Arrived in Barcelona this morning to attend the Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia starting tomorrow until Friday 31 January. Brainstorming and having a nice evening in Barcelona with Team #Uganda.

Interesting perspective to tackling Pneumonia - The Pneumonia wheel as shared by Stefan Peterson,UNICEF #StopPneumonka

At the Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia in Barcelona. Every breath counts. Let's join hands to end preventable pneumonia deaths. We made a promise to the world #StopPneumonia

With our Minister of Health in Barcelona

Great group of 12 Hlth Ministers, partner organisations and technical partners for the #FightingForBreath #StopPneumonia summit

I have decided to reconvene the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on the new #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) tomorrow to advise me on whether the current outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.

Wrapped by Day one, last evening with good food and good company, laughter, fun and conversations centered on achieving universal health coverage, ending childhood Pneumonia. #TeamEastAfrica 💪🏾

At the health financing session. Discussing the need to increase domestic funding for child health as well as track donor inflows to the same

UNICEF Uganda Flavia Mpanga Kaggwa urges delegates to emphasize hand washing and water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) as part of the Pneumonia prevention measures. “We need to talk about WASH more, we can prevent Pneumonia, Ebola and now #Coronavirus” #StopPneumonia

#Cancer is not cancel! My brother now 65 yrs, developed #Oesophageal Carcinoma in Oct 1999, almost 20 years back. Thanks to family and doctors he was completely cured as it was diagnosed early, no metastasis. There is always hope. #CancerAwareness #WorldCancerDay

Dr Lukwiya. He died at 1:20 am on Tuesday, 5 December 2000 of Ebola, an epidemic he was instrumental in identifying and fighting. He reportedly contracted the virus from Simon Ajok, a nurse he had trained to care for Ebola patients. Before his death, he asked to be isolated.

Some of the best spray #drones. You can deploy them to intercept the #LocustsInUganda wherever they are, map out the area and flush them out like a whirlwind. We have a team of talented Ugandan drone pilots who can operate these machines with ease.

We must take bullying seriously. #WeStandWithQuaden & children around the world who are being relentlessly harassed. Every child deserves to grow up in a safe environment, be encouraged to speak out and provided with support when they need it. #ENDviolence bbc.com/news/world-aus…

UAU 277Q parks at the newly introduced ABSA bank and blocks me a client for 20 mins. I am forced to make noise at the reception and she hands over the key to security to remove the car. She was allegedly attending a meeting. Please work on your customer care!

Smoking in public is prohibited under the law in Uganda. While having a drink at Stone Haven on Plot 8 Malcomx, some unpleasant people started smoking. The manager could not reprimand them! We did our best to stop them but failed. NEMA please help. This is not acceptable

Happening now! UNICEF Uganda team meets Parliament of Uganda Budgets Committee to discuss among other issues, social sector financing trends and avenues to make the budget more relevant #ForEveryChild. #InvestInUGchildren

UNICEF Uganda commends Parliament of Uganda for opening up space to listen to different stakeholders on their views on the budgets as this is the only way to make budgets relevant for the people, and ensure progress can be made towards results, especially for children.

With The country’s population growing at 3%, more than 1.5 million newborns each year and more than half (53.1%) of the whole population being children below 18 years , it's now more than ever, time to design a budget mainly focused on sectors that support children.