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1.Which country is currently experiencing EBOLA outbreak?

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Maternal, Infant, Young Child and Adolescent Nutrition (MIYCAN) - Facilitator's Manual

The Health Facility training package aims to build the capacity of district level health�managers and health facility service providers to counsel women, adolescents, and�caregivers of children under-5 on appropriate maternal, infant, and young child and�adolescent nutrition practices. This Health F...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Nutritional care and support for patients with tuberculosis

Undernutrition increases the risk of tuberculosis (TB) and in turn TB can lead to malnutrition. Undernutrition is therefore highly prevalent among people with TB. It has been demonstrated that undernutrition is a risk factor for progression from TB infection to active TB disease and that undernutrit...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Nutrition Program Report - Monthly Health Facility, May 2023

This document is a statistical report highlighting the performance of the key nutrition program indicators for the month of May 2023.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Comprehensive Nutrition Care and Support Facility-Level Job Aids

The Ministry of Health would like to very sincerely thank the University Research Co., LLC (URC) Nulife Program, with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for the technical and financial support which was so essential for the development, printing and dissemina...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Nutrition And Health Assessment In Internally Displaced People's Camps

This assessment was conducted to assess the health and nutrition status in all the 53 IDP camps in former Gulu District. It covered all the 5 counties of former Gulu district which include; Omoro, Kilak, Nwoya, Aswa and Gulu Municipality.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Global Nutrition Report 2018

This report underlines two priorities that I see as key: breaking down silos and investing in new data. We are not going to make progress on nutrition or indeed wider sustainable development goals unless we address these two issues. I hope that those of us involved in the SUN Movement, especially th...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 141 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Nutrition Program Report - Monthly Health Facility, March 2023

This document is a statistical report highlighting the performance of key nutrition program indicators for the month of March 2023.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Guidelines on Optimal feeding of low birth weight infants in low-and middle-income countries 2011

Low birth weight (LBW) has been defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as weight at birth less than 2500 g. The global prevalence of LBW is 15.5%, which means that about 20.6 million such infants are born each year, 96.5% of them in developing countries. There is significant variation in LBW...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Nutrition Service Quality Assessment Tool for Health Facilities (NSQA)

The Nutrition Service Quality Assessment (NSQA 2021) Tool for health facilities is a result of the revision and expansion of the Nutrition Service Delivery Assessment tool (NSDA 2015) into a systems quality assessment tool for nutrition services at all health facility levels. The NSQA tool is specif...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Global Nutrition Report 2015

The Global Nutrition Report 2015 reminds us of the paramount importance of nutrition to human well-being and productivity. The underlying message of the report is that, unless governments, donors, and stakeholders commit to and make themselves accountable for improved nutrition in our societies, ach...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Nutrition and HIV/AIDS

The coexistence of high rates of malnutrition and HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa creates an additional challenge for nutritionists. Providing adequate nutrition at community and individual levels, even in the absence of HIV/AIDS, remains a problem. The new challenge calls for the acceleration...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Guiding principles for feeding infants and young children during emergencies

Meeting the specific nutritional requirements of infants and young children,1 including protecting, promoting and supporting optimal feeding practices (Annex 2), should be a routine part of any emergency relief response. Indeed, it should be at the centre of efforts to protect the right of affected...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Infant and young child feeding update

This publication is about infant nutrition. Adequate nutrition is critical to child health and development. The period from birth to two years of age is particulary because of the rapid growth and development that occurs during this time.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Presidential Initiative On Healthy Eating & Healthy Lifestyle

In Uganda, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are a public health problem. Although once considered the diseases of the affluent, it is noticeable that NCDs affect even those with low social economic status. The major shift in individuals�� health behaviours and lifestyles especially due to the rapid u...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling and Support to Health Service Delivery - Facilitators Manual

The Ministry of Health and development partners have provided targeted nutrition interventions to selected�districts and health facilities using the Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support (NACS) approach in�services for people living with HIV (PLHIV).�The approach strengthens�the capacity of...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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The Uganda Food and Nutrition Policy 2003

The Uganda Food and Nutrition Policy has been formulated within the context of the overall national development policy objective of eradicating poverty as spelt out in the Poverty Eradiation Action Plan (PEAP), and is in consonance with other policies already formulated by government

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Integrating Nutrition Assessment Counselling and Support (NACS) into health service delivery - Reference Manual

The Ministry of Health and development partners have provided targeted nutrition interventions to selected�districts and health facilities using the nutrition assessment, counselling, and support (NACS) approach in�services for people living with HIV (PLHIV).�The NACS approach strengthens the broade...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Guidelines for the inpatient treatment of severely malnourished children

Every year some 10.6 million children die before they reach their fifth birthday. Seven out of every 10 of these deaths are due to diarrhoea, pneumonia, measles, malaria or malnutrition. The WHO manual Management of Severe Malnutrition: a manual for physicians and other senior health workers and the...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Nutrition During Pregnancy And Breastfeeding

Safe preparation of food HIV and nutrition Eat a variety of foods What supplements do you need? Pregnant and breastfeeding women need to

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Guidelines on Nutrition Survey Methodology in Uganda

Uganda has been highlighted as basically meeting its national food supply needs, yet it still has a large proportion of children who are malnourished. Successive demographic and health surveys show little change in nutritional status. Moreover, this is against appreciable gains in economic growth in...

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Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Did you know about these facts?

Malaria

Malaria is endemic in 42 African countries & more than 90% of it's clinical cases across the world every year are in Africa.

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HIV/AIDS

Africa has 11% of the world’s population & 60% of people with HIV/AIDS.

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NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES

These such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and injuries represented 27% of the total burden of disease in Africa.

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Did you know about these facts?

Malaria

Malaria is endemic in 42 African countries & more than 90% of it's clinical cases across the world every year are in Africa.

HIV/AIDS

Africa has 11% of the world’s population & 60% of people with HIV/AIDS.

NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES

These such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and injuries represented 27% of the total burden of disease in Africa.