HIV Counseling Supervision is a crucial component of any HIV/AIDS counseling or care and support service. It provides a way to support counselors and to address clients�� needs while at the same time upholding the professional practice of counseling around the globe. Supervision is an excellent oppo...
Village Health Teams are community health workers and volunteers, who serve their communities and carry out health promotion and social mobilisation activities. They also carry out a range of health interventions across the spectrum of health, water and sanitation, disease surveillance and they also...
NHA is an internationally accepted methodology used to determine a nation��s total health� expenditure� patterns,� including� public,� private,� and� donor� spending.� NHA� methodology� tracks the flow of health funds from a specific source (where the money comes from), to its� specific intermediary...
The study on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS among disabled persons was commissioned by Disabled Women��s Network and Resource Organisation (DWNRO), with support from Action Aid Uganda.� The study was conducted in Kampala, Katakwi and Rakai Districts.
The document titled Report of assessment and partnership visit to Rabat and Casablanca, Morocco offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Morocco, providing valuable guidance and data for public hea...
Such a world-wide goal is very worthy. But in some ways it is dangerous. For there is a risk of trying to reach that goal in ways that become so standardized, so impersonal, so controlled by those in power, that many of the human qualities essential to health��and to health care�� are lost. There is...
It has been 12 years since world leaders committed to Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4), which sets out to reduce the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.
Surgical Care at the District Hospital provides a comprehensive guide to surgical procedures that are commonly performed at the district hospital. It is intentionally limited to emergency and very common problems and is not designed as a major textbook of surgery. The manual is presented in seven pa...
The Uganda Functional Difficulties Survey (UFDS) 2017 was conducted by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) with the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) to generate information and data on persons with disabilities in Uganda to inform planning, budgeting, implementation, moni...
Fifty-four (98%) MS are currently providing COVID-19 vaccination to the general population. Cumulatively, 898 million doses have been administered on the continent. Of these doses administered, 440.7 million people have been partially vaccinated, 412.2 million have been fully vaccinated, and 45.1 mi...
The content of this logbook predominantly includes practical areas and exposure experiences that cannot be acquired within the training institution��s environment. This logbook will, therefore be used to record practical experiences, exposures and the assessment there of, while at placement/practic...
The new year started on a great note with 100% of the districts reporting and 82.6% of the health facilities reporting as shown in the table above. This depicts a 27.1% increase in reporting rate in as compared to the same week in 2016. Only 14.7% (17/116) of the districts had 100% of their health f...
As of 9 a.m. East African Time (EAT) 14 September 2021, a total of 8,052,110 COVID-19 cases and 204,025 deaths (CFR: 2.5%) have been reported in 55 African Union (AU) Member States. This represents 3.6% of all cases and 4.4% of all deaths reported globally. Twenty-three (42%) AU Member States are re...
The Ministry of Health is implementing the Village Health Team (VHT) strategy to ensure that every village in Uganda has capacity to mobilize individuals and households for better health. VHT members are community volunteers who are selected by communities to provide correct health information, mobi...
The document titled Africa’s Leadership Role in the Development and Access to Potential COVID-19 Vaccine: Rapporteur’s Report for Day Two offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challe...
Agencies of the State, all citizens, organisations and other bodies and persons in applying or interpreting the Constitution or any other law and in taking and implementing any policy decisions for the establishment and promotion of a just, free and democratic society. (ii) The President shall repor...
The document titled Guidance on Emergency Expedited Regulatory Authorisation and Access to COVID-19 Vaccines in 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...
Part One begins, in Chapter 1, by reviewing the dramatic decline in mortality in the 20th century. Income growth and improved educational levels - and consequent improvements in food intake and sanitation - have accounted for part of the mortality decline; but access to new knowledge, drugs and vacc...
The Government of Uganda (GOU) is implementing Result Oriented Management (ROM) across the public service as a means of increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the Ugandan Public Service. ROM is an approach to management, which seeks to make the best use of resources available by setting clea...
The National Drug Authority Strategic Plan 2020/2021-2024/2025 builds on the gains achieved in the previous period and also focuses on consolidating efficiency and effectiveness in drug regulation, as provided for within the mandate of the Drug Authority. This strategic plan has been aligned to the...
