The second issue of the Health Sector Newsletter is here! This issue covers the months of June to October which saw the sector making significant progress towards the achievement of both its programmatic and institutional objectives. In here you will find a mixture of news, features and insights on...
The Ministry of Health Uganda mission is ''To provide the highest possible level of health services to all people in Uganda through delivery of preventive, curative, palliative and rehabilitative health services at all levels''. � It��s set up with the mandate of policy formulation and policy dialo...
The PEAP provides an over-arching framework to guide public action to eradicate poverty. It has been prepared through a consultative process involving central and local Government, Parliament, Donors and Civil Society. In order to achieve middle-income status, Uganda needs to industrialise by enhanc...
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 responding to public health events in the country on a weekly basis. In this issue,...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 85: 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 A...
The National Drug Authority Strategic Plan 2020/2021-2024/2025 builds on the gains achieved in the previous period and also focuses on consolidating efficiency and effectiveness in drug regulation, as provided for within the mandate of the Drug Authority. This strategic plan has been aligned to the...
Reporting rate this week (82.9%) is five percentage points higher to that in the previous week, 2019W24 (77.9%)�There were an increase in malaria morbidity this week. About 27,000 more malaria cases occurred this week (268,567) compared to 241,802 the previous week. About 8.6% (11/128) of districts...
The Carter Center River Blindness Elimination Program held its 21st annual review, March 27-29, 2017 at its Atlanta headquarters. The review focused on the 2016 RBEP achievements, challenges, and operational research and provided recommendations for 2017 activities in each of the RBEP assited countr...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (17 August 2022) 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, Nor...
The Government of Uganda through Uganda AIDS Commission and with support from the national HIV/AIDS Partnership revised the National Strategic Plan (2007/08-2011/12) for HIV/AIDS and aligned it to the National Development Plan (NSP). This four-year NSP for HIV/AIDS is a national multi-sector tool fo...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (13 April 2022) offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa,...
The April 2007 Technical review meeting (4th MOH TRM) noted that whereas there were positive steps taken to improve on overall management of Essential Medicines and Health Supplies (EMHS), stock outs of essential medicines were still common. This was mainly attributed to under funding but the actual...
A drug and therapeutics committee (DTC) provides such a forum, allowing all the relevant people to work together to improve health care delivery, whether in hospitals or other health facilities. In many developed countries a well functioning DTC has been shown to be very effective in addressing drug...
It has been 12 years since world leaders committed to Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4), which sets out to reduce the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.
The implementation of HRIS in countries with no approved policies geared towards supporting its use and management has several challenges, but that should not over rid and prevent its implementation due to its advantages. In this paper we present the HRIS implementation process (strategies, approach...
At the Ministry of Health, Kenya, our vision for our beloved country reflects a Healthy, Productive and globally-competitive nati...
The Digital Health Atlas (DHA) -- www.digitalhealthatlas.org -- is an open-source digital health software developed by WHO as a web-based technology registration and assessment web platform to enable governments, technology implementers as well as donors to manage information about existing and new...
L’évaluation externe conjointe de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) menée entre 2016 et 2019, l’Indice de sécurité sanitaire mondiale (GHSI) et les consultations régionales coordonnées par les Centres africains de contrôle et de prévention des maladies (CDC Afrique), une institution techniqu...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 33: COVID-19 Pandemic – 1 September 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, S...
Uganda��s maternal mortality ratio (MMR) though on a reducing trend, it remains unacceptably high at 336 per 100,000 live births (UDHS 2016). The under-5 mortality rate has reduced from 90 (2011) to 64 per 1,000 live births (UDHS 2016). However, despite the reduction in child Mortality, the Neonatal...
