Kenneth Kabagambe holds a bachelor of Arts Social Science from Makerere University Kampala. He is the Founding Executive Director of the National Organization for People Living with Hepatitis B (NOPLHB) the only patient driven Non-Governmental Organization advocating for the rights of Hepatitis B patients in Uganda. He is also a member of the Hepatitis Technical Working Committee of the Ministry of Health. Kenneth is also the Executive Board Member for the African Region at the World Hepatitis Alliance. Kenneth is also the Vice President for the African Liver Patients Associations (ALPA). Kenneth has attended high level consultancy workshops by WHO on Viral Hepatitis. Kenneth was one of the judges during the WHO Hepatitis testing innovation contest that emerged into the Hepatitis B and C testing guidelines. He is also a Patient Advisory Council Member of Hepatitis Foundation International U.S.A. Kenneth has 7 years extensive patient experience in the field of Viral Hepatitis and has spent most of his entire life working on advocating for patients’ rights in accessing quality diagnosis, care and treatment in Uganda and across the region through his organization he founded in 2012. Kenneth is the initiator of the African Hepatitis Summit 2019 and he coordinated this high-level meeting in Kampala that brought over 400 delegates from across Africa and beyond. Kenneth aims to strengthen the patient voice in Africa and across the global in recognizing the growing burden of Viral Hepatitis which now claims more people than HIV/AIDS.
