Human Development Report 2011 Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All

This Report explores the integral links between environmental sustainability and equity and shows that these are critical to expanding human freedoms for people today and in generations to come. The point of departure is that the remarkable progress in human development over recent decades that the...

The World Bank News Letter - UCREPP

The key highlight in this edition is the site handovers for the construction of modern Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in the three health facilities at Arua, Hoima, and Kabale Regional Referral Hospitals that took place on the 15th, August, 23rd August, and 1st September 2023, respectively.

Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 40: 28th SEP-4th Oct 2020

We are pleased to share our 40th weekly epidemiological bulletin for the year 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 respond...

Investigating cause of death during an outbreak of Ebola virus haemorrhagic fever : Draft verbal autopsy instrument

This document presents a draft verbal autopsy instrument based on best judgement and previousexperience in a variety of settings including outbreaks and research. It has been circulated widely toprofessionals involved in previous outbreaks and revised accordingly. This questionnaire is a first atte...

Association between CD4 T cell counts and the immune status among adult critically ill HIV-negative patients in intensive care units in Uganda

Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2016

The data collection for the 2016 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) was implemented between June 15 and December 18 2016 by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program is a global programme coordinated...

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.��

Ministry Of Health guidelines for eye care

The Eye Care Guidelines aim to provide easy to use, practical, complete and useful information on how to correctly diagnose and manage the seventeen common eye conditions in Uganda.

The State Of Uganda Population Report 2009

Uganda has been compiling the ��State of Uganda Population Report�� on an annual basis since 2000 through a joint effort by Population Secretariat, as the institution responsible for coordinating population policies and programmes; and United

A heavy burden : The indirect cost of illness in Afriaca.

The diseases afflicting the African population are responsible for a substantial loss in health, estimated at 704 765 879 DALYs in 2015 alone. In the WHO African Region, total losses amounted to 629 603 271 DALYs. Out of that total, 416 671 978 DALYs (59.1 %) were from communicable, maternal, perina...

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.

Provider Initiated HIV Counselling and Testing in Clinical Settings : Trainers Manual

This training manual is designed to equip service providers with knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to provide quality RCT services in a hospital or any health care setting. The overall goal of the RCT training programme is to increase the production and provision of high quality HIV counseling...

Integrated Community Case Management of Childhood Malaria, Pneumonia and Diarrhoea : Implementation guidelines

This document is to guide policy makers, managers, districts, health workers, communities, NGOs and all other stakeholders on how to implement integrated community case management (ICCM) of childhood malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea to reduce under mortality and take actions to introduce, implement,...

Bulletin pidmiologique mensuel des maladies potentiel pidmique et autres urgences de sant publique, September 2023

Choléra Source : SITREP choléra, bulletins SIMR des États membres Durant la période de rapportage allant des semaines épidémiologiques (SE) 35 à 39 de 2023, 4 191 nouveaux cas (suspects et confirmés) de choléra dont 51 décès ont été notifiés, portant le cumul de SE 01 à SE 39 de 2023 à 46 164 cas /...

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.

Report on the First Edition of the Uganda National Digital Health Conference 2023

This report is an account of all that happened during the First Edition of the National Digital Health Conference held on the 13th and 14th of November 2023 at Kampala Serena Hotel. The main objective of the conference was to discuss Uganda��s progress in implementing digital health initiatives and...

Global MediXChange for combating COVID-19: the experience of China

The document titled Global MediXChange for combating COVID-19: the experience of China 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...

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 28, 11th - 17th July, 2016

Comparable to the previous week, all 112 districts reported and with an average reporting rate of 83.3% in week 28, 2016. This represents a 15.5% increase in reporting rate compared to the same week in 2015. A total of 23% (26/112) had 100% of all their health facilities reporting and 50% (66/112) o...

Communicable disease control in emergencies A field manual

This manual is intended to help health professionals and public health coordinators working in emergency situations prevent, detect and control the major communicable diseases encountered by affected populations. Emergencies include complex emergencies and natural disasters (e.g. floods and earthqua...

PERC: Biweekly Report (14 27 October 2020)

Disease Situation • For the continent as a whole, new cases and deaths reported between 14-27 October remained relatively unchanged compared to the previous two weeks (30 September – 13 October). The test per case ratio remains below the recommended range in two-thirds of AU Member States surveyed,...