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...
The Health Sector Strategic and Investment Plan (HSSIP 2010/11-201/15) has been developed to guide the Health sector investments towards achieving medium term goals for health. This HSSIP provides the medium term strategic framework, and focus that the Government intends to pursue in regard to attai...
Pain in children is a public health concern of major significance in most parts of the world. Although the means and knowledge to relieve pain exists, children��s pain is often not recognized, is ignored or even denied. These guidelines address the pharmacological management of persisting pain in ch...
The document titled Abuja Declaration 2013 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, Western Africa,...
OTC provides home-based treatment and rehabilitation for clients who are severely, acutely malnourished but have appetite and are free of medical complications. This session will describe issues including criteria for entry and exit, activities in the OTC, link with other Care and planning and setti...
Accurate determination of iron status is crucial for diagnostic and screening purposes in the clinical setting and to guide public health interventions at the population level. In an individual patient, diagnosis of iron deficiency or overload will help guide management, including further investigat...
Investment in health systems so that they are able to extend coverage of health services to the world��s poor populations is increasingly recognized as an important contributor to saving lives, reducing poverty, spurring economic development and promoting global security (Commission on Macroeconomic...
This Nutrition Quarterly Bulletin focuses on the quarter (April to June 2020) of the fiscal year (FY) 2020/21. The rationale of preparing the Nutrition Quarterly Bulletin is to show performance on key nutrition indicators on the following aspects; reporting, Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and Moder...
The burden of disease due to malaria in Uganda is unacceptably high and the resistance of the malaria parasites to Chloroquine (CQ) and Sulfadoxine/Pyrimethamine (SP) has aggravated the situation. Because of this, in May 2004, the Ministry of Health decided to change the malaria treatment policy fro...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 88: 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...
The Corona Virus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) has continued to spread across the world leaving death and economic devastation in its wake. Although the number of confirmed cases in Uganda remain very low in comparison to other countries, the containment adopted to curb the spread of the virus have affect...
The Uganda Weekly Malaria status update is produced by National Malaria Control Program, WHO Country Office and Uganda Malaria Surveillance Project on a weekly basis to guide planning. This Status update uses weekly surveillance data
All stakeholders are being called on to coordinate, communicate, collaborate, and cooperate to support the PACT Initiative to control COVID-19 in Africa.
This interagency handbook was developed by the Roll Back Malaria(RBM) Technical Support Network on Complex Emergencies. It focuses on effective malaria control responses to complex emergencies, particularlyduring the acute phase when reliance on international humanitarian assistance is greatest. It...
This fourth MDG progress report for Uganda provides an overview of where Uganda stands in terms of progress towards attaining the MDGs, with emphasis on developments since the publication of the last progress report in 2010.
Uganda hosts approximately 1.1 million refugees making it Africa��s largest refugee hosting country and one of the five largest refugee hosting countries in the world. Most recently, throughout 2016-2018, Uganda was impacted by three parallel emergencies from South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of...
There is growing emphasis in the policy debate on rural women��s entrepreneurship as a poverty alleviation strategy and a preferred tactic to spur economic development. To this end, this synthesis report puts into perspective the nature of Uganda��s rural woman entrepreneurs, paying close attention...
The document titled Guidance on easing lockdown 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, Western Afri...
This publication discusses the rationale and relevance of clinical mentoring to the public health approach to scaling up HIV care and antiretroviral therapy (antiretroviral therapy). This discussion is based on the Planning Consultation on Clinical Mentoring: Approaches and Tools to Support Scaling-...
The journey towards transforming mental health care systems in Kenya has gathered momentum following the launch of the Kenya Mental Health Action Plan (2021-2025). Ministry of Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Dr. Mercy Mwangangi who unveiled the 74-page document on behalf of Health Cab...
