The quarterly report on the facility stock status of the 41 tracer items (in different baskets) provides information about the stock situation of health facilities in the country in order to inform the Ministry of Health and all stakeholders in their bid to make appropriate logistics decisions so as...
This is the second HRH audit report that is intended to provide the Health Sector with up to date information on the current staffing in the public health sector. The available information was compiled between July and December 2010 and indicates that nationally, the proportion of approved positions...
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 document titled Outbreak Brief 85: 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 report presents the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date, based on a set of data prepared by a large number of international organizations within and outside the United Nations system.
Tuberculosis (TB) prevalence surveys are most valuable in areas where notification data obtained through routine surveillance are of unproven accuracy or incomplete, and in areas with an estimated prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed TB of more than 100 per 100 000. To help in assessing the per...
A. Executive summary • Two preprint studies demonstrated that SARS-CoV2 D614G substitution enhances infectivity, replication fitness, and early transmission in hamsters. Findings indicate the D614G variant exhibited significantly faster droplet transmission between hamsters and clinical evidence tha...
This�Electronic Community Health Information (eCHIS) Bulletin, is a documentation of the progress made in the implementation of a Ministry of Health, digital job aid for community health workers with�reporting as a passive process
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...
This case study focuses on malaria case management activities was implemented in Ssembabule District, Uganda, by Minnesota International HealthVolunteers (MIHV) during the second phase of a U.S. Agency forInternational Development (USAID)-funded Child Survival project (1996-2000).
Choléra Source : SITREP choléra, bulletins SIMR des États membres, Bulletin hebdomadaire de la région Afrique de l’OMS sur le choléra (AFRO Choléra Bulletin.27_Final.pdf (who.int)Durant la période de rapportage allant des semaines épidémiologiques (SE) 31 à 34 de 2023, 4 225 nouveaux cas (suspects e...
In order to develop and share Human Resources for Health Information an idea of developing country observatories came up within WHO system development. One of the outputs of the Observatory is to ensure information sharing on country HRH situations. One way to present HRH information is to develop H...
This Report concludes that Global Value Chains (GVC)� can continue to boost growth, create better jobs, and reduce poverty, provided that developing countries undertake deeper reforms and industrial countries pursue open, predictable policies. Technological change is likely to be more of a boon than...
The pre-eclampsia interventional framework will provide a basis for tracking implementation and assessment of achievements against targets, with the overall aim of reducing the maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality due to pre-eclampsia. The framework has been designed to provide updated, pra...
Reporting rate this week (75.7%) is a drop from the previous week, 2019W4 (83.9%). There was a 9% drop in reported malaria cases (105,566 this week vs. 116,330 in W4) There was marginal drop in confirmed malaria incidence. Only Adjumani & Moyo Districts reported incidence rates >10 cases/1,000 popul...
The main purpose of the 2016 UDHS is to provide the data needed to monitor and evaluate population, health, and nutrition programmes on a regular basis. Increasing emphasis by planners and policymakers on the utilisation of objective indicators for policy formulation, planning, and measuring progres...
The National Policy on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work provides the principles and a framework for mounting an optimum response to HIV/AIDS in the entire Ugandan world of work.� It forms the basis for the development of workplace policy guidelines, which address the more specific issues related to th...
Over the last two decades, the world made substantial progress in reducing mortality among children and young adolescents (including children under age 5, children aged 5��9 and young adolescents aged 10��14). Still, in 2017 alone, an estimated 6.3 million children and young adolescents died, mostly...
Management of Iron Deficiency Anemia Pregnancy
This report summarises the results of a study of health worker satisfaction, working conditions and intent to continue working in the health sector in Uganda. The findings point to the importance of a number of factors that contribute to satisfaction and intent to stay, including differences by cadr...