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Ministry of Health, Monthly Executive Brief

This report provides a monthly update on key program indicators in the health sector. It provides an overview of; OPD attendance, admissions, top causes of mortality and morbidity, teenage pregnancy, Maternal & Perinatal deaths and public health events

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Monthly%20Executive%20Brief_August%202022....
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 8 hours ago 158 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Review of Implementation of the Ministry of Health Work Plan for 3rd and 4th Quarters 2019/20 FY (Jan to June 2020)

The workshop to review the implementation of the Ministry of Health (MoH) work plan for the third and fourth quarters for 2019/20 financial year (FY) will take place between October 6-8, 2020 in Kampala. The main objective of the workshop is to review implementation of the MoH work plan for Departme...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/MoH%20semi%20annual%20report%20FY%202019-2...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 201 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 22: COVID-19 Pandemic 16 June 2020

As of 9 am EAT 16 June 2020, a total of 251,866 COVID-19 cases and 6,769 (CFR: 2.7%) deaths have been reported in 54 African countries. This is about 3.2% of all cases reported globally. Since the last brief (9 June 2020), 55,612 new COVID-19 cases have been reported, which is a 27% increase in new...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-22-covid-19-pandemic-16-june-2020/?ind=1592394517322&f...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 19 hours ago 162 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Framework for Supply Chain Management for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response

The document titled Framework for Supply Chain Management for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/framework-for-supply-chain-management-for-public-health-emergency-pre...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 154 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Inpatient surveillance in health facilities in the context of an Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak

This job aide is a detailed step-by-step procedure used�to implement daily monitoring of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) symptoms in hospitalised�patients.� It is a very important procedure because patients may have no symptoms of EVD on screening/triage and admission. However, these symptoms may develop�...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/202210_Job%20Aide%2008_Inpatient_Surveilla...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 131 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Health Care Waste Management Plan 2009/10- 2011/12

Healthcare waste management (HCWM) in Uganda is well below minimum hygiene standards and as a result, healthcare workers, patients, and communities are exposed to nosocomial infections both within Healthcare Facilities (HCFs) and the surrounding communities. Furthermore, negative impacts on Uganda��...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Health%20care%20waste%20managem...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Environmental Health and Sanitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 hour ago 176 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Social determinants of sexual and reproductive health

While the last two decades have seen improvements in access to and utilization of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, progress in many countries has been slow and - after decades of investments - disappointing. Social activists and health analysts have highlighted the potential role that...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Social%20determinants%20of%20sexual%20and%...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 168 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Bottleneck Analysis Implementation Manual 2019

The Ministry of Health has developed the 2019 supplement to include the Bottle Neck Analysis Manual which will help in guiding the development of both central and local government health work-plans. The main aim of the Bottle Neck analysis manual is to aid evidence-based planning to increase effecti...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Bottle%20Neck%20Analysis%20Implementation%...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 181 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Optimizing Strategies for COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-out in Benin and Ghana

The document titled Optimizing Strategies for COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-out in Benin and Ghana offers a comprehensive insight into Vaccine Manufacturing, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa,...

https://africacdc.org/download/optimizing-strategies-for-covid-19-vaccine-roll-out-in-benin-and-ghan...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Vaccine Manufacturing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 141 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

New SARS-CoV-2 variants in Africa

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...

https://africacdc.org/download/new-sars-cov-2-variants-in-africa/?ind=1611934597139&filename=New SAR...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 155 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Gender, women and primary health care renewal a discussion paper

The goal of equality between women and men is a basic principle of the United Nations (UN), which is set out in the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations. This commitment to promote gender equality and women��s empowerment was reaffi rmed in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Gender%20women%20and%20primary%20health%20...
Theme: Emergency Preparedness
Sub Theme: Primary Health Care
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 141 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Ethical aspects of information and communication technologies

The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE) is an independent, pluralist and multidisciplinary body which advises the European Commission on ethical aspects of science and new technologies in connection with the preparation and implementation of European Union legislation or p...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Ethical%20Aspects%20of%20Information%20and...
Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 136 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Human Resources For Health BI-Annual Report Improving HRH Evidence for Decision Making April - September 2011

The National Health Policy and HSSIP Goal is ��to attain a good standard of health for all people in Uganda in order to promote healthy and productive lives��. In line with this goal one of the key priorities of the NHP is to address the human resource crisis and re-define the institutional framewor...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Biannual%20Report%20September%2016%2010%20...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 165 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence 998

The thirty-seventh meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from 16 to 20 November 2015. Mr Cornelis de Joncheere, Director, WHO Department of Essential Medicines and Health Products (EMP), opened the meeting. He welcomed all participants on beh...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/WHO%20Expert%20Committee%20on%20Specificat...
Theme: Prevention
Sub Theme: Pharmaceuticals and Drugs
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 173 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 71: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

As of 9 am East African Time (EAT) 25 May 2021, a total of 4,768,416 COVID-19 cases and 128,718 deaths (CFR: 2.7%) have been reported in 55 African Union (AU) Member States. This represents 3% of all cases reported globally. The 21 AU Member States reporting case fatality ratios higher than the glob...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-71-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=162...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Centre de Recherches Mdicales de Lambarn

Le CERMEL, ayant été désigné pour assurer la gestion de la subvention Tuberculose du Fonds Mondial au Gabon en 2018, met en place une unité de gestion pour laquelle divers postes sont à...

https://cermel.org/html.fr/
Theme: Detection
Sub Theme: Laboratory Systems and Network
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 6 hours ago 237 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

USING DATA TO FIND A BALANCE: Disruption to essential health services in Africa during COVID-19

This brief builds on the September 2020 “Responding to COVID-19 in Africa: Using Data to Find a Balance” report from the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC). It delves deeper into findings from PERC’s 24,000-person survey conducted in 18 African Union (AU) Member States betwee...

https://africacdc.org/download/using-data-to-find-a-balance-disruption-to-essential-health-services-...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 153 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin Week 51: 16-22 DEC 2019

This weekly 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 Uganda on a weekly basis. In this issue, we br...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Week_51_2019_Epi_bulletin.pdf
Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 130 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidance for the Continuation of Essential Health

The document titled Guidance for the Continuation of Essential Health 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, Souther...

https://africacdc.org/download/guidance-for-the-continuation-of-essential-health/?ind=1594644323851&...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 139 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidelines on Nutrition Survey Methodology in Uganda

Uganda has been highlighted as basically meeting its national food supply needs, yet it still has a large proportion of children who are malnourished. Successive demographic and health surveys show little change in nutritional status. Moreover, this is against appreciable gains in economic growth in...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Guidelines%20on%20Nutrition%20survey%20met...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 hours ago 157 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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