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Global Nutrition Report 2016

Few challenges facing the global community today match the scale of malnutrition, a condition that directly affects one in three people. Malnutrition manifests itself in many different ways: as poor child growth and development; as individuals who are skin and bone or prone to infection; as those wh...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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WHO Guidelines on use of Ferritin Concentrations to Assess Iron Status in Individuals and Populations

Accurate determination of iron status is crucial for diagnostic and screening purposes in the clinical setting and to guide public health interventions at the population level. In an individual patient, diagnosis of iron deficiency or overload will help guide management, including further investigat...

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Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Food Security and Nutrition Assessment Karamoja Region, June 2015

Nearly half of households are currently food insecure with either borderline or poor Food Consumption Score, mainly due to the lean season that has seen a decline in food stocks at household level and contributed to food price rises (therefore reducing economic ability to purchase food).

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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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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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Nutrition Annual Performance Report FY 2022/23

The nutrition annual performance report 2022/23 highlights the progress made by the Division��s objectives, challenges, lessons learnt and proposes mechanisms for improvement. The report presents the performance on key nutrition indicators stated in the Ministry of Health��s Nutrition M&E framework...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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The Guidebook Nutritional Anemia

Anemia is a widespread public health problem associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality, especially in pregnant women and young children. It is a disease with multiple causes, both nutritional (vitamin and mineral deficiencies) and non-nutritional (infection) that frequently co-occ...

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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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Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition : Guidelines

Malnutrition is the deficiency of protein,energy, as well as vitamins leading to loss of body fats and muscle tissues. It is a major public health concern in Uganda that affects both children and adults.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Nutrition Guidance for the general Population in the context of COVID-19 in Uganda

The current Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has greatly disrupted the ability to produce, process, distribute, obtain and consume healthy and nutritious foods by families and individuals, leading to significant changes in food prices, availability, access, and affordability. Such rapid chan...

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Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Nutrition Program Report - Monthly Health Facility, April 2023

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

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Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Food Security and Nutrition Assessment Karamoja Region

Nearly half of the households are currently food insecure with either Borderline or Poor Food Consumption Score, mainly due to the lean season that has seen a decline in food stocks at household level and contributed to food price rises (therefore reducing economic ability to purchase food).

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Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Global Nutrition report 2017

This report was produced by an Independent Expert Group empowered by the Global Nutrition Report Stakeholder Group. The writing was a collective effort by the group members, led by the co-chairs and supplemented by additional analysts and contributors

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Elimination of Iodine Deficiency disorders, A manual for health workers

Iodine, named after the Greek word for violet, was first observed as a violet vapour during the making of gunpowder at the beginning of the 19th century. Most of the Earth��s iodine exists in the ocean: sea water, fish and vegetation. It was present during the primordial development of the earth, bu...

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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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Risk Characterization of Microbiological Hazards in Food

Risk assessment of microbiological hazards in foods (Microbiological Risk Assessment - MRA) has been identified as a priority area of work by the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC). Following the work of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (CCFH), CAC adopted Principles and Guidelines for the Condu...

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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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Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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The management of nutrition in the major emergencies

The manual is inteneded to help health, nutrition and other health professionals involved in the management of major health emergencies with a nutrition component weather at local, national or international level.

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Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Global Nutrition Report 2014

This report highlights the global nature of malnutrition and the successes and bottlenecks in addressing it. Malnutrition continues to affect the lives of millions of children and women worldwide. Every country is affected by some form of nutrition problem. This calls for countries to put in place a...

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Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Uganda Nutrition Action Plan 2011 - 2016

Nutrition plays a crucial role in the socioeconomic development of any country. Malnutrition accounts for about 35 percent of deaths among children under 5 years old around the world. Stunting, severe wasting, and intrauterine growth retardation are the major contributors to child mortality, account...

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Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Informing Health Decisions and Actions

Mpox Surveillance Reporting Protocol for African Union Member States

Mpox Continental Preparedness and Response Plan for Africa

Mpox Technical Factsheet

Mpox Molecular Diagnostic Tests(RT-PCR)

Sub thematic area: 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.

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.