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COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (16 June 2020)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (16 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, North...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-16-june-2020/?ind...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 hour ago 153 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin - Week 24

This bulletin serves to inform all stakeholders at community, district and national levels on suspected disease trends, public health surveillance and interventions undertaken in detecting, preventing and responding to public health events in Uganda on a weekly basis. In this issue, we showcase the...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 19 hours ago 135 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Unsafe abortion Global and regional estimates of the incidence of unsafe abortion and associated mortality in 2000

Unsafe abortion is entirely preventable. Yet, it remains a significant cause of maternal morbidity and mortality in much of the developing world. Over the past decade, the World Health Organization has developed a systematic approach to estimating the regional and global incidence of unsafe abortion...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Unsafe%20abortion%202000.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 137 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Ministry of Health 2011 Statistical Abstract

The Ministry of Health has been producing the Annual Statistical Abstract since 2009. With support from UBOS and other implementing partners, the Annual Statistical Abstract is produced to highlight progress in the health sector basing on selected health indicators depending on the availability of d...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 2 days ago 176 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Malaria weekly Status report -Week 4, 2021 WEEK 25TH-31ST JANUARY 2021

Reporting rate this week was at 70.4% compared to 72.9% in the previous week. A total of 158, 188 malaria confirmed cases were reported, an increase by 3.5% in the previous week Test positivity rate was 49.7% compared to 50.2% last week. The highest Test positivity rates were reported in Busia (83%)...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Malaria%20weekly%20report%20Week%204%20202...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 19 hours ago 141 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Health Accounts for Uganda Tracking Expenditure in the Health Sector FY 1997/98

This report presents results from a study of Uganda��s National Health Accounts for the Fiscal Year 1997/98. The study set out to describe the flow of funds in Uganda��s healthcare system, including both public and private sectors. Using a comprehensive view of the health sector and standard definit...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20health%20accounts%20for%20Ugand...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 141 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Report: Expert and stakeholder virtual consultation meeting to develop the Africa CDC Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health Strategy

The meeting was organized by Africa CDC to bring all stakeholders together to reflect and provide recommendations on the key functional areas of the strategy development framework. The functional areas in which partnership, collaboration and health systems strengthening are needed for NCDs and menta...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence 1005

The thirty-eighth meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from 14 to 18 November 2016. Dr Suzanne Hill, Director, WHO Department of Essential Medicines and Health Products (EMP), opened the meeting. She welcomed all...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Who%20expert%20committee%20on%20drug%20dep...
Theme: Prevention
Sub Theme: Pharmaceuticals and Drugs
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 175 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Mapping Antimicrobial Resistance and Antimicrobial Use Partnership (MAAP) Country Reports

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...

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Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 159 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 39: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 39: 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-39-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=160...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 142 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

MoH, Weekly Executive Brief - Week 29

This brief provides an overview of; OPD attendance, notifiable diseases, other diseases of public health interest and�causes of death.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Weekly_Executive_Brief_wk29.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 18 hours ago 178 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Directive on Grievance Redress Mechanisms

1. A significant component of Africa CDC’s work is undertaken through projects implemented directly by Africa CDC or through Implementing, Partners. While the objectives of projects are aimed at producing positive impacts, they may also give rise to uncertainties, unintended consequences or action...

https://africacdc.org/download/directive-on-grievance-redress-mechanisms/?ind=1708158212958&filename...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 151 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Leadership For Primary Health Care

The extension of Health care to all people has been an objective of the national Health systems for many years and since the Alma-Ata confrence on Primary Health Care in 1978,Countries have pursued this aim with greater vigour.

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Theme: Emergency Preparedness
Sub Theme: Primary Health Care
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 157 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Enhanced COVID-19 Surveillance at the Community Level in Africa

The strategy recommends that AU Member States should enhance, where feasible, existing COVID-19 surveillance to include:To ensure successful implementation, testing and reporting considerations have been aligned with existing Africa CDC guidance on the implementation of rapid antigen testing and gen...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 167 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Integrated National Guidelines on Antiretroviral Therapy, Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV and Infant & Young Child Feeding.

The revised National guidelines on antiretroviral therapy, prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV and on infant and young child feeding contribute to the National Strategic Plan (NSP) and are targeted to reach all health providers who take care of HIV infected patients either directly or...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Integrated%20National%20Guidelines%20on%20...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 159 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Policy Brief for the Legal Framework on Infection Prevention and Control

2. RATIONALE FOR THE IPC LEGAL FRAMEWORK In October 2017, Africa CDC officially launched its Framework for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Control, 2018-2023. One major component of this strategy involves decreasing the burden of antimicrobial resistance, particularly in healthcare settings. In April...

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Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 131 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

District Laboratory Practice in Tropical Countries

Since the publication of the first edition of Part 2 District Laboratory Practice in Tropical Countries in 2000, the work of many district laboratories continues to be dominated by the on-going HIV/AIDS pandemic, increases in the prevalence of tuberculosis and other HIV-related infections and more r...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/District%20Laboratory%20Practice%20in%20Tr...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 168 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

State of the Environmental Report for Uganda 2010

The theme for this State of the Environment (SOE) Report is environment sustainability and health. The focus on health and environment underlines the growing recognition of the link between environmental sustainability and health outcomes. The focus is dual faced; first, several health management ac...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Environmental Health and Sanitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

World Development Report 2019, the changing nature of work

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...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/World%20Development%20Report%202019.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 20 hours ago 154 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Atlas of headache disorders and resources in the world 2011

Headache disorders are among the most common disorders of the nervous system, causing substantial ill-health and disability in populations throughout the world. Despite this, they are underestimated in scope and scale, and there is little recognition of their public-health impact. It is not known ho...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Atlas%20of%20headache%20disorders%20and%20...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Non-communicable diseases and risk factors
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 146 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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