First Lady and Minister of Education Janet Museveni has stressed the need to strengthen the country’s research capacity in addressing health challenges among children and adolescents.
According to Ms Museveni, children and adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Uganda, face numerous challenges that hinder their development and future opportunities.
In her speech delivered by Dr Jane Egau, the undersecretary in the Ministry of Education, the first lady said that there is a need to build research capacity to address health disparities affecting adolescents and their families, which have worsened HIV prevalence and school dropouts.
This was during the 2024 Forum on Child and Adolescents Global Health Research and Capacity Building organised by the International Centre for Child Health and Development (ICHAD) in Masaka City last week.
Jane Ruth Aceng, the minister of Health, in her remarks delivered by Dr John Baptist Waniaye, said the government values evidence-based research in the process of formulating policies to address existing gaps in health and other sectors.
However, she expressed a need to build partnerships locally and globally aiming at strengthening a health system that responds to the existing gaps.
