This wheel contains the medical eligibility criteria for starting use of contraceptive methods. It is based on Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 3rd edition (2004) and its 2008 Update, one of WHO��s evidence-based guidelines. It tells family planning providers if a woman presenting...
The Office views risk as the possibility of an event occurring that will influence the achievement of objectives. It assesses risk in terms of degree of impact and likelihood of occurrence. Methodical consideration of risk guides the Office��s prioritization of activities and provides a basis for wo...
Self-care interventions are among the most promising and exciting new approaches to improve health and well-being, both from a health systems perspective and for people who use these interventions. The World Health Organization (WHO) uses the following working definition of self-care: Self-care is t...
As one of the first countries in Africa where HIV was recognized, the effect of the AIDS epidemic in Uganda has been severe. AIDS was first reported in Rakai District in 1982, 180 km outside the capital city of Kampala. HIV rates increased rapidly throughout the country and by the late 1980s it appe...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 104: 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...
This document is to provide guidance to Local Governments (LGs) for budgeting and implementation of Health Service Delivery activities, utilizing the Primary Health Care (PHC) grants and other Decentralized Health Grants in Financial Year (FY) 2023/24. These guidelines should also be used to prepare...
The Ministry of Health in collaboration with all key stakeholders and health development partners have conducted a Mid Term Review (MTR) of the progress in implementation of the Health Sector Development Plan (HSDP). The HSDP was developed and approved as the Health Sector planning framework within...
This is a 1st April 2019 stock status report with stock on hand data as of 31st March 2019. Warehouse data utilized includes information from NMS, JMS, MAUL, JCRC and UHMG. The PNFP sector: JMS is well stocked with most of the commodities having over 3 months of stock except DTG 50mg and NVP 50mg ta...
The 2018 World Disasters Report asks challenging questions of affected states, admittedly overburdened donors, and local and international humanitarian organizations. It includes a strong call for more, for better and for more equitable, funding and action to meet the rising needs. It also calls for...
The new year started on a great note with 100% of the districts reporting and 82.6% of the health facilities reporting as shown in the table above. This depicts a 27.1% increase in reporting rate in as compared to the same week in 2016. Only 14.7% (17/116) of the districts had 100% of their health f...
Good governance and management of health services is a key element in ensuring effectiveness and efficiency in the health sector. The governance and managemnet structures described in the health Sector Strategic and Investment Plan intends to establish a substantive sector wide governance mechanism.
The Annual Health Sector Performance Report (AHSPR) highlights progress, challenges, and lessons learnt and proposes mechanisms for improvement. The report focuses on the progress in implementation of commitments in the Ministerial Policy Statement, overall sector performance against the targets se...
In 1997, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children��s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) issued a Joint Statement on Female Genital Mutilation (WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, 1997) which described the implications of the practice for public health and human righ...
The leading global risks for mortality in the world are high blood pressure (responsible for 13% of deaths globally), tobacco use (9%), high blood glucose (6%), physical inactivity (6%), and overweight and obesity (5%). These risks are responsible for raising the risk of chronic diseases such as hea...
Geographic Focus: Reports could either focus on events affecting single country or multiple countries.Inclusion criteria: While Africa CDC continues to track all public health events on the continent, this report highlights only moderate to very high-risk events (with new updates in the reporting we...
This document summarizes the evidence for effective action, and encourages policy makers and programmers to turn concern and commitment into effective and sustainable action. It is based on an understanding that HIV infects people when they are young, but AIDS affects and kills people at an age when...
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. We are faced now with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late��We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her pa...
This is the report of the Sixth Meeting of Directors, Commissioners and Undersecretaries Forum which took place at the Office of the President, Conference Hall on 5th November 2019. The purpose of the meeting was information sharing, knowledge and experience exchange, and peer learning for improved...
The Essential Medicines and Health Supplies List for�Uganda (EMHSLU) 2023 reflects the policy of the�Ministry of Health, for the appropriate procurement�of safe and efficacious essential medicines, health and�laboratory supplies in public institutions.�The EMHSLU 2023 was compiled based on�recommend...
