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COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (08 December 2021)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (08 December 2021) offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, N...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-08-december-2021/...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 157 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Advocacy and Communication Strategy for the Biosafety and Biosecurity Legal Framework

This effort also assists Member States in complying with international requirements and regulations, such as the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005), the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), and United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540.To ensure a comprehensive and sustainab...

https://africacdc.org/download/advocacy-and-communication-strategy-for-the-biosafety-and-biosecurity...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 147 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Reproductive Health | Strategic Priorities 2022-2026

In 2006, the Special Session of African Union Health Ministers adopted the Maputo Plan of Action for implementing the Continental Policy Framework on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), which expired at the end of 2015. The goal was for all stakeholders and partners to join forces and...

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cdc-reproductive-health-strategic-priorities-2022-2026/?ind=17...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 165 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Certified African Regional professionals: Level 1 Biorisk Management

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiative was launched by the Africa CDC in April 2019 with the aim of strengthening the African Union (AU) Member States’ biosafety and biosecurity systems and enabling them to comply with national and int...

https://africacdc.org/download/certified-african-regional-professionals-level-1-biorisk-management/?...
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Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Mastercard Foundation: Saving Lives and Livelihoods Newsletter, April 2023

Currently, 14 African nations have vaccinated 70 percent of their eligible population with the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the WHO Tanzania and Sao Tome and Principe have fully vaccinated their populations, while Botswana has vaccinated 94 percent Over 90 percent of the eligible population have a...

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cdc-mastercard-foundation-saving-lives-and-livelihoods-newslet...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 128 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Health Systems Performance Assessment Debates, Methods and Empiricism

High quality scientific evidence is increasingly available to help the providers of health care make decisions about what types of investigations to order for an individual patient, and how to treat any health problems that are identified. ��Evidence-based medicine�� has been facilitated by the avai...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Health%20systems%20performance%20assessmen...
Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 19 hours ago 139 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Pocket book of hospital care for children : Guidelines for the management of common illnesses, 2013 edition.

The Pocket book is part of a series of tools for improving the quality of care for severely ill children and is consistent with the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) guidelines for outpatient management of sick children. It is for use by doctors, senior nurses and other senior health...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Pocket%20book%20of%20Hospital%20care%20for...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 126 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update 26 May 2020

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – 26 May 2020 offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-26-may-2020/?ind=...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 18 hours ago 132 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa Regulatory Taskforce has Endorsed the Emergency Used Listing for Two Versions of the AstraZeneca-Oxford Vaccine

In order to properly guide Member States, the Africa Regulatory Taskforce has developed a framework (https://africacdc.org/download/guidance-on-emergency-expedited-regulatory-authorisation-and-access-to-covid-19-vaccines-in-africa/) for market authorisation of COVID-19 vaccines, which include three...

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-regulatory-taskforce-has-endorsed-the-emergency-used-listing-f...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 142 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (16 June 2020)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (16 June 2020) offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, North...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-16-june-2020/?ind...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 156 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Working with men for HIV prevention and care

This document has been produced in order to help those working with men, specifically in the field of HIV prevention as well as more broadly in the areas of improved sexual and reproductive health.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Working%20with%20men%20for%20HIV%20prevent...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 18 hours ago 178 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Critical Role of Community Health Workers in COVID-19 Vaccine Roll Out

The document titled The Critical Role of Community Health Workers in COVID-19 Vaccine Roll Out offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa,...

https://africacdc.org/download/the-critical-role-of-community-health-workers-in-covid-19-vaccine-rol...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 130 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Position Statement on transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals Africa CDC

The document titled Position Statement on transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals – Africa CDC offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges wit...

https://africacdc.org/download/position-statement-on-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-by-pre-asymptomatic-...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 139 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Annual Progress Report 2018

The document titled Africa CDC Annual Progress Report 2018 offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa, W...

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cdc-annual-progress-report-2018/?ind=1568022169265&filename=Af...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 126 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Poliomyelitis

Strong progress continues to be made since the Health Assembly called for the worldwide eradication of poliomyelitis in 1988.2 At the time, poliomyelitis was endemic in more than 125 countries around the world and more than 350 000 children a year were paralysed for life by poliovirus. Today, transm...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Poliomyelitis.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 160 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Guidelines on Tuberculosis Infection Prevention and Control 2019 update

Worldwide, tuberculosis (TB) continues to be the most important cause of death from a single infectious microorganism.1 Although recent decades have witnessed increased efforts in the fight to end TB, fundamental gaps are hampering these efforts, particularly in resource-constrained settings and in...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/WHO%20Guidelines%20on%20Tuberculosis%20Inf...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 148 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (16 February 2022)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (16 February 2022) offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, N...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-16-february-2022/...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Global AIDS Response Progress Reporting 2015

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to national AIDS programmes and partners actively involved in the country response to AIDS on use of core indicators to measure and report on the national response.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Global%20AIDS%20Response%20Progress%20repo...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 142 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Risk assessments of Salmonella in eggs and broiler chickens

FAO and WHO undertook a risk assessment of Salmonella in eggs and broiler chickens in response to requests for expert advice on this issue from their member countries and from the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Guidance on this issue is needed, as salmonellosis is a leading cause of foodborne illnes...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Risk%20Assessments%20of%20Salmonella%20in%...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 166 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

PERC: Biweekly Report (22 December 04 January 2021)

As Africa’s second wave of COVID-19 cases surpasses the height of its first, African Union (AU) Member States across the continent have reinstated measures to control the spread of the virus. Unlike in April and May, most AU Member States have avoided complete lockdowns, and PHSMs put in place today...

https://africacdc.org/download/perc-biweekly-report-22-december-04-january-2020/?ind=1610196322379&f...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 122 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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