The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiative was launched by the Africa CDC in April 2019 with the aim of strengthening the African Union (AU) Member States’ biosafety and biosecurity systems and enabling them to comply with national and int...
The 2006 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) was designed to provide information on demographic, health, and family planning status and trends in the country. Specifi cally, the UDHS collected information on fertility and fertility preferences, marriage, sexual activity, awareness and use of...
Development of the Gender Statistics Gender Statistics Profiles is anchored in the Beijing Platform for Action, which underscores the need for gender analysis as one of the critical starting points for Gender Mainstreaming. The main objectives of compiling the Gender Statistics Gender Statistics Pro...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 97: 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 Quality of Care Implementation Guide for Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal,�Child, Adolescent Health, and Nutrition (RMNCAH-N) provides practical guidance�on�RMNCAH-N�quality�improvement�activities�by�level of�care�and�facilitate�implementation�of RNMCAH-N health service quality standards in acco...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 12: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa, Wester...
This Policy� establishes the enviromental health priorities of the Government of Uganda and provides a frame work for the development of services and programmes at national and local government levels.
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 Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) developed its first Strategic Plan for Statistics (SPS I) in 2006 to cover the period 2006/07 - 2011/12 while the second one (USP II) was developed in 2012 to cover the period 2013/14 - 2017/18. The UBOS SPS II constitutes one of the building blocks of Uganda��...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 133: 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...
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Children under five years of age bear a disproportionate share of the global burden of disease. While major gains have been made in reducing childhood mortality during previous decades, stagnation or even reversals of trends have been observed recent...
This manual helps to streamline the operations of the Regional Medical Equipment Maintenance Workshops. Additionally, the Maintenance guidelines will facilitate first-line Maintenance to be undertaken by both the Users of the equipment and technicians in a well-structured and safe manner.� This man...
The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in South Africa 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...
The handbook provides a description of each indicator and how it is constructed and how it can be used; the minimum and/or maximum acceptable level (if appropriate); the background of the indicator; data collection and analysis; interpretation and presentation of the indicator; and suggestions for s...
This weekly 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 Uganda on a weekly basis. In this issue, we br...
This is a 1st April 2019 stock status report with stock on hand data as of 31st March 2019. Warehouse data utilized includes information from NMS, JMS, MAUL, JCRC and UHMG. The PNFP sector: JMS is well stocked with most of the commodities having over 3 months of stock except DTG 50mg and NVP 50mg ta...
The proportion of health facilities that reported during week 51 was 71.1% reflecting depicting a 11.6% decline in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2015. Only 10% (12/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 36.2% (42/116) of the districts achieved the nationa...
As of 6 p.m. East African Time (EAT) 28 February 2022, a total of 11,188,490 COVID-19 cases and 248,812 deaths (CFR: 2.2%) have been reported in 55 African Union (AU) Member States (MS). This represents 3% of all cases and 4.2% of all deaths reported globally. Thirty-four (60%) AU MS are reporting C...
Be prepared for postpartum haemorrhage - whole blood must be available
This is an act to control the demand for the consumption of tobacco and its products, to control the supply of tobacco and its products to the population: to protect the environment from the effects of tobacco production and consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke.
