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National Implementation Guidelines for HIV Counselling and Testing in Uganda

Uganda has a mature generalised HIV epidemic with prevalence exceeding 6% and an estimated one million people living with HIV1. Sub-national longitudinal studies2 and indirect estimates3 indicate a rising rate of new infections with HIV incidence ranging from 0.2-2.0% in different regions of the cou...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 166 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Millennium Development Goals : Uganda's Progress Report 2007

The report shows that although Uganda has made progress since the last reporting period there is still a long way to go if we are to achieve all the goals by 2015 especially the health related goals on child mortality and maternal health.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 173 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 18: COVID-19 Pandemic 19 May 2020

[1] WHO COVID-19 surveillance guidance and case definition: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/surveillance-and-case-definitions[2] WHO coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation reports: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/si...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-18-covid-19-pandemic-19-may-2020/?ind=1590238266804&fi...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 139 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Sanitation and Cleanliness for a Healthy Environment

Keeping clean and disposing of human waste (feces and urine) are necessary for good health. If they are not taken care of in a safe way, our feces and urine can pollute the environment and cause serious health problems, such as diarrhea, worms, cholera, and bladder infections. Many of these problems...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Environmental Health and Sanitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 154 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 148 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Adolescent Girls Vulnerability Index Guiding Strategic Investment in Uganda

The Adolescent Girls Multilevel Vulnerability Index (AGI) was developed based on a growing recognition of the need to channel resources to vital��yet highly vulnerable and vastly underserved��populations of adolescent girls in Uganda specifically, and the East and Southern Africa region in general....

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Adolescent Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 6 hours ago 185 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Anthrax in humans and animals

Anthrax essentially ceased to be regarded as a disease of major health or economic importance after the enormous successes of Max Sterne��s veterinary vaccine developed in the 1930s, and subsequent analogs in the former Soviet Union, in dramatically reducing the incidence of the disease in livestock...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Anthrax%20in%20humans%20and%20Animals%2020...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 133 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Human Resource Information System Train Users Manual

The integrated Human Resource Information System (iHRIS) is a computerized Human Resources (HR) management tool consisting of electronic databases for storing, reporting, and analyzing that enables to design and manage a comprehensive HR strategy. It links all HR data from the time professionals ent...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/HRIS%20Train%20User%E2%80%99s%20Manual.pdf
Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 153 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

2nd International Conference on Re-emerging Infectious Diseases

Several factors are contributing to the (re)emergence of infectious diseases such as population growth, living in close contact with animals, frequent travelling, poverty, destructive ecological changes due to economic development and land use and climate change result in global warming.Especially A...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 144 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Cameroon

The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Cameroon 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, Norther...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 142 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

World report on child injury prevention 2008

Child injuries have been neglected for many years, and are largely absent from child survival initiatives presently on the global agenda. Th rough this World report on child injury prevention, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children��s Fund and many partners have set out to elevat...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/World%20report%20on%20child%20injury%20pre...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 days ago 143 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 90: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

As of 9 a.m. East African Time (EAT) 5 October 2021, a total of 8,343,967 COVID-19 cases and 212,484 deaths (CFR: 2.5%) have been reported in 55 African Union (AU) Member States. This represents 3.6% of all cases and 4.4% of all deaths reported globally. Twenty-seven (49%) AU Member States are repor...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-90-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=163...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda Health Accounts

The total Current Health Expenditure (CHE) in Uganda in 2012/13 was Shs. 4,866 billion that translates to a per capita spending of Shs. 144,374 ($55). This increased in nominal terms by 1.7% and in real terms by Shs. 86 billion to 4,952 billion in 2013/14 that translates to� a per capita spending of...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Health%20Accounts-%20FINAL%20RE...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 195 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Abuja Declaration 2013

The document titled Abuja Declaration 2013 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, Western Africa,...

https://africacdc.org/download/abuja-declaration-2013/?ind=1567074965211&filename=Abuja-Declaration-...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 174 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Using indicators to measure country pharmaceutical situations

The WHA 54.11 WHO medicines strategy acknowledged the four main objectives of WHO��s medicines strategy, namely, to frame and implement policy; to ensure access; to ensure quality, safety and efficacy; and to promote rational use of medicines. The WHO medicines strategy 2004-2007 presents the strate...

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Theme: Prevention
Sub Theme: Pharmaceuticals and Drugs
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 137 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Consolidated Guideline on Self-Care Interventions for Health Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Self-care interventions are among the most promising and exciting new approaches to improve health and well-being, both from a health systems perspective and for people who use these interventions. The World Health Organization (WHO) uses the following working definition of self-care: Self-care is t...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 133 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin Week 52: 23rd-29th 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 the country on a weekly basis. In this issue,...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 days ago 131 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidelines for management of community health workforce 2016

The first section is the introduction. The purpose of this section is to give the structural outline of the document. It is under this section that the justification (the why?) of the guidelines is presented. The other sub-sections include a brief description of how the guidelines were developed and...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 150 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Women and Health, Proceedings of International Symposium on Gender-Sensitive Medicine Chiba Prefecture, Japan, 1 March 2003 WHO Kobe Centre 2003

This executive summary of the International Symposium on Gender-Sensitive Medicine, organized by the WHO Centre for Health Development (WHO Kobe Centre - WKC) in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, on 1 March 2003, is based on material derived from the preparation, documentation, programme of work, deliberatio...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Women%20and%20Health.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Antenatal Card-Revised

Antenatal cards are issued to women who come for antenatal visits when they are pregnant.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/ANC%20Card-%20revised%203.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 285 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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