The year 2014 was one of sharp contrasts for the world��s children - posing new challenges for UNICEF��s work to improve their lives and emphasizing the critical necessity of investing in heir resilience, before, during, and after emergencies. In November, we marked the 25th anniversary of the Conve...
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 109: 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...
The Annual Health Sector Performance Report for 2013/14 Financial Year provides analysis of health sector performance against set targets, goals and objectives for the Financial Year 2013/14 with a comparative analysis of the previous trends towards achieving the HSSIP 2010/11 - 2014/15 targets. Th...
During the 1970s and 1980s, Uganda went through a period of political and economic upheaval, resulting in the breakdown of many services. In the health sector this was characterized by general system failure. Funding was grossly insufficient, leading to problems of meagre and late salaries for healt...
All members of the Policy Updating Group were asked to complete a World Health Organization (WHO) Declaration of interests for WHO consultants form. Five members of the group declared a conflict of interest. Constance Benson declared consulting, scientific and technical advisory work on antiretrovir...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 68: 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 2018 World Disasters Report asks challenging questions of affected states, admittedly overburdened donors, and local and international humanitarian organizations. It includes a strong call for more, for better and for more equitable, funding and action to meet the rising needs. It also calls for...
The Fifty-third meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations (ECSPP) took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 22 to 26 October 2018. Participants of the meeting were welcomed by Dr Mariângela Simão, Assistant Director-General, Acces...
Uganda has developed a National HIV Prevention Strategy to guide national efforts in the next phase of HIV prevention in the country in order to significantly reduce new HIV infections by about 30% by 2015. This, in line with the targets in the NDP would result in 40% reduction of the projected numb...
The theme for this State of the Environment (SOE) Report is environment sustainability and health. The focus on health and environment underlines the growing recognition of the link between environmental sustainability and health outcomes. The focus is dual faced; first, several health management ac...
This policy has been designed to address gaps in existing legislation and administrative practices with respect to the tracking the performance and evaluation of public policies and investments. The planning, monitoring and evaluation of results is inadequate across the public sector.� Plans are not...
This, the firstWorld report on violence and health, is an important part of WHO��s response to Resolution WHA49.25. It is aimed mainly at researchers and practitioners. The latter include health care workers, social workers, those involved in developing and implementing prevention programmes and ser...
Africa CDC is working with partners and Member States to: * Map the regional spread of the new variants in Africa through regional genomic surveillance; * Support laboratory centres of excellence to address the emerging SARS-CoV-2 sequencing needs of Member States and ensure availability of geograph...
An Act to consolidate, harmonize and update the law relating to occupational safety and health; to repeal the Factories Act, Cap 220 and to provide for connected matters.
The Consultation was called in response to recent resraech findings in sexually transmitted disease (STD) treatment and its effects on the tranmission of Immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
We are pleased to share with you our 37th weekly epidemiological bulletin. 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 respondin...
This Annual Health Sector Performance Report for Financial Year 2022/23, is the third during the National Development Plan (NDP) III period and it mainly focuses on the progress in implementation of the health subprogram annual workplans FY 2022/23 based on the respective institutional 5 year Strate...
The proportion of health facilities that reported this week was 75.5% which signifies a 19.1% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2015. Only 12.1% (14/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 44% (51/116) of the districts achieved the national target...
Cameroon: Since last update (21 July 2023), the Ministry of Health (MoH) reported 103 new cases (3 confirmed;100 suspected) and no new deaths of cholera. Cumulatively 19,489 cases (1,890 confirmed; 17,599 suspected) and463 deaths (CFR: 2.4%) of cholera have been reported from Cameroon. The outbreak...
