During Week 46 of 2016, the proportion of health facilities that reported this week was 78.1% indicating a 24.2% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2015. Only 10.3% (12/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 51.7% (60/116) of the districts achieved...
Adolescents, as defined by the World Health Organization, are individuals aged 10-19 years. Adolescence is a period characterized by rapid biological, emotional and social changes and development. Twenty five percent (25%) of Uganda��s 34.6 million population are adolescents, who are faced with soci...
The M&E Plan will be a key performance management tool for the NSP; it details how data will be aggregated from M&E systems of key sectors and provided to enable reporting against the NDP as well as global targets. Performance monitoring of the NSP is an on-going process that allows decision-makers...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 69: 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...
This epidemiological bulletin serves to inform all stakeholders at district, national, and global levels on disease trends, public health surveillance and interventions undertaken in detecting, preventing and responding to public health events in the country on a weekly basis. In this issue, we brin...
The Uganda Food and Nutrition Policy has been formulated within the context of the overall national development policy objective of eradicating poverty as spelt out in the Poverty Eradiation Action Plan (PEAP), and is in consonance with other policies already formulated by government
This third WHO report anticipates the investments needed as countries graduate from low-income to middle-income status and as the world��s focus expands from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals.
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.
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.
Malaria has been the leading cause of sickness and death in Uganda, claiming over 150 lives daily.�However efforts by Government in partnership with donors from the international community to combat the disease through the increased access and use of Long Lasting Insecticide Nets (LLIN) among the po...
The Government of Uganda regards Health as a fundamental human right. Good health of citizens is an indispensable prerequisite for socio-economic stability and sustainable development of a country. The Ministry of Health recognizes that good health is not a product of the health sector alone, but a...
The document titled Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Programme offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa, Western Africa, providin...
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the biggest cause of death worldwide. More than 17 million people died from CVDs in 2008. More than 3 million of these deaths occurred before the age of 60 and could have largely been prevented. The percentage of premature deaths from CVDs ranges from 4% in high...
Haftom Taame Desta*, Nicaise Ndembi, Fai Karl, Howard Nyika, Grace Merekaje, Emmanuel Idigbe, Killian Songwe, Joshua Obasanya, Placido Cardoso, Ngashi Ngongo, Raji Tajudeen, Jean KaseyaAfrica Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), African UnionIntroduction: By linking key component...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 154: 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 job aide is a detailed step-by-step procedure used�to implement daily monitoring of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) symptoms in hospitalised�patients.� It is a very important procedure because patients may have no symptoms of EVD on screening/triage and admission. However, these symptoms may develop�...
The document titled Outbreak Brief Number 11: COVID-19 Pandemic – 31 March 2020 offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa, Western Af...
Laws are foundational to public health practice.*, Laws establish and delineate the missions of public health agencies, provide authority and scope of public health functions, and appropriate necessary funds. Law, along with epidemiology, is an essential tool in public health practice. Increasingly...
We are pleased to share our 48th weekly epidemiological bulletin for the year 2020. This epidemiological bulletin serves to inform all stakeholders at district, national, and global levels on disease trends, public health surveillance and interventions undertaken in detecting, preventing and respond...
An Act to� provide for compulsory Immunisation of children, women of reproductive age and other target groups against immunisable diseases, to establish the Immunisation Fund and to provide for other incidental matters.
