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Family Planning Performance Update- July 2021

The Family Planning monthly performance update for July, 2021 update has been compiled using our service statistics data (DHIS 2) as one of the principal instruments to monitor program performances. Reporting rates improved while Reporting rates on time slightly dropped when compared to the previous...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Monthly%20FP%20Performance_July%202021-1.p...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 144 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (6 July 2021)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (6 July 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, Northe...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-6-july-2021/?ind=...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Tuberculosis and air travel Guidelines for prevention and control

International travel has become increasingly easy and readily available. Ever greater numbers of people are using international air travel for many reasons including business, tourism, immigration, asylum seeking or humanitarian activities. There is a potential risk of transmission of tuberculosis (...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Tubercu%3Bosis%20and%20Air%20Travel%20Guid...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 124 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

A Community Guide to Environmental Health

When we talk about environmental health, we mean the way our health is affected by the world around us, and also how our activities affect the health of the world around us. If our food, water, and air are contaminated, they can make us sick. If we are not careful about how we use the air, water, an...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/A%20Community%20Guide%20to%20Environmental...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Environmental Health and Sanitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 146 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Resources for the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week #WAAW2021

The document titled Resources for the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week #WAAW2021 offers a comprehensive insight into Antimicrobial Resistance Control, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Afric...

https://africacdc.org/download/resources-for-the-world-antimicrobial-awareness-week-waaw2021/?ind=16...
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Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Community Health Extension Workers National Policy 2018

In 2001, Ministry of Health established the Village Health Teams (VHT) strategy as an innovative approach to empower communities to participate in improving their own health as well as strengthen the delivery of health services at both the community and house hold levels. Despite implementing this s...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/CHEW%20Policy%20-%20November%20%202018-%20...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 24 hours ago 158 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Report on the Side Event on the Role of Community Health Workers and Volunteers in the Attainment of Universal Health Coverage and Health Security in Africa

Participants were Member states representatives, experts from development agencies and civil society organizations involved in Community Health systems strengthening on the continent. One critical area that was highlighted by participants is the need to increase the protection of CHWs in terms of th...

https://africacdc.org/download/report-on-the-side-event-on-the-role-of-community-health-workers-and-...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Service Availability Mapping (SAM)

Service Availability Mapping (SAM) in Uganda was conducted by Uganda��s Ministry of Health (MoH) resource centre and the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2004. The goal was to collect information on the availability and distribution of key health services by interviewing the district directo...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Service%20Availability%20Mapping%202006.pd...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Infrastructure
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Zimbabwe

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

https://africacdc.org/download/finding-the-balance-public-health-and-social-measures-in-zimbabwe/?in...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 14 hours ago 123 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (27 October 2021)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (27 October 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, No...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-27-october-2021/?...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 135 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Essential Maternal and Newborn Clinical Care Guidelines For Uganda

This book, which has been appropriately titled Essential Maternal & Neonatal Care Clinical Guidelines for Uganda, is expected to be a reinforcement of the Safe Motherhood Life Saving Skills (LSS) program, the Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postnatal Care (PCPNC), Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) Tr...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Essential%20Maternal%20%26%20Neonatal%20Ca...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 hours ago 166 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Framework for Antimicrobial Resistance

The document titled Africa CDC Framework for Antimicrobial Resistance offers a comprehensive insight into Antimicrobial Resistance Control, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern A...

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cdc-framework-for-antimicrobial-resistance/?ind=1566989816849&...
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Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 127 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Use of Pulse Oximeter by Public & Healthcare Providers in the Community for Suspected and Confirmed COVID-19 Cases

The document titled The Use of Pulse Oximeter by Public & Healthcare Providers in the Community for Suspected and Confirmed COVID-19 Cases offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health chall...

https://africacdc.org/download/the-use-of-pulse-oximeter-by-public-healthcare-providers-in-the-commu...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 130 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly malaria status - Uganda week 13, 2018.

This publication is about the malaria case statistics of Uganda in the 13th week of 2018.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Malaria%20weekly%20update%2013%2C%202018.p...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 126 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents prenatally infected with HIV in Uganda

The rapid roll-out of anti-retroviral treatment programs has made it possible for perinatally infected infants to live through adolescence and adulthood, thereby engaging in dating and sexual relationships. However, the sexual and reproductive health needs of this unique and rapidly increasing popul...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Sexual%20and%20Reproductive%20health%20nee...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 151 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 24, 13th - 19th June, 2016

In week 24 of 2016, all 112 districts reported with an average reporting rate of 82.3% which is a more than 20% increase in reporting rate compared to the same week in 2015. An overall of 19.6% of the districts had 100% of all their health facilities reporting; 23 districts (21%) had all their healt...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Week%2024%202016.pdf
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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 133 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Pocket book of hospital care for children : Guidelines for the management of common illnesses, 2013 edition.

The Pocket book is part of a series of tools for improving the quality of care for severely ill children and is consistent with the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) guidelines for outpatient management of sick children. It is for use by doctors, senior nurses and other senior health...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Pocket%20book%20of%20Hospital%20care%20for...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 116 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The New National Guidelines (2010) for PMTCT and Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV

Guidance on PMTCT is provided regularly to countries by WHO.�Uganda launched the first PMTCT policy guidelines in 2002,following lessons learnt from the PMTCT pilot in 2000.�Main drug was sd NVP tab for mother in labour and baby within 72 hours after delivery,�AZT from 36 weeks of gestation, in labo...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20new%20PMTCT%20Guidelines-Dr.%20Esiru...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 160 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Wealth Report 2017

The declining power of governments to address society��s big problems brings the conversation on to wealth inequality, the issue that in one shape or another really drives most of the risks facing the world today. Last year, on these pages of The Wealth Report, our keynote interviewee, Lynn Forester...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20Global%20Wealth%20Report%202017.pdf
Theme: Data Analytics
Sub Theme: Poverty
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 1 day ago 151 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Cameroon

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

https://africacdc.org/download/finding-the-balance-public-health-and-social-measures-in-cameroon/?in...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 115 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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