The minister of Health, Ruth Aceng has revealed that the international donors have told government they will no longer be funding malaria projects in Uganda.
Appearing before Parliament’s Health Committee, Aceng said donors have told government to raise funding from internal or other sources.
“Our partners are no longer willing to increase any more funding for malaria, they have all levelled off. We were invited to Cameroon recently, I was there in person and we were told the world has moved on to climate change issues, global health security and to wars in Ukraine and Israel. So we were told to sign a declaration that each of the 10 high burden countries will look for their own domestic resources and bring their malaria pandemics or epidemics to an end by themselves. So, we aren’t looking for any additional increase of resources for malaria, it has to be domestic resources,” said Aceng.
Donors contibute at least $100 million per annum to Uganda’s fight against malaria according to statistics from the ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development.