1 Juliet Nabyonga is the regional advisor on health systems partnerships, monitoring, and evaluation, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa, Cite de Djoue, Post Office Box 6, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.Jackson Orem is the Director and Senior Consultant (Oncology) at the Uganda Cancer Institute, Upper Mulago Hill Rd, Post Office Box 3935, Kampala, Uganda; a Member at The Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; and an Honorary Lecturer at Makerere University School of Medicine, Kampala, Uganda. E-mail: jorem@mucwru.or.ug.