National Action Plan for Health Security 2019 - 2023.

The National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) is a national sectoral plan of Uganda for the period 2019-2023. Its main objective is to make communities in Uganda Healthy, wealthy and resilient.
To this end, it sets out measures to strengthen Uganda’s health security capacity and community resilience against public health threats in compliance with International Health Regulations (2005).
More in detail, the Plan has the objective to strengthen the country’s capacity to prevent, detect and respond to public health threats; to strengthen the collaboration and coordination mechanism for NAPHS implementation through application of multi-sectoral and one health approaches; to map and align existing and potential domestic and external financing to support NAPHS implementation.
The principles guiding the implementation of the Plan are: The One Health Approach: as the increasing of human and animal interactions are the major drivers of emergence of zoonotic diseases and anti-microbial resistance, multidisciplinary collaboration by human, animal and environmental health experts to prevent and control such diseases or events becomes essential; Multi-sectoral approach: building the International Health Regulations core capacities requires collaboration and shared responsibility among multiple sectors. Effective partnerships and cooperation among the different ministries is then required throughout implementation; Collective responsibility: addressing public health threats should be based on values of solidarity, humanity and sustainable development. Health security is a collective responsibility for all stakeholders including government, civil society, private sector and the general population; Collaboration and Partnerships: health security requires strong collaboration, partnerships and information sharing with actors within and outside the country’s borders.
NAPHS implementation shall use an all government approach drawing on the Public Private Partnership linkages. Resources will be integrated in the sector budgets and additional resources mobilized from within government and partners.