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Comprehensive Cervical Cancer Control A guide to essential practice

This Guide is intended to help those responsible for providing services aimed at reducing the burden posed by cervical cancer for women, communities and health systems. It focuses on the knowledge and skills needed by health care providers, at different levels of care, in order to offer quality serv...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Cancers
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 171 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Consolidated Guidelines on use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating and Preventing HIV Infection.

WHO guidelines on the use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection provide a public health approach for scaling up HIV care and treatment programmes and focus on simplified, harmonized and effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens for use in resource-limited sett...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 152 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Report on Participatory Review of National Policies on: Land; Health; and Trade.

This was the first participatory review of public policies. It took place at Office of the President Cabinet Library on 16th April, 2019. The purpose of the participatory review was to assess effectiveness and relevance of the National Land Policy, National Health Policy and National Trade Policy. T...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 139 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Management of linen in the context of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases

The job aide is a step-by-step procedure of�handling linen of suspected, confirmed or probable EVD cases at Ebola Treatment Units, healthcare facilities, or within the�community (household).� Contaminated linen poses a risk of infection and should only be handled in PPE.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 days ago 143 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Ministerial policy statement 2014/15

The ministerial statement is about the vote functions of Ministry of health.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 180 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC COVID-19 Response Update, 31 May 2020

The document titled Africa CDC COVID-19 Response Update, 31 May 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, Northern Africa, Southern...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Brain Drain and Retention of Health Professionals in Africa

The African continent is facing a health crisis occasioned by a number of factors that have affected the sector over the past two decades or more. These factors include the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the reemergence of old communicable diseases such as TB and Malaria, and the apparent paradox of increasing...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 126 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Statement to African Union Member States on the deployment of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine to the continent and concerns about adverse event reports coming from Europe

ContextOn 15 February 2021, the World Health Organization listed the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for both emergency use and distribution via the COVAX facility. The African Regulatory Taskforce subsequently endorsed the WHO emergency use listing for this vaccine and the first shipments to Af...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 165 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly malaria status - Uganda week 19, 2018.

This publication is about the malaria case statistics of Uganda in the 19th week of 2018.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 165 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC COVID-19 Social Media Support Kit

The document titled Africa CDC COVID-19 Social Media Support Kit 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, Northern Africa, Southern Afr...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-social-media-support-kit/?ind=1603786774940&filename=AfricaC...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 60 Minutes ago 131 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 37, 9th - 15th September, 2019

We are pleased to share with you our 37th weekly epidemiological bulletin. This weekly 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 respondin...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 hour ago 152 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Hygiene and Sanitation Software An Overview of Approaches

The terms ��hygiene�� and ��sanitation�� can mean different things to different people. For the purposes of this document the term ��sanitation�� is used to refer to the management of human excreta. The term ��hygiene�� is used to refer to the behaviours/ measures, including but beyond the managemen...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Environmental Health and Sanitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 152 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Mental health aspects of womens reproductive health : A global review of the literature.

The review comprises the most recent information on the ways in which mental health concerns intersect with women��s reproductive health. It includes a discussion of the bio-psycho-social factors that increase vulnerability to poor mental health, those that might be protective and the types of progr...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 36 Minutes ago 141 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

World report on ageing and health 2015

The World report on ageing and health responds to these challenges by recommending equally profound changes in the way health policies for ageing populations are formulated and services are provided. As the foundation for its recommendations, the report looks at what the latest evidence has to say a...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 139 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

PERC: Brief on Public Health and Social Measure Implementation in Africa

The document titled PERC: Brief on Public Health and Social Measure Implementation in Africa 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, N...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 117: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 117: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic 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, Northern...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-117-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=16...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 160 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 9, 27th February - 5th March, 2017

The proportion of health facilities that reported was 81.4% reflecting a 7.8% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2016. Only 15.5% (18/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 60.3% (70/116) of the districts achieved the national target of 80%. Only o...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 133 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The World health report 2000 : health systems : improving performance

Today and every day, the lives of vast numbers of people lie in the hands of health systems. From the safe delivery of a healthy baby to the care with dignity of the frail elderly, health systems have a vital and continuing responsibility to people throughout the lifespan. They are crucial to the he...

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Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 24 hours ago 184 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 41, 10th - 16th October, 2016

In Week 41 of 2016, the proportion of health facilities that submitted a report this week was 85.9% which represents a 40.8% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2015. Since week 1 of 2016, there has been a sustained national reporting rate of 80% and above. Only 23.3% (27/11...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 181 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Health Facilities Inventory July 2012

This Health Facilities Inventory has been compiled from information provided by districts through the offices of the District Health Officers, verified by the Resident District Commissioners and/or the Chief Administrative Officers. It covers all the 112 districts of the country. The report has bee...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health system resilience
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 193 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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