Africa Mask Week 23-30 November 2020

The document titled Africa Mask Week 23-30 November 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 Africa, Southern Africa, Wes...

The Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin - Week 01: 31st December 2023 to 6th January 2024

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 every week.

Personal Protective Equipment for Different Clinical Settings and Activities

The document titled Personal Protective Equipment for Different Clinical Settings and Activities 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 Afric...

Electronic Human Resource Information System Access for Implementing Partners and all other Stakeholders 2017

The integrated Human Resource Information System (iHRIS) suite, is a management tool to supply leaders with the information they need to assess HR issues, plan effective interventions as well as to evaluate them. HR managers can solicit job applications for open positions, assign employees to fill p...

Management of Fetal Distress Without Cord Prolapse

Management of Fetal Distress Without Cord Prolapse

Compendium of Concepts and Definitions on Gender Statistics

Harmonization of concepts, definitions and terminologies is a prerequisite for quality statistics, and there is an urgent need for such action in Gender Statistics to increase its coherence and comparability. Uganda Bureau of Statistics periodically produces a Compendium of Statistical Concepts and...

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...

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (17 August 2021)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (17 August 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, Nor...

Strategies for managing acute shortages of personal protective equipment during COVID-19 pandemic

Preventing a crisis such as acute shortage of PPE for healthcare workers should be prioritised by health authorities in Africa, and in this context as part of the COVID-19 response. The COVID-19 response team or IPC team should include actions to prevent PPE shortages in their planning, as adequate...

Strengthening Logistics Preparedness for Infectious Disease Response in Uganda Baseline Report September 2021

Outbreaks of infectious diseases like Ebola virus disease (EVD), yellow fever, measles, or currently COVID-19, are regular occurrences in Uganda. If not detected early and effectively contained, these diseases threaten the health and economic well-being of the entire population, and beyond. Disease...

Africa CDC Procurement Process Mapping

Timeline – Slide 3economyHiring of Consulting Firms – Consultancy Services – Slide 4Procurement of Goods – Slide 5TimelineProcurement of Goods and Services under Workshop/Technical Assistance/Training – Slide 6

Ministerial policy statement 2014/15

The ministerial statement is about the vote functions of Ministry of health.

Management of waste from injection activities at district level : Guidelines for District Health Managers

This guide is designed as a simple and practical tool to help District Health Managers elaborate a realistic District level plan to reduce improper disposal of waste from injection activities.

How to integrate water, sanitation and hygiene into HIV programmes

This document is the first comprehensive guide to integrating WASH practices into HIV care. It was written in response to requests from countries and programmes for clear instruction on how to develop care programmes at the national level. It contains guidance on implementing priority WASH practices...

Policy Brief on Enhancement of Coordination in the Uganda Public Service

This policy brief provides information on enhancement of coordination for effective and efficient implementation of public policies aimed at transformation of the lives of citizens. It is to improve horizontal and vertical partnership/ collaboration for coherent implementation of public policies. It...

Birth and Emergency Preparedness Plan

Health worker to discuss with mother preferably in presence of spouse or person she lives with

Tunisia: a primary health care case study in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

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COMMUNITY USE OF FACE MASKS (2)

Background: According to current evidence, SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – is primarily transmitted from people with the disease through respiratory droplets and contact routes. There are increasing indications that people with asymptomatic, pre-symptomatic or early stages of infection...

Medical waste management

The manual includes data sheets in the Annex. It deals with wastes that are created in the course of surgical, medical, laboratory and radiological activities with the exception of specialties such as oncology, nuclear medicine or prosthetic/ orthotic workshops. It deals mainly with so-called hazard...

Policy Guidelines to Male Involvement in Sexual and Reproductive Health Service Delivery

The last 15 years have witnessed increasing global recognition of the importance of men��s involvement in RMNCAH-N, GBV/VAC, SRHR including HIV/TB. The urgency of encouraging men to take responsibility for their own SRH and their partner��s is gaining momentum. However, Uganda has not developed larg...