Dear TechNet community,
The World Bank is hosting a webinar on June 17th, 2025, highlighting the key achievements during Uganda's HPV scale up campaign in the 12 poorly performing districts and its linkage to the broader adolescent health improvement strategy. In case this is of interest, I thought I’d share the invitation link if you’d like to pass it along to your networks! Simultaneous translation in French, English and Portuguese will be provided.
🗓️ DETAILS:
Date and Time: June 17th, 2025 | 3:30PM Kampala, Uganda time (GMT+3)/ 8:30AM Washington DC time (GMT-4)
Duration: 90 minutes
Registration Link: https://worldbankgroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0WjEi3eXRF-z9cAPNaC6VA#/registration
*Please register via Zoom, which will send you a confirmation email with the access link. If you don’t receive the access link after registering, please check your Spam or Junkmail folders.
BACKGROUND
Uganda has the seventh-highest incidence rate of cervical cancer globally, and the second highest in East Africa. Cervical cancer ranks as the first most frequent cancer among women in Uganda and the first most frequent cancer among women between 15 and 44 years of age (ICO/IARC Information Centre 2023). The main cause of CC among women is persistent infections with HPV on the cervix. The prevalence of HPV infections among women in Uganda is one of the highest at 33.6%. Therefore, HPV vaccination among adolescent girls is imperative in achieving group immunity and a reduction in the incidence of CC in Uganda in the future.
In 2024, Uganda received support from the Gates Foundation and GFF to implement catalytic activities to scale up HPV vaccination in 12 poorly performing districts. This was done under three themes: Policy dialogue and engagement, Knowledge Products and Technical Assistance. Some key deliverables out of this support included national and sub national multi-sectoral engagements, a deep dive study on the barriers to HPV vaccination uptake in the 12 poorly performing districts and a pilot on a digital dashboard prototype to support real time HPV data collection. The MoH was also supported by the Trust Fund and GFF to develop an adolescent Health Strategy that would guide adolescent health service delivery in the country. With this background, in this webinar, the Ministry of Health is glad to share the key activities implemented during the HPV scale up campaign in the 12 poorly performing districts and its linkage to the broader adolescent health improvement strategy.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
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PRESENTER: MoH Official, National Expanded Program on Immunization (UNEPI), Ministry of Health, Uganda Dr. Ampeire Immaculate is a Ugandan medical doctor working with the Ministry of Health since 2011. She holds a Master of Science in Epidemiology and biostatistics. She develops policies, guidelines, planning, coordination with partners, stakeholders and districts, supportive supervision, and capacity building on immunization. She is a result oriented Senior Medical Officer and an immunization champion at the Uganda National Expanded Program on Immunization (UNEPI) at the Ministry of Health. Her duties involve; conducting planning meetings, to engage and orient stakeholders and partners to review performance based on program assessments and research, to identify mitigation measures on the five operational components of immunization; management, service delivery, Vaccine Preventable Diseases surveillance, communication, logistics and cold chain for the last 10 years. She has also gained experience designing and implementing research and/or conducting policy analysis, project/program management and/or monitoring and evaluation. She has been part of Uganda’s success story of introduction of over five new vaccines into Uganda’s routine immunization program (including HPV) and over 10 mass vaccination campaigns. |
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PRESENTER: Dr. Amongin is a health scientist with over 20 years’ progressive experience in Reproductive Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH), research, clinical care, programming, and policy formulation. With specialization in Public Health and Obstetrics and Gynecology, her PhD research focused on understanding the trends and trajectories in repeat adolescent birth in Uganda. Dr Amongin directly supports programming, policy generation and dissemination at the Ministry of Health Uganda. Currently, Dinah provides technical assistance to the ADH Division of the MoH in enhancing multi-sectoral collaboration for ADH programming. Dr Amongin’s career goal is to contribute to the generation and implementation of cost-effective evidence-based interventions that address Uganda’s priority public health challenges. |
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MODERATOR: Edith is a Ugandan female with a master’s degree in Gender Globalization and Human rights from the National University of Ireland Galway and a Postgraduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation. She has a wealth of experience in social development, in the sectors of Health, Education, Production and Transport. She has worked with the government, private sector, and civil society organizations. She is enthusiastic about social inclusion and has dedicated a larger part of her career to gender mainstreaming and Women's human rights. She is currently a Senior Girls and Women's Empowerment Specialist at the World Bank, who supports Task Teams in the Human Capital Development sectors, HNP, Education and Social Protection. Edith currently coordinates HPV Trust fund activities in Uganda, Kenya, Burundi and DRC. Edith supports countries to ensure the issues of girls and women are brought to the fore front throughout the life stages of projects. Edith hopes to contribute towards SDG 5, and dreams of a time where there will be an enabling environment for all girls and women to thrive to their fullest potential. |