The World health statistics 2020 report is the latest annual compilation of health statistics for 194 Member States.1 It summarizes trends in life expectancy and causes of death and reports on progress towards the health and healthrelated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets.T...
The document titled Hand washing facility options for resource limited settings 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 Afric...
As of 9am East African Time (EAT) 22 September 2020, a total of 1,412,310 COVID-19 cases and 34,072 deaths (CFR: 2.4%) have been reported in 55 African countries. This is 5% of all cases reported globally. Since the last brief, 52,586 new COVID-19 cases have been reported, which is a 2% decrease in...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (05 January 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...
The development of this Strategy on Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) has been possible thanks to the valued support and contributions of many individuals and organizations across multiple time zones. A special note of appreciation goes to each and every one of them. Firstly, to the 29 membe...
The 26th Health Sector JRM was organised on the 24th-25th November, 2020 by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with Health Development Partners, Cival Society and the Private Sector. The Theme of the JRM was '' Sustaining Health Care gains amidst the COVID-19 pandemic to achieve the Universal H...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 96: 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...
"Ebola threatens everything that makes us human," says Bruce Aylward of World Health Organisation. With calm measure, Bruce walks us through how the Ebola epidemic exploded.
Globally, concerns about declining public service delivery have put Governments at a critical point of the national sustainable development agendas. There has been rediscovery of the role of public institutions in the drive for sustainable development and democracy. There is no doubt that public ser...
These guidelines are developed to support the onboarding process of health workers, promote their levels of engagement and improve the rate of retention. This is against the background that the Ministry of Health planned to conduct massive recruitment at all levels of health service delivery. Curren...
The global community has embarked on an historic quest to lay the foundation for the eventual end of the AIDS epidemic. This effort is more than merely visionary. It is entirely feasible. Unprecedented gains have been achieved in reducing the number of both adults and children newly infected with HI...
The document titled Know Your Epidemic through COVID-19 Testing 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 Afri...
The National malaria Control policy provides a framework and environment within the overall context of the national health policy and the health sector strategic and investment plan of the country for sustainable malaria prevention and control.
This Ministerial Policy Statement (MPS) was prepared within the context of the Sector Wide Approach (SWAP). In a participatory framework, the Health Sector Budget Working Group worked with respective votes to compile the sector performance for FY 2010/11 and identified the Sector priorities for FY 2...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (28 July 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...
Uganda has made significant progress in improving FP outcomes. However, a number of challenges and evidence gaps still exist. As Uganda moves toward setting the next targets for its Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan (CIP) for 2020-2025, there is a need to elucidate evidence gaps and generat...
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...
Tuberculosis (TB) prevalence surveys are most valuable in areas where notification data obtained through routine surveillance are of unproven accuracy or incomplete, and in areas with an estimated prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed TB of more than 100 per 100 000. To help in assessing the per...
As of 9 a.m. East African Time (EAT) 5 October 2021, a total of 8,343,967 COVID-19 cases and 212,484 deaths (CFR: 2.5%) have been reported in 55 African Union (AU) Member States. This represents 3.6% of all cases and 4.4% of all deaths reported globally. Twenty-seven (49%) AU Member States are repor...
Guidance on PMTCT is provided regularly to countries by WHO.�Uganda launched the first PMTCT policy guidelines in 2002,following lessons learnt from the PMTCT pilot in 2000.�Main drug was sd NVP tab for mother in labour and baby within 72 hours after delivery,�AZT from 36 weeks of gestation, in labo...
