This book, which has been appropriately titled Essential Maternal & Neonatal Care Clinical Guidelines for Uganda, is expected to be a reinforcement of the Safe Motherhood Life Saving Skills (LSS) program, the Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postnatal Care (PCPNC), Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) Tr...
The reduction of poverty and vulnerability is an integral part of Uganda��s national development. This report considers the national development process from the point of view of an individual household. From this perspective, socioeconomic transformation means that all households are made more secu...
H.E. President Cyril Ramaphosa, Chairperson of the African Union and President of the Republic of South Africa opened the conference. He noted the need for strong partnerships, cooperation and a sense of urgency among Africans in finding a suitable vaccine against the COVID-19. He emphasized the nee...
"Ebola threatens everything that makes us human," says Bruce Aylward of World Health Organisation. With calm measure, Bruce walks us through how the Ebola epidemic exploded.
Untreated HIV infection leads to progressive immunodeficiency and increased susceptibility to infections, including TB. HIV is driving the TB epidemic in many countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and, increasingly, in Asia and South America.TB in populations with high HIV prevalence is a lead...
The document titled COVID-19 Pandemic Response Initiatives 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, W...
This publication is about the TB statistics in Uganda.
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 Family Planning monthly performance update for December 2021 and 2021 annual highlights has been compiled using our service statistics data (DHIS 2) as one of the principal instruments to monitor program performances. Reporting rates for December greatly improved compared to November, there was...
The aim of this bulletin is to inform district,national, and global stake-holders on progress achieved and challenges encountered in malaria control and reduction in Uganda. Most importantly, it is to encourage use of this information at all levels in order to foster improvement of our efforts and t...
This particular guideline is comprehensive and includes among others the National Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines (MOH, 2004) and the Infection Control: Policies and Procedures (MOH, 2005). IPC guidelines will be used alongside with these and the other technical guidelines such as (1) PE...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 100: 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 total of 221,271 malaria confirmed cases were reported, up by 13% cases reported last week Reporting Increased to 74% from 70% last week 67 Districts reported malaria upsurge weeks. Manafwa, Budaka, Kween, Bukwo, Bugiri, Nabilatuk are in upsurge and have inadequate ACT stock Malaria incidence incr...
District: State/Province: Country: Date of visit: Date of last visit:Surveillance 1a. Total number of patients seen at this healt...
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...
This ducument details the step wise approach to be taken to deliver a comprehensive risk communication
This United Nations Development Assistance Framework for 2016-2020 is a result of a highly consultative process under the high-level modality for engagement between the Government of Uganda and the United Nations Country Team which deliberated and approved the Results Framework that underpins the UN...
Malaria cases have declined from 100,830 cases in week 32 to 99,672 cases in week 33 which can be attributed to a decline in reporting rates. 16 malaria deaths were reported. The highest number of deaths were in Mbale(3), Nebbi(2), and Hoima(2). Karamoja region has consistently reported the highes...
Tuberculosis (TB) prevalence surveys are most valuable in areas where notification data obtained through routine surveillance are of unproven accuracy or incomplete, and in areas with an estimated prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed TB of more than 100 per 100 000. To help in assessing the per...
Uganda has been hosting refugees for a long time, but the years 2016 and 2017 have presented the highest ever recorded inflows of refugees into the country with the current numbers standing at close to 1.3 million. After realizing the protracted nature of displacement in the region, Uganda adopted a...
