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Africa CDC Support Program to Combat COVID-19 and Future Public Health Risks

The document titled Africa CDC Support Program to Combat COVID-19 and Future Public Health Risks 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 Afric...

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cdc-support-program-to-combat-covid-19-and-future-public-healt...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 135 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Weekly Event Based Surveillance Report, June 2023

Response: The MoH continues to conduct active case search and risk communication in the affected region.

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cdc-weekly-event-based-surveillance-report-june-2023/?ind=1692...
Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 110 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Standard Operating Procedures for Integrated Human Resources for Health Information System (HRIS)

Uganda like many of the developing countries is faced by a number of human resource challenges. An analysis of the HRH situation reveals an HRH crisis in the country characterized by a critical shortage of health workers with nearly 50% of the districts operating below 50% of the approved staffing e...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/HRIS_SOP%20in%20the%20Health%20Sector.pdf
Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 127 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Global Atlas on cardiovascular disease prevention and control

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the biggest cause of death worldwide. More than 17 million people died from CVDs in 2008. More than 3 million of these deaths occurred before the age of 60 and could have largely been prevented. The percentage of premature deaths from CVDs ranges from 4% in high...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Global%20Atlas%20on%20cardiovascular%20dis...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Non-communicable diseases and risk factors
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 136 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Statement on the Efficacy of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) against the SARS-CoV-2 Variants

The document titled Statement on the Efficacy of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) against the SARS-CoV-2 Variants offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges w...

https://africacdc.org/download/statement-on-the-efficacy-of-the-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-chadox1...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 Minutes ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Addressing Market Failures: The Role of CEPI in Bridging the Innovation Gap to Prevent the Next Pandemic

The global response to COVID-19 not only shows that the world was ill-prepared to prevent and respond to a pandemic caused by a novel respiratory pathogen, but also that there are an array of system and market failures in global health research and development (R&D). Solving for these failures ― and...

https://africacdc.org/download/addressing-market-failures-the-role-of-cepi-in-bridging-the-innovatio...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 146 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2010

��No child should be born with HIV; no child should be an orphan because of HIV; no child should die due to lack of access to treatment,�� urged Ebube Sylvia Taylor, an eleven year old born free of HIV, to world leaders gathered in New York to share progress made towards achieving the Millennium Dev...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/UNAIDS%20Report%20on%20Global%20AIDS%20epi...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 128 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in DRC

The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in DRC 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 Afr...

https://africacdc.org/download/finding-the-balance-public-health-and-social-measures-in-drc/?ind=161...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 Minutes ago 125 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Improving Maternal and Newborn Care in Northern Uganda

This report is about improving maternal and newborn care in Northern Uganda.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Improving%20Maternal%20and%20Nnewborn%20Ca...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 129 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Weekly Event Based Surveillance Report, February 2024

Geographic Focus: Reports could either focus on events affecting single country or multiple countries.Inclusion criteria: While Africa CDC continues to track all public health events on the continent, this report highlights only moderate to very high-risk events (with new updates in the reporting we...

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cdc-weekly-event-based-surveillance-report-february-2024/?ind=...
Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 128 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 33: 10th -16th Aug 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 responding to public health events in the country on a weekly basis. This issue, we showcas...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Weekly%20Epidemiological%20Bulletin%20Week...
Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 131 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Implementation research in health : A practical guide

This Guide presents an introduction to basic concepts used in implementation research and describes the range of approaches and applications that it can be used for. The main aim of the Guide is to support the development of and demand for implementation research that is problem-focused, action-orie...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Implementation%20research%20in%20health%20...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 133 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda Health Accounts

The total Current Health Expenditure (CHE) in Uganda in 2012/13 was Shs. 4,866 billion that translates to a per capita spending of Shs. 144,374 ($55). This increased in nominal terms by 1.7% and in real terms by Shs. 86 billion to 4,952 billion in 2013/14 that translates to� a per capita spending of...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Health%20Accounts-%20FINAL%20RE...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 129 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Policy Brief on Enhancement of use of Cleint Service Charters

A customer/client service charter is a set of standards that an organisation promises to uphold when dealing with customers. A customer/client charter publically sets out a number of minimum standards that citizens/ clients should expect when accessing public services. The clients�� Charters greatly...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Enhancement%20Of%20Use%20Of%20Client%20Ser...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Adolescent Girls Vulnerability Index Guiding Strategic Investment in Uganda

The Adolescent Girls Multilevel Vulnerability Index (AGI) was developed based on a growing recognition of the need to channel resources to vital��yet highly vulnerable and vastly underserved��populations of adolescent girls in Uganda specifically, and the East and Southern Africa region in general....

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20Adolescent%20girls%20vulnerability%2...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Adolescent Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 149 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda Pre-Eclampsia International Framework

The pre-eclampsia interventional framework will provide a basis for tracking implementation and assessment of achievements against targets, with the overall aim of reducing the maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality due to pre-eclampsia. The framework has been designed to provide updated, pra...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/PET%20Implementation%20Framework.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 124 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: 4 days ago 124 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Prevention of deafness and hearing loss

Globally, 360 million people (about 5% of the world��s population) live with disabling hearing loss, of whom 32 million are children. The prevalence of hearing loss increases from 1.7% among children to 7% in adults (including 183 million males and 145 million females).1 Nearly 180 million people ag...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Prevention%20of%20deafness%20and%20hearing...
Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Disability and Rehabilitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 117 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Global wealth report 2018

The Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report is the most extensive and current source of information on global household wealth. Now in its ninth edition, the report not only provides insights into the wealth development of regions and segments, but for the first time it also focuses on the most recent ev...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Global%20wealth%20report%202018.pdf
Theme: Data Analytics
Sub Theme: Poverty
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 17 hours ago 154 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Core Values of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)

The document titled Core Values of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) 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, South...

https://africacdc.org/download/core-values-of-the-africa-centres-for-disease-control-and-prevention-...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 130 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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