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National Annual Maternal and Perinatal Death Report FY 2022/2023

MPDSR emphasizes continuous�identification and reporting of maternal�and perinatal deaths including zero�for none registered and utilising�that information to facilitate Quality�Improvement (QI) processes. The national�MPDSR annual report FY 2022/23 is a result�of concerted efforts of health workers...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 135 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 42, 17th - 23rd October, 2016

In Week 42 of 2016, the proportion of health facilities that reported this week was 85.9% representing a 40.8% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2015. Since week 1 of 2016, there has been a steady national reporting rate of 80% and above. Only 16.4% (19/116) districts had...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Week%2042%202016.pdf
Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 137 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Status of Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council 2018

When modern medicine was introduced in Uganda by Dr Albert Cook in 1897,the colonial government enacted instruments to guide the profession by 1933. The profession has since undergone several acts. Currently council is being guided by UMDPC Act 1998.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20status%20of%20Uganda%20Medical%20and...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 149 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 26: COVID-19 Pandemic 14 July 2020

As of 9 am EAT 14 July 2020, a total of 610,807 COVID-19 cases and 13,456 (CFR: 2%) deaths have been reported in 54 African countries. This is 5% of all cases reported globally. Since the last brief (2020), 118,183 new COVID-19 cases have been reported, which is a 24% increase compared to the 7 July...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-26-covid-19-pandemic-14-july-2020/?ind=1594911586889&f...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 136 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Tracking Universal Health Coverage: 2017 Global Monitoring Report

A number of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015 have targets that relate to health. However, one goal - SDG 3 - focuses specifically on ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages. Target 3.8 of SDG 3 -...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 20 hours ago 116 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (02 November 2020)

A. Executive summary • An unbiased, genome-wide screening technology determines the precise peptide sequences in SARS-CoV-2 that are recognized by the memory CD8+ T cells of COVID-19 patients. Results show CD8+ T Cells of COVID-19 Patients recognize shared epitopes in SARS-CoV-2 that largely reside...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-02-november-2020/...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 110 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidelines for Governance and Management structures

Good governance and management of health services is a key element in ensuring effectiveness and efficiency in the health sector. The governance and managemnet structures described in the health Sector Strategic and Investment Plan intends to establish a substantive sector wide governance mechanism.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 144 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Assessing Tuberculosis Prevalence through Population - based surveys

Tuberculosis (TB) prevalence surveys are most valuable in areas where notification data obtained through routine surveillance are of unproven accuracy or incomplete, and in areas with an estimated prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed TB of more than 100 per 100 000. To help in assessing the per...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 132 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Poverty Eradication Action Plan (2004/5-2007/8)

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...

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Theme: Data Analytics
Sub Theme: Poverty
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 1 hour ago 166 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Essential Medicines Reproductive Health:Guiding Principles for Their Inclusion on National Medicines Lists

After immunisation for common childhood illnesses, appropriate use of essential medicines is one of the most cost-effective components of modern health care.2 In 1977, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched its first list of essential medicines. The model list was designed to prioritise the mo...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 28 Minutes ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (06 October 2020)

A. Executive summary • Two preprint studies demonstrated that SARS-CoV2 D614G substitution enhances infectivity, replication fitness, and early transmission in hamsters. Findings indicate the D614G variant exhibited significantly faster droplet transmission between hamsters and clinical evidence tha...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-06-october-2020/?...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 133 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Adapted Africa Joint Continental Strategy for COVID-19 Pandemic

Although the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been slower in many African countries when compared to the global level, the continental case-fatality ratio is now higher than the global rate. Almost all African Union Member States have experienced at least two waves of cases, with most experiencing...

https://africacdc.org/download/adapted-africa-joint-continental-strategy-for-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 166 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

malaria quarterly bulletin

The aim of this bulletin is to inform district,national, and global stake-holders on progress achieved and challenges encountered in malaria control and reduction in Uganda. Most importantly, it is to encourage use of this information at all levels in order to foster improvement of our efforts and t...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 151 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Provider Initiated HIV Counselling and Testing in Clinical Settings : Participants 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...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Chronic Diseases in Canada Volume 30 Number 2 March 2010

Chronic Diseases in Canada (CDIC) is a quarterly scientific journal focussing on current evidence relevant to the control and prevention of chronic (i.e. non-communicable) diseases and injuries in Canada. Since 1980 the journal has published a unique blend of peer-reviewed feature articles by autho...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Chronic%20diseases%20in%20canada%202010.pd...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Non-communicable diseases and risk factors
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 157 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

MOH Stock Status Report AS At 1st April 2020

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...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/MOH%20SSR%201st%20April%202020_Final%5B344...
Theme: Prevention
Sub Theme: Pharmaceuticals and Drugs
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 117 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

MOH BiMonthly Medicines Stock Status Summary Report as at 1st June 2021

This report aims to inform the Ministry of Health and all stakeholders of the Uganda��s stock levels at Central warehouses to enable appropriate strategic and logistics decisions. The report highlights stock status, challenges, bottlenecks and recommends potential solutions to mitigate stock outs an...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/MOH%20Bimonthly%20SSR%20June%202021_Final_...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 136 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 41: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

As of 9 am East African Time (EAT) 27 October 2020, a total of 1,728,682 COVID-19 cases and 41,623 deaths (CFR: 2.4%) have been reported in 55 African Union (AU) Member States. This is 4% of all cases reported globally. Of the countries actively reporting COVID-19 epidemiologic data, thirteen countr...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-41-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=160...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 137 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 116: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 116: 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-116-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=16...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda Clinical Guidelines 2016

The Uganda Clinical Guidelines (UCG) evolved from the National Standard Treatment Guidelines 1993, which were the first of the type published in Uganda. Before then, individual guidelines existed to manage a limited number of specific conditions. The purpose of national standard treatment guidelines...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 174 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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