Currently, according to Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, Uganda is the third most malaria country globally with over 4000 people still being lost annually despite key interventions that the country has adopted including giving out free insecticide treated bed nets, malaria prophylaxis among pregnant women and Indoor Residual Spraying in districts with the high burden.
The Uganda
Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) is set to conduct a countrywide malaria indicator
survey with data collection scheduled to start on Sunday.
The results of
this survey which is intended to obtain national estimates of the prevalence of
malaria and its risk factors in addition to checking the levels of uptake of
malaria prevention initiatives will be released after three months.
Speaking at
the flag-off event at the Ministry of Health headquarters on Friday, UBOS
Executive Director Chris Mukiza revealed that the data collectors will be using
tablets and noted that they have put in place mechanisms to monitor and ensure
that correct data gathered is what is relied in real time to the central data
collection point.
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He urged
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Currently,
according to Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, Uganda is the third most
malaria country globally with over 4,000 people still being lost annually
despite key interventions that the country has adopted including giving out
free insecticide-treated bed nets, malaria prophylaxis among pregnant women and
Indoor Residual Spraying in districts with the high burden.
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Mukiza
reveals that the recent national household census revealed that 87% of
households in Uganda own free bed nets but Aceng says all the interventions that
the country has employed are only done piecemeal and cannot help eliminate
the disease whose current prevalence is estimated at nine percent.
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Aceng notes
that the results of this survey will help them establish the loopholes and find
better ways of bridging such that the country can start thinking about elimination
which she says is achievable if things are done right.
However,
Uganda last did such a survey in 2015 and yet according to Dr Charles Njuguna,
the Acting World Health Organization Uganda Representative such surveys should be
done more regularly as data is very important to determine which interventions
are working.
He
recommends that future surveys should focus on children above five years of
age.
