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IPC | Legal Framework, Background and Annotations

As such, healthcare facilities play a key role in effective preparedness and response. By ensuring IPC standards are implemented appropriately, healthcare facilities can provide safe services not only on a daily basis but also when there is a surge in healthcare need.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Infection Prevention
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Malaria weekly Status report Uganda Week 7 11th to 17th Feb 2019

Reporting rate this week (78%) represents no change from the previous week, 2019W6 (77.8%) Generally, there marginal drop in malaria incidence continued from previous weeks. As was last week, Adjumani (12 cases) & Moyo (24 cases) Districts reported incidence rates >10 cas-es/1,000 population, with t...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
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The Millennium Development Goals Report 2011

This report is about the strategies that have been made to ensure that the MDGs have been attained by the year 2015.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Outbreak Brief 16: COVID-19 Pandemic 5 May 2020

As of 9 am EAT 05 May 2020, a total of 47,118 COVID-19 cases and 1,843 (CFR: 4%) deaths have been reported in 53 African countries. Since the last brief, the number of COVID-19 cases has increased by 42% (13,845 cases).

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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Review of Implementation of the Ministry of Health Work Plan for 3rd and 4th Quarters 2019/20 FY (Jan to June 2020)

The workshop to review the implementation of the Ministry of Health (MoH) work plan for the third and fourth quarters for 2019/20 financial year (FY) will take place between October 6-8, 2020 in Kampala. The main objective of the workshop is to review implementation of the MoH work plan for Departme...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
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Nutrition Country Profile

This Nutrition Country Profile of the Republic of Uganda was prepared by Dr. Joyce Kakuramatsi Kikafunda, Associate Professor of Food and Nutritional Sciences at the Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, in collaboration with Estelle...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Evaluation of Certain Food Additives Report 1014, 2019

The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) met in Geneva from 12 to 21 June 2018. The meeting was opened by Dr Kazuaki Miyagishima, Director of the Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses of the World Health Organization (WHO), on behalf of WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghe...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Implementing the WHO stop TB strategy : A handbook for national tuberculosis control programmes

This publication draws upon current guidelines and information documents issued by the World Health Organization (WHO), which provide more detailed guidance on implementation for each of the specific subject areas. The listed references are limited to key readings for implementation of programme act...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Married adolescents : No place of safety.

This publication is about the negative effect of early marriages on adolescents.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Adolescent Health
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Mpox Molecular Diagnostic Tests(RT-PCR)

On 13 August 2024, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared the ongoing Mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS). This was followed the next day by the World Health Organization (WHO), which extended the alert internationally as a public...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other 3 Likes
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Refugee Health Report August 2018

Surveillance system has been modified from weekly to daily following the Ebola outbreak in the neighboring DRC. New arrivals are being screened for Ebola at all entry points into Uganda and no case has been reported in Uganda by end of August 2018. 218,072 consultations were made across all the heal...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Schemes of Service for the Nursing and Midwifery Cadre

The Uganda Nurses and Midwives Act (1996) section 2 defines a nurse and a midwife as ��persons trained and qualified in the promotion of health, prevention of disease and care of the sick and registered or enrolled under section 24 of the same Act��. A nurse or midwife therefore provides holistic ca...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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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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Sub Theme: Other
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Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin week 14, 30th Mar5th Apr 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 responding to public health events in the country on a weekly basis. In this issue, we brin...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
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Rising cases of Pneumonia in Mainland-China

• Firstly, the lifting of COVID-19 social measures such as wearing masks, social distancing, handwashing, and restricted movements which allowed individuals with compromised immune systems or those without necessary vaccinations/boosters to interact freely. • And secondly, seasonal fluctuations, inc...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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East Africa Public Health Laboratory Networking Project news letter, January, 2017

The Project Developmental Objective of EAPHLNP is to establish a network of efficient, high quality and accessible public health laboratories for diagnosis and surveillance of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases in the East African region.

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Sub Theme: Other
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Africa CDC Guidance for Assessment, Monitoring, and Movement Restrictions of People at Risk for COVID-19 in Africa

The document titled Africa CDC Guidance for Assessment, Monitoring, and Movement Restrictions of People at Risk for COVID-19 in Africa offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Easte...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Guidelines for the inpatient treatment of severely malnourished children

Every year some 10.6 million children die before they reach their fifth birthday. Seven out of every 10 of these deaths are due to diarrhoea, pneumonia, measles, malaria or malnutrition. The WHO manual Management of Severe Malnutrition: a manual for physicians and other senior health workers and the...

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Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
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Malaria Weekly Status report -Week 41 October 2021 11th 17th OCT 2021

The reporting rate decreased to 71.2% this week from 73.2% in last week. A total of 141,835 malaria confirmed cases were reported, a decrease by 0.3% from 142,303 last week. Test positivity rate this week was 52.3% compared to 51.6% last week. The highest Test positivity rates were reported in Buteb...

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Sub Theme: Malaria
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Africa CDC Newsletter September 2018

The document titled Africa CDC Newsletter – September 2018 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,...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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