A. Background The International Health Regulations (IHR-2005) identify mapping and using priority health risks and resources as one of the core capacities in Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response (PHEPR). Effective preparedness and swift response to epidemic is the goal of Africa Centres...
Globally, breastfeeding has the potential to prevent about 800 000 deaths among children under five each year if all children 0-23 months were optimally breastfed. Early initiation of breastfeeding could prevent about one fifth of neonatal deaths, but less than half of infants are put to the breast...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of disability and premature death throughout the world. The underlying pathology is atherosclerosis, which develops over many years and is usually advanced by the time symptoms occur, generally in middle age. Acute coronary events (heart attacks) and cer...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 108: 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...
Despite strong global consensus on the need to strengthen health systems, there is no established framework for doing so in developing countries, and no formula to apply or package of interventions to implement. Many health systems simply lack the capacity to measure or understand their own weakness...
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 2019 Human Development Report is the latest in the series of global Human Development Reports published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990 as independent, analytically and empirically grounded discussions of major development issues, trends and policies.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) working together with the other key stakeholders considers 5S-Continuous Quality Improvement(CQI or KAIZEN)-Total Quality Management (TQM) approach as the foundation of all health care service interventions in the country as outlined in the Health Sector Quality Improvem...
The Statistical Abstract is an annual publication compiled by Uganda Bureau of Statistics, which provides the statistical summary on various socio-economic indicators for Uganda. Some figures in this edition may vary from those in the earlier editions due to the updates. Note that most of the 2013 a...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 146: 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...
Child survival, which refers to the survival of children aged 0 to 5 years, is a major public health concern in Uganda. Though the past 20 years have witnessed improvements in child survival in Uganda, about 200,000 children under the age of 5 years still die annually, mainly during the first year (...
Roll Back Malaria Country Partnership meetings (RBMCPM) are a necessary for malaria endemic countries if they have to dent a disease that has consumed a big chunk of national budgets over and above inflicting socio-psychological sequel on communities with children under five years of age and pregnan...
Uganda adopted the Village Health Teams (VHTs) strategy in 2001 as a bridge in health service delivery between community and health facilities. This assessment sought to establish the VHT programme functionality in Uganda.
As the lead institution on the continent in the fight against COVID-19, Africa CDC had anticipated that COVID-19 outbreak would inevitably impact Africa and has been working actively with African Union Member States and partners on preparedness and response to the disease in the continent.As part of...
In 2009, Uganda received support from the Global Program for Reproductive Health Commodity Security (GPRHCS) to assist the�Ministry of Health in developing a national strategy. The strategy focused on logistics management to improve the functionality of the national and district Reproductive Health...
The document titled Strategies for Managing Acute Shortages of PPE during the 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...
As we cannot cover every situation here, this guidance can be adapted for individual situations as they arise. This guidance is focused on how to practically implement environmental decontamination and should be delivered as a part of a planned and resourced program, (1) which is integrated fully wi...
The Standardisation Guide presents several digital health (DH) artefacts including; digital health Standards, digital health Enterprise Architecture Framework, digital health Workforce Capacity Building Framework, and digital health Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (DH-ASK). The DH-ASK artefacts...
Africa CDC is working with partners and Member States to: * Map the regional spread of the new variants in Africa through regional genomic surveillance; * Support laboratory centres of excellence to address the emerging SARS-CoV-2 sequencing needs of Member States and ensure availability of geograph...
