Anemia is a major public health problem worldwide. It affects mainly preschool children and pregnant women in low-income countries. At the global level, anemia prevalence is over 30%. In sub-Saharan Africa, anemia prevalence levels are not well documented due to inadequate and insufficient technique...
This list presents the minimum medicine needs for a basic health care system, listing the most efficacious, safe and cost-effective medicines for priority conditions. Priority conditions are selected on the basis of current and estimated future public health relevance, and potential for safe and cos...
The document titled Africa CDC Statement on Anti-Corruption and Zero Tolerance to Fraud offers a comprehensive insight into Administration, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern A...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (31 August 2021) 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 National Policy on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work provides the principles and a framework for mounting an optimum response to HIV/AIDS in the entire Ugandan world of work.� It forms the basis for the development of workplace policy guidelines, which address the more specific issues related to th...
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...
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...
The document titled Communiqué of Directors of Regional Institutions for the Africa Continental World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020 offers a comprehensive insight into Antimicrobial Resistance Control, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 129: 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...
Africa CDC and the Mastercard Foundation salute the work of so many women around the continent who are at the forefront of strengthening public health. We celebrate their contributions in this edition as we mark International Women’s Month.
The development of this National Health Policy (NHP II) has been informed by the National Development Program (NDP) for the period 2009/10��2013/14, the overall development agenda for Uganda. The NDP places emphasis on investing in the promotion of people��s health, a fundamental human right for all...
As highlighted in the conference discussions, the future of health in Africa will be a story of hope and obstacles. The continent has come a long way toward realising the African Union’s New Public Health Order since 2020 but disease outbreaks are on the rise; climate change, food insecurity, popula...
The goal of this tuberculosis (TB) infection control guidelines is to guide management staff, including health care workers, congregate settings managers and household heads to minimize the risk of TB transmission at Ugandan facilities in particular and the whole country in general. The current nati...
In week 11 2016, all the 112 districts (100%) reported, with an average reporting rate of 77.6%. However, this was 5.2% decline from the previous week. Only 13 districts had 100% all of their health facilities reporting, and 57 districts (51%) achieved the national target reporting rate of 80%. No d...
National quantification of EMHLS is an annual exercise conducted by NMS under the direct supervision of MoH, and the exercise is intended to provide all public sector players/stakeholder in the health sector with feedback about facility needs in accordance with the NMS Act Cap 207 that states in par...
The 2016 Human Development Report is the latest in the series of global Human Development Reports published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990 as independent, analytically and empirically grounded discussions of major development issues, trends and policies.Additional reso...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 120: 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...
The set of case studies in this collection emerged from a session entitled Best Practices in Female Sex Worker Projects held at the Fourth International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific in Manila, October 1997. Preparation for the session began in May 1997 when UNAIDS sponsored an effort to...
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 weeklybasis. � In this issue, we bri...
East Africa is highly affected by neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which are projected to be exacerbated by climate change. Consequently, understanding what research has been conducted and what knowledge gaps remain regarding NTDs and climate change is crucial to informing public health intervent...
