From their beginning, robots were intended to replace humans in the workplace. In fact, Karel Cˇapek, the Czech writer who invented the word robot in 1920, used the Slavic-language word for work, robota, to make it clear what these machines would be used for. Over the last century, machines have rep...
By the end of 2020 the world saw a renewed hope as approved vaccines became available to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Africa CDC committed itself into exploring every available option to make sure that Africa is not left behind in accessing this life saving treatment. The African Vaccine Acquisitio...
This publication is about the adoption of the surge initiative to rapidly increase the number of individuals enrolled on Antiretroviral treatment to meet national targets for HIV epidemic control with six priority implementation areas emphasized in the innitial phase.
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (02 March 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, Nort...
This Ministerial Policy Statement (MPS), as in the case before, was prepared within the context of the Sector Wide Approach (SWAP). In a participatory framework, the Health Sector Budget Working Group worked with respective votes to compile the sector performance for FY 2009/10 and identified the Se...
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. We are faced now with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late��We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her pa...
The document titled Ebola Virus Disease Response in the Democratic Republic of Congo 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, Weste...
The reporting rate remained almost the same 75.1% in this week from 75.2% in last week. A total of 132,442 malaria confirmed cases were reported, decreased by 36.6% from 96,942 in the previous week. Test positivity rate this week was 49.6% compared to 48.6% last week. The highest Test positivity rat...
The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is one tool for measuring progress against SDG 1. It compares acute multidimensional poverty for more than 100 countries and 5.7 billion people and monitors changes over time.
Sick Child Job Aid is a useful guide that enables the health worker to gather information about the sick child both at the health facility and while in the community.
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (08 December 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, N...
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 br...
The new year started on a great note with 100% of the districts reporting and 82.6% of the health facilities reporting as shown in the table above. This depicts a 27.1% increase in reporting rate in as compared to the same week in 2016. Only 14.7% (17/116) of the districts had 100% of their health f...
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 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...
General Instructions on how to Use an Infrared Thermometer.
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – 9 June 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...
The reporting rate decreased to 71.2% this week from 73.2% in last week. A total of 141,835 malaria confirmed cases were reported, a decrease by 0.3% from 142,303 last week. Test positivity rate this week was 52.3% compared to 51.6% last week. The highest Test positivity rates were reported in Buteb...
An Act to protect the privacy of the individual and personal data by regulating the collection and processing of personal information; to provide for the rights of the persons whose data is collected and the obligations of data collectors, data processors and data controllers; to regulate the use or...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 121: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic 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, Weste...
