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Child's Day and SNIDS Communication Campaign Evaluation

Vitamin A deficiently was recognized as one of the major public health problems contributing significantly to under 5 years mortality, increases susceptibility to infection, lowers immunity leading to frequent ill health and poor growth among children under five years of age.� n 1999 the Ministry of...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Child%20days%20and%20SNIDS%20Communication...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 176 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (28 July 2020)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (28 July 2020) 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, North...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-28-july-2020/?ind...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 20 hours ago 152 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Ministry of Health Stock Status Report as at 1st October 2019

The purpose of this report is to inform the Ministry of Health and all stakeholders of the stock levels in the country as a tool that enables appropriate logistics decision making . This report highlights stock status, real challenges, bottlenecks but also recommends potential solutions to mitigate...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/MOH%20SSR%201st%20October%202019.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 135 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2009

Since the entry into force of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), we have made considerable progress against the global tobacco epidemic. Through results presented in this WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2009 - the second countrylevel examination of the global toba...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/WHO%20report%20on%20the%20Global%20Tobacco...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 hours ago 143 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

UNAIDS data 2019

Globally, new HIV infections among young women aged 15-24 years were reduced by 25% between 2010 and 2018. This is good news, but of course it remains unacceptable that every week 6000 adolescent girls and young women become infected with HIV. The sexual and reproductive health and rights of women a...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/UNAIDS%20data%202019.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Compendium on gender equality and Women's Empowerment in Uganda's Health Sector 2018

The incentive for developing this resource was to compile the legal and policy frameworks pertaining to gender equality and women empowerment initiatives at the international, regional, sub-regional, and national levels applicable in Uganda.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Compendium%20on%20Gender%20and%20HR%20Laws...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 164 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (27 October 2021)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (27 October 2021) 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, No...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-27-october-2021/?...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 155 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda Essential Medicines and Health Supplies Management Manual 2018

This manual describes how to manage supplies based on revised and harmonized tools. It will act as a reference guide for health workers and focus on basic principles of supply chain management. If properly followed, it will promote efficient stock control and ordering of all EMHS. Health workers at...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/EMHS%20Manual_MASTER_COPY_14-Mar-2019.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 158 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Plan of Action for Sexual and Gender Based Violence and Violence Against Children

Violence affects the lives of many Ugandans and when not fatal, can have long-lasting consequences. Deaths are only a fraction of the health and social burden arising from gender based violence and violence against children. Women and girls, children and the elderly bear a higher burden of non-fatal...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Plan%20of%20Action%20for%20SGBV...
Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Gender Based Violence
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 184 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Health Accounts FY 2008/09 and FY 2009/10

Sustainable and equitable Health Financing systems play a critical role in improving health outcomes. However such policies must be built on foundation of sound evidence and analyses. The National Health Accounts (NHA) is a tool that helps countries to clearly visualize the flow and use of funds thr...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Health%20accounts%20Report%2020...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 195 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Family Planning Advocacy Strategy Costed Implementation Plan 2020 - 2025

According to the Health Sector Development Plan 2015/16-2019/20, the trend of family planning services in Uganda is improving. However, although the adolescent fertility rate, the unmet need for family planning, and the contraceptive prevalence rate are all rising, the rate at which these improvemen...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Family%20Planning%20Advocacy%20...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 144 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Where There Is No Dentist

A healthy tooth is a living part of the body. It is connected by ��life-lines�� of blood and nerve to a person��s heart and brain. To separate the tooth from the body, or even to interrupt those ��life-lines��, means death to the tooth. It also means pain and injury to the body, to the person

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Where%20there%20is%20no%20dentist.pdf
Theme: Emergency Preparedness
Sub Theme: Primary Health Care
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 169 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

July-September 2016 Facility Tracer Medicines Stock Status Report

The quarterly report on the facility stock status of the 41 tracer items (in different baskets) provides information about the stock situation of health facilities in the country in order to inform the Ministry of Health and all stakeholders to make appropriate logistics decisions that ensure an eff...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Facility%20stock%20status%20situation%20Ju...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 days ago 142 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Lessons learned in Home Management of Malaria

The document is a comparative analysis and documentation of the processes that have enabled teams to implement HMM in various settings. It complements other WHO publications on the subject (WHO, 2004, 2005) in that it focuses on the processes, challenges, and lessons learnt in implementing the HMM s...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Lessons%20learned%20in%20Home%20Management...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 139 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Health sector ministerial policy statement FY 2012/ 2013.

This policy statement is about the vote functions of Ministry of health.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Ministerial%20Policy%20Statement%20For%20F...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 192 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/MIYCAN_Health%20Facility_Facilitators_Manu...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 days ago 158 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidelines for General Hospital Management Boards 2019

Hospital Management Boards are the governance structures. The Boards promote participation and ownership of health services by the community, advocate for improved quality of service delivery, and promote transparency in the management of the Boards in pursuit of one of the policy objectives of the...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/HB%20for%20GHs.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 194 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Leadership For Primary Health Care

The extension of Health care to all people has been an objective of the national Health systems for many years and since the Alma-Ata confrence on Primary Health Care in 1978,Countries have pursued this aim with greater vigour.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Leadership%20for%20primary%20health%20care...
Theme: Emergency Preparedness
Sub Theme: Primary Health Care
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 167 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

UNAIDS special report 2013

The number of people living with HIV who are accessing referral centres in the country has continued to grow since the introduction of universal and free antiretroviral therapy (ART). People also now have access to treatment for coinfection with TB and hepatitis B and C. Similarly, clinical and labo...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/UNAIDS%20Special%20report%202013.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 130 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

On the road to a Malaria-free Uganda - Second Universal Coverage Mosquito Net distribution Campaign offers hope to Uganda

This issue of the National Malaria Control Program newsletter is spiced up with a number of stories showing the LLIN 2017/2018 journey. Key among the stories is Nalweyiso��s story who envisages opening up a retail shop in her house as a result of savings from Malaria treatment. Nalweyiso is grateful...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/LLIN%20News%20letter%20final%20March%20201...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 173 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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