Jane Aceng
Ugandan pediatrician and politician
Jane Ruth Aceng (born 11 May 1968) is a Ugandan pediatrician and politician. She is the Minister of Health in the Cabinet of Uganda. She was appointed to that position on 6 June 2016.Before that, from June 2011 until June 2016, she served as the Director General of Medical Services in the Ugandan Ministry of Health.
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edit- We expanded laboratory capacity to the extent that we have several mobile laboratories that we can deploy anywhere at any time
- When communities are empowered, they do miracles!”
- Partners come in with resources, not only financial resources but also technical resources and knowledge that can contribute to controlling epidemics in real-time.”
- Time matters! Time of reporting, the time of detection, and the time of declaration.”
- To contain it means you have to sensitise the populations, sensitise the country, and let them understand why you are implementing certain interventions to avoid exporting the virus.”
- One of the other best practices that I implore all the other countries to adopt is the Accountability Forum, where we come together as the country in leadership with all the partners to give accountability for our actions on the ground and our resources mobilised.”
- We have to take not that epidemics will continue to occur in Africa