Rife with understaffed hospitals, corrupt licensing and people who claim to be doctors, the health system struggles to protect patients from deadly medical fraud.
Elon Musk, an unelected US official leading budget cuts, claims funding to contain Uganda's Ebola outbreak "accidentally" ended temporarily. Ugandan officials say the US still offers support, but health workers argue that US help is gone.
Uganda hosts 1.8 million refugees and asylum-seekers, the largest number of any African country. But without US funding, basic services like food distribution are likely to end.