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Training Oncology Specialists to Serve East Africa

Read how our partnership with the Uganda Cancer Institute is empowering East African healthcare professionals to tackle the region's growing cancer burden.

Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI), located in the nation’s capital Kampala, is East Africa's center of excellence for oncology. Since 1967 UCI has led the nation’s oncology services and the training of oncology specialists to care for patients with cancer in Uganda and the wider East African community.

Sanofi’s Global Health Unit is providing support to 14 oncology training fellowship positions at UCI. September 2024 saw the second round of appointments completed, and the news that all 14 positions are now filled. Training is taking place in a range of specialties: Gynaecological Oncology, Adult Hematological Oncology, Radiation Oncology, and Paediatric Oncology, with eleven fellows from Uganda, two from Tanzania and one from Malawi.

Pediatric Oncology Fellow Dr Yvonne Rose Bwikizo attests to the individual impact: “The support that Sanofi has been sending has been a great help to focus on my studies, to serve the patients before me”. 

Upon completion, all the newly trained specialists will take up positions in the East African Community, utilising their expertise to increase the capacity of the health services to address the growing burden of cancer in the region. This is especially so in Uganda, where additional Oncologists are needed to staff the four new regional cancer centers being developed in major cities.

 

MAT-GLB-2304595 (v5.0) August 2025