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New Vision (Kampala) - November 17, 2003
Joyce Namutebi
He said $51.8m would go to fighting AIDS, S$10.6m to TB, and $35m to combat malaria. All the money is for three years.
Lwamafa was on Tuesday giving an update on the Uganda GFATM countyy progress during the National Health Assembly held in Kampala.
He told The New Vision that Uganda would soon receive the first instalment of $20m.
Uganda pledged $2m to the Fund at a UN special session in June 2001 in New York.
GFATM is an independent public-private partnership with a mandate to raise and disburse funds to fight the three diseases.
The Minister of Health, Jim Muhwezi, said a lot of money was being spent on preventable diseases like cholera and typhoid due to poor sanitation.
He said 70% of the major causes of illness in Uganda were preventable and that almost 70% of the budget could be avoided if preventive measures were applied.
He said the Government might come up with a law on community mobilisation.
"The Government will get powers to go to districts if the districts are not performing as per plan," he said.
He directed local governments to pass bylaws to deal with health issues.
Muhwezi said the health sector did not register much improvement in reproductive health.
He said family planning services would be boosted to check the high population growth rate threatening to outstrip the country's economic growth.
The minister revealed that the budget allocation to health would grow from the current sh218b to about sh280b next year.
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