As of 9 am East African Time (EAT) 27 October 2020, a total of 1,728,682 COVID-19 cases and 41,623 deaths (CFR: 2.4%) have been reported in 55 African Union (AU) Member States. This is 4% of all cases reported globally. Of the countries actively reporting COVID-19 epidemiologic data, thirteen countr...
This Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Plan is anchored on the�inclusive partnership between UNEPI and the stakeholders.�It establishes a common platform to monitor the National�Immunization Strategy (NIS 2024-2028) for the accomplishment�of program objectives hence attaining the program mission goal�...
As of 9 am EAT 28 April 2020, a total of 33,273 COVID-19 cases and 1,467 (CFR: 4.4%) deaths have been reported in 52 African countries. Since the last brief, the number of COVID-19 cases has increased by 42% (9,768 cases). The five countries in Africa with the highest cumulative number of cases (pro...
A central aim of the UK Government��s policy is to empower and enable women and adolescent girls1 to have sexual and reproductive choices; to avoid unwanted sexual contact, injury and infection; to make informed decisions about childbearing; and to face fewer risks in the course of pregnancy and chi...
Good governance and management of health services is a key element in ensuring effectiveness and efficiency in the health sector. The governance and managemnet structures described in the health Sector Strategic and Investment Plan intends to establish a substantive sector wide governance mechanism.
The document titled COVID-19 Guidance for Educational Sector 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 Africa, Southern Africa,...
Two decades of HIV/AIDS in Uganda, the epidemic has entered the mature stage that presents enormous challenges of coping with the devastating social and economic impact in addition to the high HIV prevalence rates. The sickness and deaths of productive Ugandans has created a dent in all development...
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...
According to the Burden of Disease Study in Uganda (Ministry of Health, 1995), over 75% of the life years lost due to premature death were due to ten preventable diseases. Perinatal and maternal conditions (20.4%), malaria (15.4%), acute lower respiratory tract infections (10.5%), AIDS (9.1%) and di...
The World Malaria Report 2012 summarizes information received from 104 malaria-endemic countries and other sources, and updates the analyses presented in the 2011 report. It highlights the progress made towards the global malaria targets set for 2015 and describes current challenges for global malar...
Conventional light microscopy of Ziehl-Neelsen-stained smears prepared directly from sputum specimens is the most widely available test for diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in resource-limited settings. Ziehl-Neelsen microscopy is highly specific, but its sensitivity is variable (20-80%) and is signif...
A. Executive summary Wajnberg et al. reported that robust neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 infection persist for months. The vast majority of infected individuals with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 experience robust immunoglobulin G antibody responses against the viral spike protein. Authors also...
Medical equipment represents a substantial asset in the health care delivery system and needs to be managed efficiently. Moreover, the way in which it is purchased, managed, and used can influence the quality of health care delivered to patients. Medical equipment can pose a risk to patients and sta...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 44: 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...
As of 6 p.m. East African Time (EAT) 9 October 2022, a total of 12,079,592 COVID-19 cases and 255,843 deaths (CFR: 2.1%) have been reported by the 55 African Union (AU) Member States (MS). This represents 2% of all cases and 4% of all deaths reported globally. Forty (73%) AU MS are reporting CFRs hi...
Human development is about enlarging human choices��focusing on the richness of human lives rather than simply the richness of economies (see infographic). Critical to this process is work, which engages people all over the world in different ways and takes up a major part of their lives. Of the wor...
This policy statement is about the vote functions of Ministry of health.
The education and training of a health workforce contributes to the quality of services they provide their communities. Many countries lack information about health worker training, pre-service and in-service, making it difficult to track, plan, and manage training and deployment for the health work...
Africa CDC becomes an autonomous agency of the African UnionAt the 35th ordinary session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Africa CDC was granted full licence to operate as an autonomous agency of the African Union. This historic appr...
Integrated Human Resources Information System (iHRIS) is a management tool that enables an organization to design and manage a comprehensive human resources strategy. iHRIS has five core components: iHRIS Qualify for health workforce registration and licensing, iHRIS Manage for human resource manage...
