The Outgoing US Ambassador to Uganda Deborah Malac wants the Ministry of Health to uniformly concentrate on other silent epidemics that have hit the country besides only campaigning against  HIV and Malaria.

Malac listed a number of silent killers that she professed to have witnessed while in her line of duty still devastate communities in Uganda which include among others anthrax, pneumonia, hepatitis, sickle cell anemia.

She further advised the health ministry to adopt approaches similar to those used with Ebola and HIV to beat avoidable deaths in Uganda.

Ambassador Malac was speaking during a ceremony organized by the government on Tuesday evening, to bid her farewell after four years of duty in Uganda.

She, however, acknowledged that there has been progress made in the fight against HIV and is looking forward to celebrating the end of the HIV epidemic in Uganda by 2030.

Natalie E. Brown, the Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Eritrea, will replace Deborah Malac as the country’s ambassador to Uganda.

Malac’s major task as she came to Uganda was to help avoid complacency in regards to HIV/Aids after the progress made and also ensure that Uganda enforces tenuous peace agreements in war-torn South Sudan.

While bidding farewell to the President Yoweri Museveni at Statehouse Entebbe on Thursday last week, she informed the President that she would be retiring to private work in America after 39 years of service to her country as an envoy in a number of countries including Cameroon, South Africa, Senegal, Liberia, Ethiopia, and Uganda.