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Management of MDR-TB : A field guide

Management of MDR-TB: a fi eld guide was created to help health workers carry out these tasks. It is a job aid that medical offi cers and TB nurses are meant use frequently during the day for quick reference. This module is closely related to other clinical guideline modules in the Integrated Manage...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Managment%20of%20MDR%20TB%20a%20field%20gu...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 120 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Lung Cancer

https://rbc.gov.rw/rnhrr/pub?code=298

Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Non-communicable diseases and risk factors
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Digital Transformation Strategy

In Africa, where health systems1 are faced with numerous challenges, including insufficient funding, inadequate infrastructure, and shortages of skilled healthcare workers, digital transformation presents a unique opportunity to address these challenges and improve health outcomes for millions of pe...

https://africacdc.org/download/digital-transformation-strategy/?ind=1678192583701&filename=Africa-CD...
Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 132 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (22 September 2020)

A. Executive summary ● Two studies report on a possibility of in-flight transmission of SARS-COV-2 over long commercial flights among passengers and flight attendants. The studies suggest that guidelines for preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection among passengers should consider individual passengers’ risk...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-22-september-2020...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 127 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Equity, social determinants and public health programmes

The report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, issued in September 2008, challenged conventional public health thinking on several fronts. The report responded to a situation in which the gaps, within and between countries, in income levels, opportunities, health status, life expecta...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Equity%20social%20determinants%20and%20pub...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 113 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Contributing to health system strengthening Guiding principles for national tuberculosis programmes

This is a dynamic and challenging time for those working in public health, in global health cooperation, and in tuberculosis control specifically. As a result of commitments to health at the highest political levels, there are unprecedented opportunities for expanding response to disease epidemics a...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Contributing%20to%20health%20system%20stre...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 123 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

MPS: Health FY 2013/14

This ministerial statement is about the vote functions of ministry of health. A vote function is a set of programes, projects and loccal gov't grants ,defining the roles and responsibilities of a vote / institution and contributing towards the attainment of vote and overoll sector objectives.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Ministerial%20Policy%20Statement%20FY%2020...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 14 hours ago 123 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Digitization and Health Information Monthly Report, December 2023

In this edition, the Division of Health Information brings you exciting updates from the Digital Health Conference that was held on the 13th and 14th of November at the Kampala Serena Hotel. The theme of the conference was ��Leveraging digital health to improve efficiency in service delivery.��

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Health%20Sector%20Digitization%20Bulletin%...
Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 24 hours ago 134 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...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/World%20report%20on%20Ageing%20and%20Healt...
Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 122 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

5S Hand Book Practical Hints for 5S in Health Care Facilities 2019

In order to set the best stage for health care personnel to make maximum use of their skills and knowledge, the Ministry of Health of Uganda (MoH) recommends the 5S method as the foundation for all quality improvement initiatives in the country. The 5S method was developed in the mid-1980s by the au...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/5S%20Hand%20Book%202019.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 143 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 87: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

As of 9 a.m. East African Time (EAT) 14 September 2021, a total of 8,052,110 COVID-19 cases and 204,025 deaths (CFR: 2.5%) have been reported in 55 African Union (AU) Member States. This represents 3.6% of all cases and 4.4% of all deaths reported globally. Twenty-three (42%) AU Member States are re...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-87-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=163...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 114 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (06 October 2020)

A. Executive summary • Two preprint studies demonstrated that SARS-CoV2 D614G substitution enhances infectivity, replication fitness, and early transmission in hamsters. Findings indicate the D614G variant exhibited significantly faster droplet transmission between hamsters and clinical evidence tha...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-06-october-2020/?...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 days ago 127 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Ministry of Health Stock Status Report as at 1st June 2020

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%20June%202020.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 132 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Voluntary HIV counselling and testing in Uganda

As one of the first countries in Africa where HIV was recognized, the effect of the AIDS epidemic in Uganda has been severe. AIDS was first reported in Rakai District in 1982, 180 km outside the capital city of Kampala. HIV rates increased rapidly throughout the country and by the late 1980s it appe...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Knowledge%20is%20power%20VCT%20in%20Uganda...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 137 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: 12 hours ago 116 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Essential Maternal and Newborn Clinical Care Guidelines for Uganda, May 2022

For Uganda to achieve its SDG targets requires steepening the rate of MMR declined by��5.5% to achieve <140/100,000 by 2030, IMR has to reduce to at least 12 per 1000 live births and U5MR to 25 per 1000 live births by 2030. The MPDSR report for the FY 2020/2021 shows that the three major causes of i...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Essential%20Maternal%20Newborn%20Care%20Gu...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 days ago 114 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Roadmap for the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Uganda 2020/21- 2024/25

The new SDG roadmap is needed in order to ensure that the SDG Coordination Framework and related interventions are in conformity with the Third National Development Plan (NDP III) programme areas. The NDP III review revealed an increase in the alignment of SDG targets to the NDP from 69 percent duri...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Roadmap%20for%20the%20Implementation%20of%...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 hours ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Integrated National Guidelines on Antiretroviral Therapy, Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV and Infant & Young Child Feeding.

The revised National guidelines on antiretroviral therapy, prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV and on infant and young child feeding contribute to the National Strategic Plan (NSP) and are targeted to reach all health providers who take care of HIV infected patients either directly or...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Integrated%20National%20Guidelines%20on%20...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 127 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

African Union and the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Preventions Africa Regulatory Taskforce has endorsed the Emergency Used Authorization for Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine

In order to properly guide Member States, the Africa Regulatory Taskforce has developed a framework(https://africacdc.org/download/guidance-on-emergencyexpedited-regulatory-authorisation-and-access-to-covid-19-vaccines-in-africa/) for market authorisation of COVID-19 vaccines, which include three sc...

https://africacdc.org/download/african-union-and-the-africa-centers-for-disease-control-and-preventi...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 139 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

e-Health Quarterly Bulletin April 2016 Issue 1

he World Health Organization defines e-Health as the combined use of electronic communication and information technology in the health sector. In practical terms, e-Health is the means of ensuring that the right health information is provided to the right person at the right place and time in a secu...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/eHealth%20Quartely%20Bulletin%20April%2020...
Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 141 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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