The revised HTS policy and Implementation guidelines replace the 2010 Uganda HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) Policy and National Implementation guidelines for HCT, 2010. It is informed by new evidence generated from implementation of HTS at international, regional and national levels as well as le...
Uganda 2022 Progress Brief on Family Planning, commitments and National Goals.
La RDC dispose depuis 2010 d’une seconde édition de la Stratégie de Renforcement duSystème de Santé (SRSS-2) appelée à être opérationnalisée, tous les 5 ans, par un PlanNational de Développement Sanitaire (PNDS). Le PNDS 2011-2015 a été évalué et lesrésultats ont été présentés à la re...
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiative was launched by the Africa CDC in April 2019 with the aim of strengthening the African Union (AU) Member States’ biosafety and biosecurity systems and enabling them to comply with national and int...
Currently, Mauritius and Seychelles have 85 and 82 percent vaccination rates, respectively, surpassing the 70 percent target set by the WHO in 2021. Countries that have attained vaccination rates of between 50 and 70 percent include Liberia at 67 percent, Rwanda at 66 percent, Morocco at 62 percent,...
Uganda was ranked 18th out of the 22 tuberculosis (TB) high-burden countries in the world during 2009. The Annual Risk of TB Infection (ARI) for Uganda is estimated at 3 percent. The incidence of TB is 330/100,000 population for all TB cases and 136/100,000 population for sputum smear-positive pulmo...
Globally, reduction of maternal and newborn mortality remains a high priority in the post MDG agenda. In 2013, about 0.3 million women died as result of pregnancy related causes. Sub-Saharan Africa alone contributed more than half of these deaths. Uganda is among those countries struggling with high...
Currently, 14 African nations have vaccinated 70 percent of their eligible population with the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the WHO Tanzania and São Tomé and Príncipe have fully vaccinated their populations, while Botswana has immunised 94 percent of theirs. Mauritius, Seychelles, and Somalia hav...
Welcome to the AIho Facility List Master Facility List database, a comprehensive repository of healthcare facility information across all African countries. This platform allows users to explore and analyze key statistics on healthcare infrastructure across the continent.For each country i...
Welcome to the AIho Facility List Master Facility List database, a comprehensive repository of healthcare facility information across all African countries. This platform allows users to explore and analyze key statistics on healthcare infrastructure across the continent.
For each country i...
Since the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD program of Action 1994), global recognition of the importance of men��s involvement in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) has increased. Issues such as the AIDS epidemic have reinforced the urgency of encoura...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 145: 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...
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...
Sepsis arises when the body��s response to infection injures its own tissues and organs. It can lead to septic shock, multiple organ failure and death, if not recognized early and managed promptly. It is a major cause of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countri...
This report contains the findings of the study on ��Factors that Influence Decisions to Seek Medical Male Circumcision (MMC) Services�� commissioned by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg University - Health Communication Partnership (HCP) with funding from the United States Agency for International Develop...
2015 confirmed a significant recent trend in the flagship WHO Model List of Essential Medicines with groundbreaking new treatments for hepatitis C and a varietyof cancers included in the list despite their high prices. The list also included five new medicines for multidrug resistant tuberculosis (T...
This list presents the minimum medicine needs for a basic health care system, listing the most efficacious, safe and cost-effective medicines for priority conditions. Priority conditions are selected on the basis of current and estimated future public health relevance, and potential for safe and cos...
This Magazine summarises the news events that shaped the Health sector in the previous financial year (2018/19) and part of the current FY 2019/20). In addition, this publication details some of the major achievements posted by Ministry of Health that are in line with its Vision of ��Having a health...
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 overall goal of these guidelines is to contribute to the reduction of morbidity and mortality due to cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases which is in line with the Health Sector Development Plan goal (HSDP 2015/16-2019/2020); ��To accelerate movement towards Universal Health Coverage with essen...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 82: 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...
