May 1, 2026

CAMNHA Uganda Board of Directors Member Joy Bogere sharing the CAMNHA T-Shirt. Joy serves as a Registered Midwife in Jinja City — practicing in this role since 1996. She worked with private sector until 2005 when she obtained a government job and was posted at the Mpumudde HCIV as a Nursing officer heading the Midwifery Department. In 2017, she was transferred to Walukuba HCIV in the Midwifery department and continued with these leadership roles. Her working experience now includes 20 years in the Ugandan government. In 2024-2025, she achieved a post graduate diploma in Medical Education at the Health Tutors College at Makerere University.  In 2020-2021, she achieved a basic diploma in health leadership and management from the Mulago Uganda Institute of Allied Health Science and Management. In 2015-2017, she achieved a Bachelor’s Degree in Midwifery from the Agha Khan University Kampala Campus.  In 2013, she achieved a Diploma in Paediatrics and Child Health Nursing from the Jinja School of Nursing and Midwifery. 

In 1993-1996, she achieved a Diploma in Midwifery from the Mulago School of Nursing and Midwifery. She has worked in both rural and urban settings — offering antenatal care, maternity (normal deliveries and post-operative care), family planning, post-natal care, nutritional counselling, health education and promotion, HIV counselling and testing for infants exposed to HIV among others. She is a mentor and preceptor to the student nurses and midwives. Since 2020, she has conducted examinations for student nurses and midwives since as an Examiner for Uganda Nurses and Midwives Examination Board (UNMEB).