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Guidance for conducting an early action review (EAR): rapid performance improvement for outbreak detection and response

This guidance for conducting early action reviews (EARs) results from a shared vision of the importance of collective learning during and following a public health event. That vision, and the close collaboration that led to the development of these resources, is shared among the World Health Organiz...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/WHO-WPE-HSP-CER-2023.1-eng.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 131 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Uganda National Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey, 2014-2015 Survey Report

Uganda faces a high burden of tuberculosis (TB), but accurate estimates of the burden of TB in the country were unavailable. A national prevalence survey was therefore conducted from October 2014 to July 2015 to achieve the primary objective of estimating the prevalence of bacteriologically confirme...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Uganda%20National%20TB%20Prevalence%20Surv...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 130 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Global Plan to End TB 2016 -2020

Measured by the numbers of people who die each year, tuberculosis (TB) is the world��s deadliest infectious disease. Transmitted through the air and primarily targeting the lungs, this disease caused by a bacterial infection claims three lives every minute.1,2 In 2014, more than 9 million people bec...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Global%20Plan%20to%20end%20TB%202016-2020....
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 122 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Review of the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework

The PIP Framework aims to balance virus sharing with benefit sharing on an equal footing. Advances in vaccine, antiviral and diagnostic technology alone are not enough to protect a world against a pandemic. Whereas access to health services and products remains unequal around the world, the influenz...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Pandemic%20influenza%20preparedness%20revi...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 126 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: 1 day ago 133 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Ending TB in the Sustainable Development era: A multisectoral response 2017

The WHO Global Ministerial Conference on Ending TB in the Sustainable Development Era: A Multisectoral Response aims to accelerate implementation of the WHO End TB Strategy - with immediate action addressing gaps in access to care and the multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) crisis - in order to reach th...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Ministerial_Conference_policy_briefs.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 125 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin-Week 22

This bulletin serves to inform all stakeholders at community, district and national levels on suspected disease trends, public health surveillance and interventions undertaken in detecting, preventing and responding to public health events in Uganda on a weekly basis.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Ug%20Epidemiological%20Bulletin2024Wk23%20...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 113 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Management of tuberculosis in children : A health worker guide.

The purpose of this flip chart is to guide front line health workers in providing quality and standardized screening, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB in children according to the new recommendations. This flip chart should be used at all health facility care points to identify and manage c...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Management%20of%20TB%20in%20Children_%20A%...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 133 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Towards tuberculosis elimination: an action framework for low-incidence countries

This Framework offers a coherent approach for eliminating tuberculosis (TB) in low-incidence countries. It is designed to guide national policy-makers and those responsible for technical aspects of the national TB response in accelerating efforts towards elimination. The document will also be inform...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Towards%20TB%20elimination.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 121 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Ministry of Health Manual of the national Tuberculosis and Leprosy Programme

Uganda was ranked 18th out of the 22 tuberculosis (TB) high-burden countries in the world during 2009. The Annual Risk of TB Infection (ARI) for Uganda is estimated at 3 percent. The incidence of TB is 330/100,000 population for all TB cases and 136/100,000 population for sputum smear-positive pulmo...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Uganda%20National%20TB%20Treatment%20Guide...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 6 hours ago 143 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Fluorescent light-emitting diode (LED) microscopy for diagnosis of tuberculosis Policy statement

Conventional light microscopy of Ziehl-Neelsen-stained smears prepared directly from sputum specimens is the most widely available test for diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in resource-limited settings. Ziehl-Neelsen microscopy is highly specific, but its sensitivity is variable (20-80%) and is signif...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Fluorescent%20light%20emitting%20diode%20m...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Global Tuberculosis report 2017

The purpose of WHO��s Global Tuberculosis Report is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and of progress in care and prevention at global, regional and country levels.1 This is done in the context of recommended global TB strategies and associated targets, and broa...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Global%20Tuberculosis%20Report%202017.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 150 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Community involvement in tuberculosis care and prevention Towards partnerships for health

This publication provides guiding principles for WHO Member States to promote the involvement of people with tuberculosis (TB) and the community in TB care and prevention. These recommendations are designed to support health policy-makers - and patients�� groups and local partners - in including com...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Community%20involvement%20in%20TB%20care%2...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 144 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Collaborative framework for care and control of tuberculosis and diabetes

Diabetes triples the risk of developing tuberculosis (TB). Consequently, rates of TB are higher in people with diabetes than in the general population, and diabetes is a common comorbidity in people with TB. Diabetes can worsen the clinical course of TB, and TB can worsen glycaemic control in people...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Collaborative%20framework%20for%20care%20a...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

TB/HIV A Clinical Manual

Untreated HIV infection leads to progressive immunodeficiency and increased susceptibility to infections, including TB. HIV is driving the TB epidemic in many countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and, increasingly, in Asia and South America.TB in populations with high HIV prevalence is a lead...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/TB%20HIV%20a%20clinical%20manual.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 122 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

First WHO Global Ministerial Conference Ending TB in The Sustainable Development Era: A Multisectoral Response 16--17 November 2017, Moscow, Russian Federation

The WHO Global Ministerial Conference on Ending TB in the Sustainable Development Era: A Multisectoral Response aims to accelerate implementation of the WHO End TB Strategy - with immediate action addressing gaps in access to care and the multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) crisis - in order to reach th...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Ministerial_Conference_policy_briefs_0.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 147 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Uganda Tuberculosis Communication Strategy

Ministry of Health emphasizes the need to promote health services with the aim of increasing access and utilization of the services. Prevention and control of Tuberculosis is one of the priority services of the health sector that has had inadequate promotion as a result of lack of communication stra...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20Uganda%20Tuberculosis%20Communicatio...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 6 hours ago 131 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Rapid advice : treatment of tuberculosis in children

The World Health Organization (WHO) first published guidance for national tuberculosis control programmes on managing tuberculosis in children (hereafter called ��the Guidance��) in 2006. The Guidance follows the principles of a public health approach aimed at optimizing outcomes, including the qual...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Treatment%20of%20Tuberculosis%20in%20Child...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Prevention and Control of Cholera: Operational Guidelines for the National and District Health Workers & Planners.

Cholera is preventable and treatable acute diarrhoeal disease caused by infection of the intestine with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, either serogroup O1 or O139. Cholera is usually transmitted through consumption of water or food contaminated by faeces bearing the cholera organism.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Final%20Cholera%20Guidelines%202017.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 143 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda Guidelines for Prevention , Testing, Care and Treatment of Hepatitis B and C Virus Infection

Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver. Hepatitis can be caused by infectious such as viruses, bacteria and non-infectious agents such as toxins, drugs, alcohol. Viral hepatitis is inflammation of the liver caused by viruses. The commonest causes of viral hepatitis include one of the five heterotype...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Uganda%20Guidelines%20for%20Prevention%20a...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 132 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa Health Knowledge Management Portal

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: Communicable Diseases

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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.