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Country implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes: Status report 2011

Globally, breastfeeding has the potential to prevent about 800 000 deaths among children under five each year if all children 0-23 months were optimally breastfed. Early initiation of breastfeeding could prevent about one fifth of neonatal deaths, but less than half of infants are put to the breast...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
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Guidelines on establishing of health unit management committees for HCII

The functions of the committee shall be to monitor the general administration of the health centre II on behalf of the Local Council and the Ministry of health. this shall be done with the policy and guidelines of the Ministry of Health

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 131 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Strengthening Health management in the Districts and Provinces

This book is for the facilitators in strengthening Health Management in the districts and Provinces and it consists of three major parts.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 19 hours ago 115 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...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 144 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Population and Housing Census 2014

Demographic and socio-economic data are useful for planning and evidence-based decision making in any country.� �Such data are collected through Population Censuses, Demographic and Socio-economic Surveys, Civil Registration Systems and other Administrative sources. In Uganda, however, the Populatio...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 125 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Prevention and control of HIV/AIDS ethical aspects : A report of an international symposium.

Throughout the symposium, global trends and perspectives concerning ethical aspects on HIV/AIDS� were reviewed by National and International experts including a researcher, health practitioner, a legal specialist, and a representative of suportive groups who made presentations and participated in a...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 124 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum and Newborn Care: A guide for essential practice

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...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 127 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Human Resources for Health Audit Report 2017/18

This 2017/2018 Annual Human Resources for Health (HRH) Audit report is the 9th in series and was compiled by the Ministry of Health (Department of Human Resource Management) with support from USAID-funded Strengthening Human Resource for Health (SHRH) Activity that is implemented by IntraHealth Inte...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 158 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Management of Drugs at Health Centre Level : training manual

The main purpose of the field testing was to ascertain the suitability of the material for teaching drug management to health workers who are given the responsibility of managing drugs, particularly at the health centre or other similar levels. Most of these health workers have had no formal trainin...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 24 hours ago 137 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Essential Maternal and Newborn Clinical Care Guidelines For Uganda

This book, which has been appropriately titled Essential Maternal & Neonatal Care Clinical Guidelines for Uganda, is expected to be a reinforcement of the Safe Motherhood Life Saving Skills (LSS) program, the Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postnatal Care (PCPNC), Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) Tr...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 164 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Sick Child Job Aid - iCCM

Sick Child Job Aid is a useful guide that enables the health worker to gather information about the sick child both at the health facility and while in the community.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Sick%20Child%20Job%20Aid-%20ICCM.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 123 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Ministerial Policy Statement Financial Year 2013/2014

The Government of Uganda is committed to facilitating the attainment of a good standard of health for all the people in Uganda. The goal of the Health Sector is therefore to reduce morbidity and mortality as a contribution to poverty reduction as well as economic and social development of the people...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 148 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Zimbabwe

The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Zimbabwe 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, Norther...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 177 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: 1 day ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Atlas of Common Clinical Presentations of Pediatric HIV Infections

Over 2 million children worldwide are living with HIV infection and 95% reside in sub-Saharan Africa with the majority infected through mother-to-child transmission. Infected children have a high mortality with 50% dying by 2 years of age. Their clinical presentation includes common childhood infect...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 155 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 23: 1st-7th June 2020

This epidemiological bulletin serves to inform all stakeholders at district, national, and global levels on disease trends, public health surveillance and interventions undertaken in detecting, preventing and responding to public health events in the country on a weekly basis. In this issue, we brin...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 124 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Status of collection of assessed contributions, including Member States in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an extent that would justify invoking Article 7 of the Constitution.

This report is about the members of state and their contributions to WHO inorder for the organisation to deliver the approved programme budget.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Village Health Team Guide for Training the Trainers of Village Health Teams

The Ministry of Health is implementing the Village Health Team (VHT) strategy to ensure that every village in Uganda has capacity to mobilize individuals and households for better health. VHT members are community volunteers who are selected by communities to provide correct health information, mobi...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/VHT%20ToT%20Guide.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health system resilience
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 148 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Statement on the use of Dexamethasone for severely ill COVID-19 Patients

Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is aware of the media releases of the preliminary results of a large randomized clinical trial conducted in the United Kingdom, which included dexamethasone, a corticosteroid, as one of the drugs used for the treatment of COVID-19 patien...

https://africacdc.org/download/statement-on-the-use-of-dexamethasone-for-severely-ill-covid-19-patie...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 127 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO guidelines for the management of postpartum haemorrhage and retained placenta

One of the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations in 2000 is to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015. If this is to be achieved, maternal deaths related to postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) must be significantly reduced. In support of this, health workers in developing coun...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 129 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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