Health ministry calls for mass drug administration to fight malaria

She said administering anti-malaria drugs in a mass campaign will stem the transmission of the plasmodium parasite.

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Zhang Lizhong (3rd left) the Chinese ambassador to Uganda handing over 500,000 packs of anti-malaria medicine to health minister Jane Ruth Aceng who was accompanied by the finance minister Matia Kasaija among other health officials at NMS stores in Kajjansi on Friday. Photo by Julius Luwemba

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Health minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng has said mass drug administration of anti-malaria medicine is one sure way of kicking malaria out of Uganda and the region at

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