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Screening Donated Blood for Transfusion- Transmissible Infections

Blood transfusion is a life-saving intervention that has an essential role in patient management within health care systems. All Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) endorsed World Health Assembly resolutions WHA28.72 (1) in 1975 and WHA58.13 (2) in 2005. These commit them to the pr...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Local Government Performance Assessment - FY 2018/2019 National Synthesis Report

The 2018 Local Government Performance Assessment (LG PA) Report is the second edition under the new Local Government Assessment framework. The assessment was conducted between September-October 2018 with involvement of the Local Government Performance Assessment Task force, Ministries, Departments a...

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Theme: Health Policy and Governance
Sub Theme: Leadership, Governance, and Management
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 hours ago 186 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization 980

The WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization met in Geneva from 15 to 19 October 2012. The meeting was opened jointly by Dr Jean��Marie Okwo��bele, Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals, and by Dr Kees de Joncheere, Director of the Department of Essential Me...

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Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Medical Products and Health Technology
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 174 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

World drug report 2018

About 275 million people worldwide, which is roughly 5.6 per cent of the global population aged 15-64 years, used drugs at least once during 2016. Some 31 million of people who use drugs suffer from drug use disorders, meaning that their drug use is harmful to the point where they may need treatment...

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Theme: Prevention
Sub Theme: Pharmaceuticals and Drugs
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 148 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Human Development Report 2016 Human Development for Everyone

The 2016 Human Development Report is the latest in the series of global Human Development Reports published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990 as independent, analytically and empirically grounded discussions of major development issues, trends and policies.Additional reso...

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Theme: Workforce Development
Sub Theme: Human Resource Development
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 159 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda AIDS indicator Survey Preliminary Report 2011

The 2011 Uganda AIDS Indicator survey is a nationally representative, population-based, HIV Serological survey. The survey was designed with the objective of obtaining national and Sub-national of program coverage, such as knowledge, attitudes, and sexual behavior related to HIV/AIDS. Data collectio...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 181 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidelines for Community Health Departments for hospitals

The health status of the Ugandan population is poor, with infant mortality rate of 97/1000 live birth (UDHS 1995) and Maternal mortality rate of 506/1000 live birth.The health status indicators reflect slow improvement over the past years.

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Community Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 149 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 52: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 52: 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...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 135 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

NDA Has a New Board

The Purpose of this bulletin is one of the ways of improving internal and external communication with Stakeholders and the public we serve

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 149 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Impacts of Decentralization on Health Behaviors in Uganda

This paper examines the impacts of a public sector decentralization program on the demand for health care in Uganda in the 1990s. This work is an extension of a previous paper, which provided evidence of a shifting of priorities by local governments in Uganda��s decentralized health system away from...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 159 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda National Policy on HIV counselling and Testing

This policy replaces the 2003 document, uganda national policy guidelines for HIV voluntary counselling and testing. The revision was promted by scientific and programmatic advances in HIv counselling and as well advances in prevention.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 160 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Guidelines for Quarantine in context of COVID-19

On 30 January 2020, the WHO declared the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The new virus is highly infectious and transmits by respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes. As of today, nearly all the countries in the wor...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 204 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

5S Hand Book Practical Hints for 5S in Health Care Facilities 2019

In order to set the best stage for health care personnel to make maximum use of their skills and knowledge, the Ministry of Health of Uganda (MoH) recommends the 5S method as the foundation for all quality improvement initiatives in the country. The 5S method was developed in the mid-1980s by the au...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 172 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

UNAIDS special report 2013

The number of people living with HIV who are accessing referral centres in the country has continued to grow since the introduction of universal and free antiretroviral therapy (ART). People also now have access to treatment for coinfection with TB and hepatitis B and C. Similarly, clinical and labo...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 24 hours ago 129 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Synthesis, Consolidation and Building Consensus on Key and Priority Population Size Estimation Numbers in Uganda Final ReportINAL REPORT October 2019

Despite marked advancement in prevention, care and treatment, HIV in Uganda continues to exert severe constraints on the public health and economic well-being of a sizeable proportion of the population. The type of HIV epidemic in Uganda is described as severe, mature, and generalized but with sub-e...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 139 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

A Brief Guide to iHRIS Manage

To ensure that the right provider is in the right place with the right skills, countries require current, accurate data on human resources (HR). A strong human resources information system (HRIS) enables leaders to quickly answer the key policy and management questions affecting service delivery. Th...

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Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2014

Given its multifaceted and dynamic nature, the world drug problem is one of the most complex challenges� facing the contemporary world. It directly or indirectly affects everyone and poses a serious threat to health, both as a result of the illicit cultivation, production, manufacture, sale, demand,...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 127 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Violence against Women The Health Sector Responds

Studies from different countries show that the percentage of women 15 to 49 years old who've experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime ranges from 15% to 71%

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Gender Based Violence
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 157 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Feasibility Analysis of Community-based Health Insurance Scheme Structures and their Integration in the National Health Insurance Scheme

Uganda has a draft National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Bill, 2019 that provides for the establishment of a NHIS. The proposed health insurance scheme will pool resources, where the rich will subsidize the treatment of the poor and the healthy will subsidize the treatment of the sick, young and e...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 203 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Mental Health Promotion Case Studies from Countries

Overall, the collection gives a glimpse of the range of mental health promotion programmes, some evidence based and others less so. This publication also demonstrates the close collaboration between the World Federation for Mental Health and the World Health Organization, who continue to work in a s...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 197 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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