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He relocated to Kampala and was hired by Dr Dickson Opulu, as a medical officer to work at the Uganda Workers’ Treatment Centre in Kampala and Jinja. While there, he became involved in the formulation of national and global HIV treatment policy for workers. He began collaboration with Makerere University and the Joint Clinical Research Centre, on HIV treatment and prevention. From 2010 until 2013, Obuku served at the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine as a technical adviser on tuberculosis control.

In 2012, Obuku joined the Uganda Medical Association. The following year, he was elected as publicity and mobilisation secretary. He was later elected unopposed as secretary general. On 9 September 2017 at Hotel Africana, he was elected president for the next two years.

in 2009, he graduated with a Master of Science in Clinical Trials, from the London School of Tropical Medicine, where he had studied on a scholarship awarded by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership. As of December 2019, he is pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Health Policy in a joint program between Makerere University College of Health Sciences, in Uganda and McMaster University in Canada.

Ekwaro attended nursery and primary schools in Kenya. In 1992, he returned to Uganda and was enrolled into St. Mary's College Kisubi, graduating in 1997 with a High School Diploma (A-Level Certificate). He entered Makerere University in 1998 on scholarship from the National Council of Sports, to study human medicine and play basketball. In 2003, he graduated from Makerere with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. He quit playing professional basketball for the Falcon Guards due to the demands of studying for a medical degree.

Obuku is the son of Teo Kibirige Obuku, a nurse and the late Dr. John Brian Obuku, a physician. His father hails from present-day Oyam District, while his mother is from southwestern Uganda. He was born in February 1978 at Victoria Hospital, in the city of Kisumu in Kenya at a time when the family had fled Idi Amin's regime in Uganda. Ekwaro is the third-born in a family of seven children.