The coexistence of high rates of malnutrition and HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa creates an additional challenge for nutritionists. Providing adequate nutrition at community and individual levels, even in the absence of HIV/AIDS, remains a problem. The new challenge calls for the acceleration...
The purpose of this report is to inform the Ministry of Health and all stakeholders of the stock levels in the country as a tool that enables appropriate logistics decision making. This report highlights stock status, real challenges, bottlenecks but also recommends potential solutions to mitigate s...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 66: 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 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.
As such, healthcare facilities play a key role in effective preparedness and response. By ensuring IPC standards are implemented appropriately, healthcare facilities can provide safe services not only on a daily basis but also when there is a surge in healthcare need.
In week 24 of 2016, all 112 districts reported with an average reporting rate of 82.3% which is a more than 20% increase in reporting rate compared to the same week in 2015. An overall of 19.6% of the districts had 100% of all their health facilities reporting; 23 districts (21%) had all their healt...
This 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 the country on a weekly basis. In this issue, we brin...
The campaign achieved high OCV coverage, but the surveys provided insights for improvement. To achieve high vaccine coverage, more effort is needed for community sensitisation, and additional resources for staff transportation and timely payment for campaign staff is required. Pretest and post-test...
Many developing countries are increasingly dependent on donor assistance to meet the equipment needs of their health care systems. However, because not all important parameters are taken into consideration, donations sometimes do not achieve their intended objectives, and could even constitute an ad...
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased global demand for PPE, including RPE, resulting in large scale procurement by national and international organisations and increased competition for PPE. This has encouraged new manufacturers without experience in PPE production to join the market and made experie...
This 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 the country on a weekly basis. � In this issue, we br...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (01 December 2020) 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, N...
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...
These guidelines have been prepared by the Ministry of Health to enhance economy, efficiency and effectiveness in infrastructure development and harmonise it with other inputs to improve service delivery in the health sector. They are specifically aimed at providing criteria and procedures for desig...
IPC Action Plan Development presentation is one of the EVD IPC training materials for HC II and pharmacies.
There has been great progress made in the control of malaria in Uganda with the incidence rate reducing from 272 cases per 1000 population in 2016/17 to 191 cases per 1000 population in 2017/18. The Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Health National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) and other...
This report shows where we stand in 2006 in achieving these goals. The challenges the Goals represent are staggering. But there are clear signs of hope. The data on the following pages and other evidence suggest that providing every child with a primary school education is within our grasp.
These principles can be used in managingmany diseases and risk conditions.
The development of this National Emergency Medical Services Policy comes in response to the�public outcry over limited response to emergencies right from the scene of an emergency (home,�school, work or location) to accident and emergency units in health facilities, non-functional�ambulances, and la...
This ducument details the step wise approach to be taken to deliver a comprehensive risk communication
