This brief builds on the September 2020 “Responding to COVID-19 in Africa: Using Data to Find a Balance” report from the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC). It delves deeper into findings from PERC’s 24,000-person survey conducted in 18 African Union (AU) Member States betwee...
This guide presents communication guidance for countries introducing human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine at the national or sub-national levels. HPV vaccination is a key strategy for comprehensive cervical cancer control and prevention. By the end of 2015, more than 65 countries introduced HPV vaccin...
Breastfeeding is an extension of maternal protection that transitions the young infant from the shelter of the in utero environment to life in the ex utero world with its variety of potentially harmful exposures. The promotion, protection, and support of breastfeeding is an exceptionally cost-effect...
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...
The document titled Guidance on Community Physical Distancing During 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, Norther...
While reported COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decrease in most African Union (AU) Member States, the new variant first detected in South Africa (501Y.V2) has continued to spread. Across the continent and globally, countries have announced new restrictions limiting travel to/from South Africa...
The document titled COVID-19 Science and Public Health Policy update – 6 April 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 A...
The Semi-Annual Health Sector Performance review meetings highlight progress, challenges, lessons learnt and proposes a mechanism for improvement. The meeting focuses on the progress in the implementation of approved work plans and Budgets for FY 2021/22 and trends in performance for selected indica...
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 s...
The Ministry of Health through the nutrition division is responsible for fast-tracking efforts to reduce the burden of malnutrition in the country and contribute to the wellbeing and national development of the country. This report provides a summary of the status and progress on key nutrition indic...
The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Democratic Republic of the Congo 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,...
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...
The document titled Africa CDC Newsletter – June 2019 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, Western Africa, providing valuable g...
The year 2015 is when the world aimed to achieve many of the targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals. Some have been met. The rate of extreme poverty and the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water were both halved between 1990 and 2010, fi ve years ahead of schedule....
An Act to provide for the prevention and control of HIV and AIDS, including protection, counselling,testing, care of persons living with and affected by HIV and AIDS, rights and obligations of persons living with HIV and AIDS and to establish the HIV and AIDS trust fund
National statistical report on the malaria events of Epi Week 7, 2024.
The World malaria report 2018 estimates that there were 219 million cases of malaria in 2017. The 10 highest burden African countries saw an estimated 3.5 million more malaria cases in 2017 compared with the previous year. Malaria continues to claim the lives of more than 435 000 people each year, l...
The document titled Report of assessment and partnership visit to Rabat and Casablanca, Morocco offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Morocco, providing valuable guidance and data for public hea...
This assessment report is the result of a combined effort of staff from the Uganda Ministry of Health, Maternal Child Health Technical Working Group-ETAT Steering Committee, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), USAID Maternal Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) Activity, World H...
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 responding to public health events in the country on a weekly basis. In this issue, we brin...