The Total Market Approach 2020/21-2025/26 strategy�elaborates how the multi-sectoral approach, especially�with increased involvement from the private sector, will�play a role in not only addressing fertility concerns�but also increasing access to quality comprehensive�family planning services and in...
Uganda��s Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) is currently estimated at 435/100,000 live births (Uganda Demographic and Health Survey [UDHS] 2005/6). This has declined from 527/100,000 live births estimated in 1990. The current maternal mortality ratio of 435 deaths per 100,000 live births translates to...
This wheel contains the medical eligibility criteria for starting use of contraceptive methods. It is based on Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 3rd edition (2004) and its 2008 Update, one of WHO��s evidence-based guidelines. It tells family planning providers if a woman presenting...
Integrated community case management (iCCM)�is part of a wider community health worker�(CHW) strategy, in which CHWs provide lifesaving�treatment for childhood killer diseases within 24�hours of the onset of symptoms. Trained CHWs are�supported, equipped, and supplied with�commodities to provide�Cur...
It has been 12 years since world leaders committed to Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4), which sets out to reduce the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.
MPDSR emphasizes continuous�identification and reporting of maternal�and perinatal deaths including zero�for none registered and utilising�that information to facilitate Quality�Improvement (QI) processes. The national�MPDSR annual report FY 2022/23 is a result�of concerted efforts of health workers...
Family planning (FP) is an essential component of health care provided during the antenatal period, immediately after delivery and during the first year postpartum (WHO 2009). Postpartum family planning (PPFP) is defined as the prevention of unintended pregnancy and closely spaced pregnancies throug...
This Family Planning (FP) Research and Learning Agenda presents a great opportunity for the country to tailor future research to respond to key FP evidence gaps; synthesize, package, and promote the use of existing evidence to ensure future investments are evidence-based; harmonize stakeholder effor...
Globally, reduction of maternal and new born mortality remains a high priority in the Sustainable Development targets as unfinished MDG agenda. In 2013, about 0.3 million women died as result of pregnancy related causes. Sub-Saharan Africa alone contributed more than half of these deaths. Uganda is...
This document is intended to provide guidance to non-specialist doctors providing obstetric and contraceptive surgery and the necessary anaesthetic services in small hospitals that are subject to constraints on personnel, equipment and drugs and where access to specialist services is limited.
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Children under five years of age bear a disproportionate share of the global burden of disease. While major gains have been made in reducing childhood mortality during previous decades, stagnation or even reversals of trends have been observed recent...
Uganda��s maternal mortality ratio (MMR) though on a reducing trend, it remains unacceptably high at 336 per 100,000 live births (UDHS 2016). The under-5 mortality rate has reduced from 90 (2011) to 64 per 1,000 live births (UDHS 2016). However, despite the reduction in child Mortality, the Neonatal...
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...
This Guide is a tool for clinical decision-making. The content is presented in a frame work of coloured flow charts supported by information and treatment charts which give further details of care. The framework is based on a syndromic approach whereby the skilled attendant identifies a limited num...
This handbook is written to help growth promoters in the community do their work well in their communities. It will guide you, the growth promoter, to help caregivers keep their children healthy. You will use it during your training to be a child growth promoter, and afterward have it to refer to as...
Pain in children is a public health concern of major significance in most parts of the world. Although the means and knowledge to relieve pain exists, children��s pain is often not recognized, is ignored or even denied. These guidelines address the pharmacological management of persisting pain in ch...
Unsafe abortion is entirely preventable. Yet, it remains a significant cause of maternal morbidity and mortality in much of the developing world. Over the past decade, the World Health Organization has developed a systematic approach to estimating the regional and global incidence of unsafe abortion...
The handbook provides a description of each indicator and how it is constructed and how it can be used; the minimum and/or maximum acceptable level (if appropriate); the background of the indicator; data collection and analysis; interpretation and presentation of the indicator; and suggestions for s...
This assessment report is the result of a combined effort of staff from the Uganda Ministry of Health, Maternal Child Health Technical Working Group-ETAT Steering Committee, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), USAID Maternal Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) Activity, World H...
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness
