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The Lighthouse A centre for comprehensive HIV/AIDS treatment and care in Malawi

The Lighthouse Trust was established in 2001 to provide a continuum of quality care and counselling as well as to improve the quality of life of people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, including the terminally ill, in Lilongwe.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 127 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Communique of the High-Level Emergency Ministerial Meeting on Cross Border Collaboration for and Response to Ebola Virus Disease

Kampala, 12th October 2022

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 19 hours ago 130 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Position Statement on Transmission of SARS-CoV-2

The document titled Position Statement on Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 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 Africa, Southern...

https://africacdc.org/download/position-statement-on-transmission-of-sars-cov-2/?ind=1594637720346&f...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 126 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Where There Is No Dentist

A healthy tooth is a living part of the body. It is connected by ��life-lines�� of blood and nerve to a person��s heart and brain. To separate the tooth from the body, or even to interrupt those ��life-lines��, means death to the tooth. It also means pain and injury to the body, to the person

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Where%20there%20is%20no%20dentist.pdf
Theme: Emergency Preparedness
Sub Theme: Primary Health Care
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 171 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Policy for Mainstreaming Occupational Health and safety in the Health Sector

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Policy%20for%20Mainstreaming%20occupationa...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 156 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Nutrition Program Report - Monthly Health Facility, April 2023

This document is a statistical report highlighting the performance of the key nutrition program indicators for the month of April 2023.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Nutrition%20Monthly%20Report_April%20%2020...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 160 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda Malaria Indicator Survey 2009

This report presents the findings from the Uganda Malaria Indicator Survey (UMIS) directed by ICF Macro under a contract with the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), the Uganda Malaria Surveillance Project Molecular Laboratory at Mulago Hospital, and the National Malaria Control Programme of the Uga...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Malaria%20indicator%20survey%202009.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 170 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin Week 49: 2nd -8th Dec 2019

This weekly epidemiological bulletin serves to inform all stakehold-ers at district, national, and global levels on disease trends, public health surveillance and interventions undertaken in detecting, pre-venting and responding to public health events in the country on a weekly basis. In this issue...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/week_49_Epi_bulletin%20%281%29.pdf
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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 151 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Wizara ya Afya Tanzania

The President Of The United Republic Of Tanzania Issued A...

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Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 2 days ago 281 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Medicines policy

The development of this National Medicines Policy (NMP) 2015 has been informed by the second National Health Policy (NHP) 2010, the Health Sector Development Plan (HSDP) 2015- 2020, the current state of the pharmaceutical sector and global health

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 143 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (14 September 2022)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (14 September 2022) 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-14-september-2022...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 154 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Selection and use of Essential Medicines 985

The 19th meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 8 to 12 April 2013. The report was approved by the Committee on 1 October 2013. The purpose of the meeting was to review and update the 17th WHO Model List of Essentia...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20Selection%20and%20Use%20of%20Essenti...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 9, 27th February - 5th March, 2017

The proportion of health facilities that reported was 81.4% reflecting a 7.8% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2016. Only 15.5% (18/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 60.3% (70/116) of the districts achieved the national target of 80%. Only o...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Week%209%202017.pdf
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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa Region Subject Matter Expert (Af-RSME) under the Regional Training and Certification Program for Biosafety and Biosecurity Professionals in the Africa Region

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiative was launched by the Africa CDC in April 2019 with the aim of strengthening the African Union (AU) Member States’ biosafety and biosecurity systems and enabling them to comply with national and int...

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Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 188 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Lab success story; No more guesswork: Lab staff and patients benefit from Lab SPARS

The Apapai Health Centre IV laboratory in Serere district, Eastern Uganda, is busy today with ten patients waiting to have their lab tests taken. The laboratory technician, Samuel Oule, is confident that he has enough of the right laboratory supplies to run tests for all the patients he will see tod...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Lab%20spars%20success%20story.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 131 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidance for Awake Prone Ventilation in the non-intubated Conscious Patient

This document provides guidance for African Union Member States on the use of awake prone positioning in non-intubated coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients. It is intended for use among clinicians taking care of moderate to severe COVID-19 cases. The COVID-19 outbreak has brought with it the need...

https://africacdc.org/download/guidance-for-awake-prone-ventilation-in-the-non-intubated-conscious-p...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 161 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Malaria weekly status, week 45, 2019

Reporting rate this week was 77% which is low compared to the previous week (78.5% ) There were over 967 more malaria cases this week (189,661)com-pared to the previous week(188,694).This week,33 malaria deaths were reported. This is low compared to the previous week (43 malaria death). Hoima ,Nebbi...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Malaria%20weekly%20report%20week%2045%5B29...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 days ago 160 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors in Uganda: A National Cross Sectional Study report 2017

Adolescents, as defined by the World Health Organization, are individuals aged 10-19 years. Adolescence is a period characterized by rapid biological, emotional and social changes and development. Twenty five percent (25%) of Uganda��s 34.6 million population are adolescents, who are faced with soci...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Adolescent Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 158 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Family Planning Research and Learning Agenda for Uganda 2021-2025

This Family Planning (FP) Research and Learning Agenda presents a great opportunity for the country to tailor future research to respond to key FP evidence gaps; synthesize, package, and promote the use of existing evidence to ensure future investments are evidence-based; harmonize stakeholder effor...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Uganda%20Family%20Planning%20Research%20Le...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 149 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Prevention and Management of Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disease characterized by low bone density and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue with a consequent increase in bone fragility (4). Early osteoporosis is not usually diagnosed and remains asymptomatic; it does not become clinically evident until fractu...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Prevention%20and%20management%20of%20Osteo...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Non-communicable diseases and risk factors
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 177 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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