The document titled Outbreak Brief 85: 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 A...
The three strategic priorities of WHO stated in its Thirteenth General Programme of Work 2019-2023 are to advance universal health coverage, address health emergencies and promote healthier populations (1). The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines contains the medications considered to be the most...
The Global status report on road safety 2018, launched by WHO in December 2018, highlights that the number of annual road traffic deaths has reached 1.35 million. Road traffic injuries are now the leading killer of people aged 5-29 years. The burden is disproportionately borne by pedestrians, cyclis...
In this edition, the Division of Health Information brings you exciting updates from the Digital Health Conference that was held on the 13th and 14th of November at the Kampala Serena Hotel. The theme of the conference was ��Leveraging digital health to improve efficiency in service delivery.��
From the reviews of Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) submissions to Cabinet, a number of gaps were identified. The gaps included; poor problem identification, poor options analysis and poor structuring of some reports which had resulted into selection of inefficient, ineffective and irrelevant opt...
As of 6 p.m. East African Time (EAT) 16 May 2022, a total of 11,559,637 COVID-19 cases and 252,641 deaths (CFR: 2.2%) have been reported by the 55 African Union (AU) Member States (MS). This represents 2% of all cases and 4% of all deaths reported globally. Forty (73%) AU MS are reporting CFRs highe...
This manual is the result of cooperation between many people. I would like to thank all those who have contributed in any way to its preparation, in particular, the members of the working group which met in Dundee, Scotland in November, 1978 and established the main guidelines for the first edition.
This is the seventh HRH audit report and is intended to provide the health sector with up-to-date information on the current staffing in the health sector. It includes detailed human resources for health (HRH) staffing data on all public and, for the first time, private-not-for-profit (PNFP) facilit...
IPC Action Plan Development presentation is one of the EVD IPC training materials for HC II and pharmacies.
The document titled Outbreak Brief 66: 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 A...
The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its 108th (Centenary) Session on 10 June 2019, and Recalling that the Declaration of Philadelphia affirms that all human beings,...
Regional Referral Hospitals fall under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Health. They specialized clinical services such as medicine, surgery, paediatric, and obstetrics and gynaecology. In addition, they psychiatry; ear, nose, and throat; ophthalmology, and clinical support services (labor...
Uganda has made great strides in reducing overall HIV incidence, AIDS related mortality, new infections among infants, and HIV prevalence. While the current improvements have been made, the scope, coverage and intensity of interventions are still inadequate to move the country to epidemic control an...
In order to properly guide Member States, the Africa Regulatory Taskforce has developed a framework(https://africacdc.org/download/guidance-on-emergencyexpedited-regulatory-authorisation-and-access-to-covid-19-vaccines-in-africa/) for market authorisation of COVID-19 vaccines, which include three sc...
This job aide is a detailed step-by-step procedure for PPE screening and triage in the context of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
Goals are different depending on the timing of the visit. Minimum 8 contacts are aimed for in an Uncomplicated pregnancy. If a woman books later than in first trimester, preceding goals should be combined and attended to. At all visits address any identified problems, check the BP and measure the Sy...
MAAP reviewed 819,584 AMR records from 2016-2019, from 205 laboratories across Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Eswatini, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. MAAP also reviewed data from 327 hospital and community pharmacies and 16 national-lev...
Preparing for and protecting against public health threats is a key aspect of GOU's mission. In order to attain a resilient nation to disasters depends on how well the Government is prepared, organized, and coordinated. The emergency could be acute or evolving in form of disease outbreak, natural�di...
Anemia is a widespread public health problem associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality, especially in pregnant women and young children. It is a disease with multiple causes, both nutritional (vitamin and mineral deficiencies) and non-nutritional (infection) that frequently co-occ...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 110: 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...
