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...
As of 6 p.m. East African Time (EAT) 28 February 2022, a total of 11,188,490 COVID-19 cases and 248,812 deaths (CFR: 2.2%) have been reported in 55 African Union (AU) Member States (MS). This represents 3% of all cases and 4.2% of all deaths reported globally. Thirty-four (60%) AU MS are reporting C...
The document titled Guidance on Diagnosis and Management of People with Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome 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 A...
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...
This newsletter has been developed to update the public about the new developments in the fight against malaria in the country.�In this newsletter, we provide a highlight of a number of activities conducted in the last three months of the quarter.�Editor in chief:�Rukia Nakamatte
This research report is one of the policy analyses prepared by ACODE to assess the governance of public expenditure (hereafter, public expenditure governance or PEG) in Uganda��s health, road, education and agriculture sectors. The report is premised against the dimensions of governance elaborated i...
Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission (MTCT) is the second major mode of spread of the virus in Uganda and is the main route by which children get infected. The relatively high prevalence of HIV among women of reproductive age in Uganda, coupled with a high fertility rate implies that without an interven...
The Annual Health Sector Performance Report for 2014/15 Financial Year provides analysis of health sector performance against set targets, goals and objectives for the Financial Year 2014/15 with a comparative analysis of the previous trends towards achieving the HSSIP 2010/11 - 2014/15 targets. Th...
What models got right in the African context: Many African countries were amongst the most rapid to respond to the emerging threat of COVID-19, implementing large-scale interventions at very early stages of their epidemic. As demonstrated in this document using very simple models, this rapid mobiliz...
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...
The Ministry of Health would like to very sincerely thank the University Research Co., LLC (URC) Nulife Program, with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for the technical and financial support which was so essential for the development, printing and dissemina...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 50: 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 Climate Change and Development Series was created in 2015 to showcase economic and scientific research that explores the interactions between climate change, climate policies, and development. The series aims to promote debate and broaden understanding of current and emerging questions about the...
Egyptian Health Department is dedicated to providing human services that support an...
The African continent is facing a health crisis occasioned by a number of factors that have affected the sector over the past two decades or more. These factors include the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the reemergence of old communicable diseases such as TB and Malaria, and the apparent paradox of increasing...
The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) developed its first Strategic Plan for Statistics (SPS I) in 2006 to cover the period 2006/07 - 2011/12 while the second one (USP II) was developed in 2012 to cover the period 2013/14 - 2017/18. The UBOS SPS II constitutes one of the building blocks of Uganda��...
During Week 48 of 2016, the proportion of health facilities that reported this week was 83.3% indicating a 15.4% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2015. Only 14.7% (17/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 68.1% (79/116) of the districts achieved...
With 57% of our population below the age of 18, Uganda is a young country and there is no doubting that our future lies with our children. In 2040, when our national Vision is to be a middle income country, children being born now will be the productive engine of our economy. The Child Poverty Repor...
For week 36, we have seen a one percentage point reduction in the test positivity rate (from 58% to 57% this week) and the number of districts in upsurge has reduced from 50 to 44 this week. Despite this decline, we saw an increase across all other indicators: confirmed cases, deaths, and the percen...
