Ebola: Tidleg tiltak - tidleg siger

Uganda had their first outbreak of ebola in 2000 in the Northern part of the country in middle of civil unrest with the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels. Their second outbreak in 2007 was of a previously unknown virus strain that was initially not recognised by the tests. Their third epidemic in 2011 only had one single case with no spread of the virus.

How do you obtain such a successful response in a low-resource country like Uganda? What can we learn from this for ongoing and future outbreaks? The experiences from these three epidemics have recently been presented in a doctoral thesis at the University of Bergen by Dr Samuel Okware who is a medical doctor with 30 years’ experience as a public health specialist in the Ministry of Health of Uganda and who coordinated the national response against ebola.

This lecture is free and open for all, as all our events.

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