Raymond Baguma
2 October 2008
Kampala — The Vice-President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, has hailed Case Western Reserve University, a US university, for contributing towards the development of Uganda's health care system.
Bukenya said the university had trained Uganda's scientists for the last 20 years.
He was speaking during the celebrations to mark 20 years of Collaboration between the university, the Joint Clinical Research Centre, Makerere University, Mulago Hospital and the Ministry of Health at Hotel Africana, Kampala, on Wednesday.
"The collaboration has been crucial in developing science and technology in Uganda," Bukenya said.
He said the partnership had been initiated when the public infrastructure was down and the health system was bad.
"The foundation of the collaboration was strong and based on devotion," Bukenya said.
He said the scientists involved had reduced Uganda's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate from about 30% during the 1980s, to the current 7%.
Bukenya thanked the National Institute of Health and the Centre for Disease Control for funding the collaboration.
Prof. Roy Mugerwa said over 50 Ugandan scientists had been trained since the collaboration begun.
Prof. Richard Walsh, the chairman of the department of medicine at the Case Western Reserve University said the institution was researching on tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and associated diseases. He added that future research would be expanded to include heart diseases.
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