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Mental Health Policy and Service Guidance Package : Improving access and use of psychotropic medicines.

The guidance package consists of a series of interrelated user-friendly modules that are designed to address the wide variety of needs and priorities in policy development and service planning. The topic of each module represents a core aspect of mental health.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (25 August 2020)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (25 August 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, Nor...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 159 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Consolidated Guideline on Self-Care Interventions for Health Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

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...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 122 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The First Uganda National Nursing and Midwifery Policy

Like elsewhere in the world, nurses and midwives form the backbone of the health service delivery, constituting more than 60% of the health care work force in Uganda, (MOH, 2007). The quality and satisfaction with care largely depends on nurses and midwives in the health care system, (World Health A...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 11, 14th - 20th March, 2016

In week 11 2016, all the 112 districts (100%) reported, with an average reporting rate of 77.6%. However, this was 5.2% decline from the previous week. Only 13 districts had 100% all of their health facilities reporting, and 57 districts (51%) achieved the national target reporting rate of 80%. No d...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
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Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 52, 26th December - 1st January, 2017

During week 52, the proportion of health facilities that reported was 81% reflecting a 28.8% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2015. Only 14.7% (17/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 63.8% (74/116) of the districts achieved the national target...

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Communiqu of the Video-Teleconference (vtc) Meeting of the Bureau of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government extended to African Vaccine Manufacturing countries held on 1

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, Deputy Chairperson of the Commission H.E Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa and the Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Dr John Nkengasong, also participated in the teleconference Meeting. M...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 156 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Health Accounts for Uganda

This report presents results from a study of Uganda��s National Health Accounts for the Fiscal Year 1997/98.� The study set out to describe the flow of funds in Uganda��s healthcare system, including both public and private sectors.� Using a comprehensive view of the health sector and standard defin...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
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National Family Planning Advocacy Strategy Costed Implementation Plan 2020 - 2025

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...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
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Uganda National TB and Leprosy control program Report - FY2020/21

This report highlights the performance by regions and districts in key indicators and key activities�implemented in the financial year and prioritized activities for the financial year 2021/2022.

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 155 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Rural Women Entrepreneurship in Uganda a Synthesis Report on Policies, Evidence, and Stakeholders

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...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Statement on Covishield and the European Union (EU) Digital COVID Certificate Green Pass

According to official information (see sources below), while the goal is for EU Member States to issue vaccination certificates regardless of the COVID-19 vaccine type used, the granting of a “green pass” applies, only to vaccines that have received EU-wide marketing authorisation. Thus, while the A...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 132 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Western Africa Resources Dashboard

The Africa CDC Western Africa RCC Public Health Resources Dashboard provides a centralized, interactive overview of critical public health resources across the Western African region. Designed to support evidence-based decision-making, this dashboard enables public health professionals to assess...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Medical countermeasures
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The use of Rapid Syphilis Tests

Syphilis is a curable infection caused by a bacterium called Treponema pallidum. This infection is sexually transmitted, and can also be passed on from a mother to her fetus during pregnancy. As a cause of genital ulcer disease, syphilis has been associated with an increased risk of HIV transmission...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 20 Minutes ago 146 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Scale up of Medical Oxygen Implementation Plan 2018-2022

The National medical oxygen scale up implementation plan articulates a holistic approach to improving demand and supply of medical oxygen in Uganda. Specifically, the plan aims to put in place coherent and harmonized implementation of key interventions to achieve an optimal medical oxygen supply mod...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
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WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations 986

The WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations met in Geneva from 14 to 18 October 2013. Dr M.-P. Kieny, Assistant Director- General of Health Systems and Innovation at the World Health Organization (WHO), welcomed participants on behalf of the Director-General. Dr Kieny...

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Theme: Prevention
Sub Theme: Pharmaceuticals and Drugs
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Population Policy For Social Transformation and Sustainable Development

The Government of Uganda recognizes that its population is its most important asset.As H.E.President Museveni himself once declared,��The wealth of a country is not stones in the ground but� in its people�� (Yoweri Museveni in His Own Words, 2001)

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Guidance for the continuation of essential health services during COVID-19 pandemic

The document titled Guidance for the continuation of essential health services during 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, Easter...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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World Report on Vision 2019

The World report on vision seeks to stimulate action in countries to address these challenges by proposing integrated people-centred eye care (IPCEC) as an approach to health system strengthening that builds the foundation for service delivery to address population needs

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Disability and Rehabilitation
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Call for Review of the African Antibiotic Treatment Guidelines for Common Bacterial Infections and Syndromes

This is a call for relevant experts to serve as members of the External Review Group. The purpose of the external review is to ensure that the proposed guidance is appropriate, feasible, and accessible to healthcare workers and other relevant guideline users in Africa.The External Review Group will...

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