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Uganda Fails to Meet Health Targets.

New Vision (Uganda)

| September 21, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 2008 AllAfrica Global Media. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Joyce Namutebi

UGANDA and other sub-Saharan African countries, except Malawi, have not yet reached the agreed target of devoting at least 15% of their national budgets to health, the health minister has said.

Steven Mallinga appealed to Parliament to increase the health budget to 15% to enable the ministry meet its obligations.

His appeal was backed by Dr. Jotham Musinguzi, the regional director of Partners in Population and Development Africa Region Office (PPD ARO).

Mallinga and Musinguzi told the regional meeting of parliamentary committees on Health in Eastern and Southern Africa at the …

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