According to the Health Sector Development Plan 2015/16-2019/20, the trend of family planning services in Uganda is improving. However, although the adolescent fertility rate, the unmet need for family planning, and the contraceptive prevalence rate are all rising, the rate at which these improvemen...
A WHO Technical Consultation on Antimalarial Combination Therapy was held in Geneva, Switzerland on 4 and 5 April 2001. Participants reflected a wide range of expertise in the development and use of antimalarial drugs (Annex 1).
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...
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...
This Weekly Malaria report is a statistical representation of the different malaria activities across the various administrative levels of the health sector.
Uganda faces a high burden of tuberculosis (TB), but accurate estimates of the burden of TB in the country were unavailable. A national prevalence survey was therefore conducted from October 2014 to July 2015 to achieve the primary objective of estimating the prevalence of bacteriologically confirme...
This report provides a�monthly update on key�program indicators in the�health sector.
This research report is one of the policy analyses prepared by ACODE to assess the governance of public expenditure (hereafter, public expenditure governance or PEG) in Uganda��s health, road, education and agriculture sectors. The report is premised against the dimensions of governance elaborated i...
The Guide emphasises practical teaching, projects, and acquisition of skills by the learner. The competences that learners are expected to acquire are clearly spelt out in each module covered in the semester. You should ensure that learners are well-versed with practical work. The teaching methodolo...
The report contains the best available scientific evidence about strategies to reduce the incidence of spinalcord injury, particularly from traumatic causes. The report also discusses how the health system can respond effectively to people who are injured. Finally, the report discusses how personal...
This report is an account of all that happened during the First Edition of the National Digital Health Conference held on the 13th and 14th of November 2023 at Kampala Serena Hotel. The main objective of the conference was to discuss Uganda��s progress in implementing digital health initiatives and...
This manual reviews what is known about the prevalence and consequences of youth violence, the underlying risk factors and scientific studies on the effectiveness of youth violence prevention programmes. It also provides brief notes on how to strengthen youth violence prevention efforts. The prevent...
Health workers are central to improving health system performance. According to the Annual Health Sector Performance Report (2016) public sector health facility staffing was 71% and PNFP staffing was 73%. The health workers in the PNFP sector are mainly comprised of support or para-clinical staff. S...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 130: 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 report highlights the global nature of malnutrition and the successes and bottlenecks in addressing it. Malnutrition continues to affect the lives of millions of children and women worldwide. Every country is affected by some form of nutrition problem. This calls for countries to put in place a...
The National Strategic Framework (NSF) for HIV/AIDS Activities in Uganda was developed to cover the period 2000/01-2005/05. Late in 2003, a forward looking Mid Term Review (MTR) of the NSF was undertaken to assess progress and to identify gaps and emerging issues in implementation of the NSF. This c...
In 1995, the WHO Expert Committee on the Use of Essential Drugs recommended that WHO develop a Model Formulary which would complement the WHO Model List of Essential Drugs (the ��Model List��). It was considered that such a WHO Model Formulary would be a useful resource for countries wishing to deve...
Since the publication of the first edition of Part 2 District Laboratory Practice in Tropical Countries in 2000, the work of many district laboratories continues to be dominated by the on-going HIV/AIDS pandemic, increases in the prevalence of tuberculosis and other HIV-related infections and more r...
This Health Facility Master List is a complete listing of both public and private health facilities in the country. There are 6,937 health facilities and each are established under unique administrative units i.e. Region, district, health sub-district, sub-county etc. The need to uniquely identify...
As of 9 a.m. East African Time (EAT) 28 September 2021, a total of 8,283,763 COVID-19 cases and 210,435 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-five (45%) AU Member States are rep...
