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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%20%281%29_0....
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 28 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Essential Medicines and Health Products Annual Report 2015

2015 confirmed a significant recent trend in the flagship WHO Model List of Essential Medicines with groundbreaking new treatments for hepatitis C and a varietyof cancers included in the list despite their high prices. The list also included five new medicines for multidrug resistant tuberculosis (T...

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: 20 hours ago 31 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Mastercard Foundation: Saving Lives and Livelihoods Newsletter, August 2022

COVID-19 in Africa: Where we are today The following countries have surpassed the 70% vaccination target: Seychelles at 81.3%, Mauritius at 76.6% and Rwanda at 76.5%. Countries which have attained a target of between 40% and 70% include: Comoros, Lesotho, Liberia, Mozambique, Botswana, Cape Verde, T...

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cdc-mastercard-foundation-saving-lives-and-livelihoods-newslet...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 32 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda Bureau of Statistics, 2014 Statistical Abstract

The Statistical Abstract is an annual publication compiled by Uganda Bureau of Statistics, which provides the statistical summary on various socio-economic indicators for Uganda. Some figures in this edition may vary from those in the earlier editions due to the updates. Note that most of the 2013 a...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/UBOS%20Statistical%20Abstract%202014.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 1 day ago 35 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Malaria Report - Epi Week 9 (26th Feb to 3rd Mar 2024)

National statistical report on the malaria events of Epi Week 7, 2024.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Malaria%20Bulletin%20-%20Epi%20Week%209.pd...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 30 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Hygiene and Sanitation Software An Overview of Approaches

The terms ��hygiene�� and ��sanitation�� can mean different things to different people. For the purposes of this document the term ��sanitation�� is used to refer to the management of human excreta. The term ��hygiene�� is used to refer to the behaviours/ measures, including but beyond the managemen...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Hygiene%20an%20Sanitation%20Software%20201...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Environmental Health and Sanitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 30 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Malaria Indicator Survey 2014-15 Key Indicators

The 2014-15 Uganda Malaria Indicator Survey (2014-15 UMIS) was implemented by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) of the Uganda Ministry of Health from December 2014 to January 2015. The funding for the UMIS was provided by the United States Agenc...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Uganda%20Malaria%20indicator%20survey%2020...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 36 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme Revised National Strategic Plan 2015/16 - 2019/20

The Ministry of Health greatly acknowledges the contributions of various TB, TB/HIV and Leprosy stakeholders as well as institutions that supported the review of this five-year NTLP Strategic Plan, 2015/16 - 2019/20. The review was necessitated largely by the need to reflect the findings and program...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Revised%20NTLP-Stragetic%20Plan%20%282015-...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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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: 1 day ago 29 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Malaria Control Division - News Letter

This newsletter has been developed to update the public about the new developments in the fight against malaria in the country.�In this newsletter, we provide a highlight of a number of activities conducted in the last three months of the quarter.�Editor in chief:�Rukia Nakamatte

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Malaria%20Contro%20Division%20Q...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 18 hours ago 32 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Anaemia policy 2002

Anemia is defined as a lower than acceptable level of hemoglobin or haematocrit blood with respect to the individual.Anemia is the most wide spread nutrition related public health problem.Asia and Africa are the most affected regions with prevalence rates reaching 50% in women and children

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Anaemia%20Policy%202002_0.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 32 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Uganda Tuberculosis Communication Strategy

Ministry of Health emphasizes the need to promote health services with the aim of increasing access and utilization of the services. Prevention and control of Tuberculosis is one of the priority services of the health sector that has had inadequate promotion as a result of lack of communication stra...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20Uganda%20Tuberculosis%20Communicatio...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 hour ago 32 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

UBOS COVID_19 Information Series No. 20 Friday, May 15, 2020

it is now criminal to appear in public without a mask, breach of which attracts a penalty of 14 days in quarantine. This is after the Public Health (COVID-19) Rules, 2020 were amended on May 08, 2020 and signed off by the Health Minister, Hon. Dr Ruth Aceng.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/UBOS%20BULLETIN%20NO%2020%202020.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 24 hours ago 33 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Sexual and reproductive health - laying the foundation for a more just world through research and action Biennial Report 2004 2005

The attitudes of sexually active couples to contraception are shaped by various factors: prevailing social and cultural norms; their own assessment of the risks of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection; and their perce...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Sexual%20and%20reproductive%20health.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 31 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly malaria status - Uganda week 16, 2018.

This publication is about the malaria case statistics of Uganda in the 16th week of 2018.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Malaria%20Weekly%20Status%20Report.%20Week...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 33 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Strategic Response Plan West Africa Ebola Outbreak 2015

In August 2014, WHO drafted the Ebola Response Roadmap to set out the core strategy for stopping this unprecedented outbreak and to provide the basis for a significantly increased response. This was the basis for the UN system��s Overview of Needs and Requirements (ONR) and STEPP Strategy that follo...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/WHO%20Stratigic%20response%20plan%20west%2...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 32 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Mental Health (MOH Kenya)

The journey towards transforming mental health care systems in Kenya has gathered momentum following the launch of the Kenya Mental Health Action Plan (2021-2025). Ministry of Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Dr. Mercy Mwangangi who unveiled the 74-page document on behalf of Health Cab...

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Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 17 hours ago 118 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

iHRIS: Time and Attendance

The integrated Human Resource Information System (iHRIS) is a computerized Human Resources management tool consisting of electronic databases for storing, reporting, and analysing data from the time professionals enter preservice training to when they leave the workforce to ensure timely availabilit...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/HRIS_Time_and_Attendance_Aug2018.pdf
Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 hours ago 31 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: 6 hours ago 42 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Facility Assessment For Reproductive Health Commodities and Services Uganda, Survey Report 2014

In 2009, Uganda received support from the Global Program for Reproductive Health Commodity Security (GPRHCS) to assist the�Ministry of Health in developing a national strategy. The strategy focused on logistics management to improve the functionality of the national and district Reproductive Health...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Facility%20Assessment%20for%20Reproductive...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 40 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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