Uganda

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Policy Brief: the cost of AMR surveillance in Uganda

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