HCF Cleaning and disinfection procedures during EVD

HCF Cleaning and disinfection procedures during EVD presentation is part of the EVD IPC training material for Health Centre IIs and Pharmacies.�The holding area in pharmacies and HCF II such as chair or any equipment�touched by a suspect EVD case will require cleaning and disinfection after�the case...

The Selection and use of Essential Medicines 985

The 19th meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 8 to 12 April 2013. The report was approved by the Committee on 1 October 2013. The purpose of the meeting was to review and update the 17th WHO Model List of Essentia...

Management of Drugs at Health Centre Level : training manual

The main purpose of the field testing was to ascertain the suitability of the material for teaching drug management to health workers who are given the responsibility of managing drugs, particularly at the health centre or other similar levels. Most of these health workers have had no formal trainin...

Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the Partnership to Accelerate COVID-19 Testing

This document provides a framework for monitoring and evaluating PACT implementation and decision-making at the continental level.Africa CDC will use all possible mechanisms through its Regional Collaborating Centres (RCCs), the Regional Economic Communities (RECs), other partners such as the World...

Guinea Worm Brochure

Over 96% of all cases are from the Northern Region, with only five of Ghana’s ten regions reporting indigenous cases of Guinea worm disease during 2007. Four of these regions—namely, Ashanti, Upper West, Volta, and Brong-Ahafo—are set to break transmission during 2008.

Four other regions, n...

Newborn Component of the Child Survival Strategy in Uganda Implementation Framework

There is evidence that Uganda is making progress toward the MDG 4 &5 targets by 2015 but this progress needs to be accelerated. Under- fi ve mortality rate declined from 152 per 1000 live births in 2000 to 137 in 2006 while the infant mortality rate declined by 76 from 88 per 1000 live births during...

PLAN NATIONAL DE DEVELOPPEMENT SANITAIRE 2016-2020 : vers la couverture sanitaire universelle

La RDC dispose depuis 2010 d’une seconde édition de la Stratégie de Renforcement du
Système de Santé (SRSS-2) appelée à être opérationnalisée, tous les 5 ans, par un Plan
National de Développement Sanitaire (PNDS). Le PNDS 2011-2015 a été évalué et les
résultats ont été présentés à la re...

Weekly Malaria Report - Week 27

Summary of the Malaria indicators for week 27 (4 July - 10 July 2022)

National Electronic Health Information Management System (eHMIS) User Acceptance Testing Report

This submission reports the proceedings from the mTracPro user acceptance testing and DHIS2 integration activity conducted in Ntungamo district between 21st January - 1st February, 2019. The activity aimed at assessing user acceptance of mTracPro in a real working environment. It attracted a multitu...

The Uganda National Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey, 2014-2015 Survey Report

Uganda faces a high burden of tuberculosis (TB), but accurate estimates of the burden of TB in the country were unavailable. A national prevalence survey was therefore conducted from October 2014 to July 2015 to achieve the primary objective of estimating the prevalence of bacteriologically confirme...

Community Health Extension Workers National Strategy (2018- 2022)

The goal of the strategy is to establish and strengthen the community health system as part of the larger national health system, in order to bring services closer to the community and ensure equitable distribution of community and household-centred health care services. The general objective is to...

WHOs Quality, Safety and Standards work in immunization

WHO��s quality, safety and standards work in the area of immunization focuses on enabling the use of vaccines, other biological medicines and immunization related equipment that meet current international norms and standards of quality and safety

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (14 September 2022)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (14 September 2022) 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, No...

Improving Malaria Case Management in Ugandan Communities : Lessons from the field

This case study focuses on malaria case management activities was implemented in Ssembabule District, Uganda, by Minnesota International HealthVolunteers (MIHV) during the second phase of a U.S. Agency forInternational Development (USAID)-funded Child Survival project (1996-2000).

Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 33: 10th -16th Aug 2020

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. This issue, we showcas...

Strengthening Logistics Preparedness for Infectious Disease Response in Uganda Baseline Report September 2021

Outbreaks of infectious diseases like Ebola virus disease (EVD), yellow fever, measles, or currently COVID-19, are regular occurrences in Uganda. If not detected early and effectively contained, these diseases threaten the health and economic well-being of the entire population, and beyond. Disease...

Screening donated blood for transfusion-transmissible infections: recommendations

It is the responsibility of governments to assure a safe and sufficient supply of blood and blood products for all patients requiring transfusion (1). Each country�should formulate a national blood policy and plan, as part of the national health policy, to define how safe blood and blood products w...

Outbreak Brief 20: COVID-19 Pandemic 2 June 2020

No new country or territory is reporting cases for the first time but one country (Rwanda) is reporting deaths for the first time this week. The distribution of cumulative cases (proportion of global cases %) from the WHO reporting regions (excluding Africa) are as follows: Eastern Mediterranean Reg...

Curriculum for Certificate in Nursing 2018

A major challenge to the delivery of services in the health sector is the changing nature of skills demands to the various health cadres. The shifting demands of the expected performance and competencies in tasks at different levels arise from the emerging concerns that call for different approaches...

Acute care including IDU management

The Acute Care including IDU management and Chronic HIV Care with ARV Therapy and preventionincluding IDU/HIV Co-management guidelines modules, including Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST )based on methadone or burprenorphine, can be used only after national adaptation. The guidelinesmodules need to...