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Provider Initiated HIV Counselling and Testing in Clinical Settings : Trainers Manual

This training manual is designed to equip service providers with knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to provide quality RCT services in a hospital or any health care setting. The overall goal of the RCT training programme is to increase the production and provision of high quality HIV counseling...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
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Report on Participatory Review of National Policies on: Environment Management; Coordination; and Training 2020

This was the second participatory review of public policies. It took place at the Office of the President Cabinet Library on 18th June; 2019.The purpose of the participatory review was to assess the effectiveness and relevance of the National Environment Management Policy, National Coordination Poli...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Prevention and Treatment of HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections for Sex Workers in Low- and Middle-income Countries

Sex workers in many places are highly vulnerable to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections due to multiple factors, including large numbers of sex partners, unsafe working conditions and barriers to the negotiation of consistent condom use. Moreover, sex workers often have little control over...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
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Outbreak Brief 39: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 39: 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...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 18 hours ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Preventive chemotherapy in human helminthiasis

This manual is intended to guide the coordinated implementation of regular, systematic, large-scale interventions that provide anthelminthic drug treatment as a core component of the joint and synergic control of helminthic diseases such as lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis and s...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Certified African Regional professionals: Level 1 Biorisk Management

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...

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Outbreak Brief 27: COVID-19 Pandemic 21 July 2020

As of 9 am EAT 21 July 2020, a total of 736,288 COVID-19 cases and 15,418 deaths (CFR: 2.1%) have been reported in 54 African countries. This is 5% of all cases reported globally. Since the last brief, 125,481 new COVID-19 cases have been reported, which is an increase of 21% compared to the 14 July...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 20 hours ago 155 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Recommendations for the Prevention of Postpartum Haemorrhage

Bleeding after childbirth (postpartum haemorrhage) is an important cause of maternal mortality, accounting for nearly one quarter of all maternal deaths worldwide. Common causes for postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) include failure of the uterus to contract adequately after birth leading to atonic PPH, t...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
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Humanitarian Action for Children 2019 Overview

Violence against children takes many sinister forms. In homes, schools, communities and online around the world, it manifests itself in debilitating physical and emotional abuse. In humanitarian emergencies - especially those driven by relentless armed conflicts - violence can result in death, serio...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
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Report: Cross Country Learning on Community Health System Integration and Financing

The document titled Report: Cross Country Learning on Community Health System Integration and Financing offers a comprehensive insight into Community Health, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Community Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 18 hours ago 155 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Essential Maternal and Newborn Clinical Care Guidelines for Uganda, May 2022

For Uganda to achieve its SDG targets requires steepening the rate of MMR declined by��5.5% to achieve <140/100,000 by 2030, IMR has to reduce to at least 12 per 1000 live births and U5MR to 25 per 1000 live births by 2030. The MPDSR report for the FY 2020/2021 shows that the three major causes of i...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
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Dengue Fever Technical Factsheet

Dengue fever is an acute febrile disease caused by any of the four existing dengue virus serotypes (DENV1,2,3,4). ● Dengue is found worldwide in tropical and sub-tropical regions, mostly in urban and semi-urban areas. It is endemic in about 100 countries, including in tropical areas of Africa. ● Den...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
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Synthesis, Consolidation and Building Consensus on Key and Priority Population Size Estimation Numbers in Uganda Final ReportINAL REPORT October 2019

Despite marked advancement in prevention, care and treatment, HIV in Uganda continues to exert severe constraints on the public health and economic well-being of a sizeable proportion of the population. The type of HIV epidemic in Uganda is described as severe, mature, and generalized but with sub-e...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 127 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

World Health Statistics 2021 2021: Monitoring Health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals

The World health statistics report is the World Health Organization (WHO) annual compilation of the latest available data on health and health-related indicators for its 194 Member States. The report is produced by the WHO Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact, in collaboration with WH...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 16 hours ago 133 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 43, 24th - 30th October, 2016

In Week 43 of 2016, the proportion of health facilities that reported this week was 86.3% which signifies a 56.9% increase in reporting rate as comparison to the same week in 2015. Since week 1 of 2016, there has been a steady national reporting rate of 80% and above. Only 24.1% (28/116) districts h...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
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Digital Health Enterprise Architecture, Standards and Knowledge Products

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...

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Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
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Anti Tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World Report

This is the fourth report of the WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance. The three previous reports were published in 1997, 2000 and 2004 and included data from 35, 58 and 77 countries, respectively. This report includes drug susceptibility test (DST) results fro...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Quality Of Care Implementation Guide For Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health & Nutrition Services

The Quality of Care Implementation Guide for Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal,�Child, Adolescent Health, and Nutrition (RMNCAH-N) provides practical guidance�on�RMNCAH-N�quality�improvement�activities�by�level of�care�and�facilitate�implementation�of RNMCAH-N health service quality standards in acco...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Weekly malaria status - Uganda week 35, 2018.

This publication is about the malaria case statistics of Uganda in the 35th week of 2018.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Policy Guidelines 2017

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Policy Guidelines are designed to promote Mental Health and prevent Mental, Neurological and Substance use disorders among children and adolescents. These guidelines are a statement by the Government of Uganda to set a clear direction in development of Mental,...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
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