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Safe Vaccination Administration in the Context of COVID-19 in Africa

Risk dimension Healthcare workers/vaccinators and vaccine recipients may be at risk of exposure to COVID-19, but adherence to infection prevention and control (IPC) measures can reduce the risk of transmission. Administrative controls, including universal screening and triage, and environmental cont...

https://africacdc.org/download/safe-vaccination-administration-in-the-context-of-covid-19-in-africa/...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 187 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Mpox Molecular Diagnostic Tests(RT-PCR)

On 13 August 2024, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared the ongoing Mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS). This was followed the next day by the World Health Organization (WHO), which extended the alert internationally as a public...

https://africacdc.org/download/mpox-molecular-diagnostic-testsrt-pcr/?ind=1724793999847&filename=MPo...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other 3 Likes
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 304 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 50, 12th - 18th December, 2016

The proportion of health facilities that reported during week 50 was 80.4% reflecting a 18.2% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2015. Only 16.4% (19/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 53.4% (62/116) of the districts achieved the national targe...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Week%2050%202016.pdf
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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Guidelines for Managing COVID-19, April 23, 2020

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a new virus that had not been previously identified in humans and therefore no population-level immunity exists. This virus belongs to the coronaviridae family grouped together in 1968 due to existence of crown-like appearances on t...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Guidelines%20for%20Management%2...
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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 167 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The National Policy Guidelines and Service Standards for Reproductive Health Services 2001

This document has two sets of guidelines: service policy guidelines and service standards that aim at making explicit the direction of reproductive health within the context of primary health care. The service policy guidelines spell out the general rules and regulations governing reproductive healt...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Uganda%20National%20Policy%20Guidelines%20...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Adolescent Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 126 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Framework for Public Health Workforce Development, 2020-2025

The Task Force prepared this Framework for Workforce Development to describe actions that Africa CDC, Member States, and partners will take to increase both the quantity and quality of African public health professionals, including:

https://africacdc.org/download/framework-for-public-health-workforce-development-2020-2025/?ind=1583...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 170 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Service Availability Mapping (SAM)

Service Availability Mapping (SAM) in Uganda was conducted by Uganda��s Ministry of Health (MoH) resource centre and the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2004. The goal was to collect information on the availability and distribution of key health services by interviewing the district directo...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Service%20Availability%20Mapping%202006.pd...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Infrastructure
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 144 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 104: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 104: 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-104-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=16...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 127 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Food Security and Nutrition Assessment Karamoja Region, June 2015

Nearly half of households are currently food insecure with either borderline or poor Food Consumption Score, mainly due to the lean season that has seen a decline in food stocks at household level and contributed to food price rises (therefore reducing economic ability to purchase food).

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Food%20security%20and%20Nutrition%20Assess...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 148 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 24, 13th - 19th June, 2016

In week 24 of 2016, all 112 districts reported with an average reporting rate of 82.3% which is a more than 20% increase in reporting rate compared to the same week in 2015. An overall of 19.6% of the districts had 100% of all their health facilities reporting; 23 districts (21%) had all their healt...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Week%2024%202016.pdf
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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 137 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP) for Additional Financing to Uganda COVID-19 Response and Emergency Preparedness Project (P177273) November 2021

The Republic of Uganda (the Recipient) through Ministry of Health will implement the Additional Financing (AF) to the Uganda COVID-19 Response and Emergency Preparedness Project (the Project) financed by the International Development Association (the Association).The Recipient shall carry out the Pr...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/UCREPP%20AF%20Approved%20ESCP%20Environmen...
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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Diagnosis and management of severe falciparum malaria Learners Guide Communicable

This Learner's Guide, Part I of the module on the Diagnosis and Management of Severe Falciparum Malaria, is made up of teaching materials, problems and a picture quiz covering all the activities involved in diagnosing and managing severe falciparum malaria at the hospital level. This guide is based...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Diagnosis%20and%20management%20of%20severe...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 144 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Support Supervision Guidelines For Health Services

The revised support supervision guidelines are aligned to the comprehensive support supervision strategy 2019 which was designed to step-up efforts to support supervision at all levels of health care through improved planning, coordination and resourcing to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency o...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Support%20Supervision%20Guideli...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 184 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The 8th National Quality Improvement Conference 24th - 26thNovember 2021

The 8th Uganda National Quality Improvement Conference will take place 24th - 26th November 2021. We have always used this important conference to share successes, innovations, best practices used to improve the quality of health care. This year we shall focus on ��Fostering Health System Resilience...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Call%20for%20abstracts%20QI%20Conference%2...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 146 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Implementation Guide for COVID-19 Vaccines in Africa

The approaches, checklists and principles in this Guide provide practical guidance on how to address the gaps identified through the assessment, highlighting areas not covered by the Guidance on developing a national deployment and vaccination plan for COVID-19 vaccines and providing implementation...

https://africacdc.org/download/implementation-guide-for-covid-19-vaccines-in-africa/?ind=16185884085...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 152 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda Malaria Quarterly Bulletin Issue 13: Jan Mar 2016

This is the 13th issue of the Uganda Ma-laria Quarterly Bulletin that focuses on the first quarter of 2016. The aim of this bulletin is to inform district, national, and global stake-holders on progress achieved and challenges encountered in malaria control in Uganda. Most importantly, it is to enco...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Uganda%20Malaria%20Bulletin%20Issue%2013_J...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 145 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Global Tuberculosis Report 2019

This year��s global TB report reveals that countries are making progress. About 7 million people were reported to have been reached with quality TB care in 2018, up from 6.4 million in 2017. In addition, TB-related deaths dropped from 1.6 million in 2017 to 1.5 million in 2018. However, TB remains t...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Global%20Tuberculosis%20Report%202019.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 136 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

A Brief Guide to iHRIS Train

The education and training of a health workforce contributes to the quality of services they provide their communities. Many countries lack information about health worker training, pre-service and in-service, making it difficult to track, plan, and manage training and deployment for the health work...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/HRIS_Train_Brief.pdf
Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 158 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Avoiding Heart Attacks and Strokes Dont be a victim Protect yourself

Every year, about 12 million people throughout the world die of a heart attack or a stroke. These diseases affect the poor as well as the rich. Most people think that they are diseases of middle-aged men. The truth is that both men and women suffer from heart attacks and strokes. Women are much more...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Avoiding%20heart%20Attack%20and%20Strokes....
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Non-communicable diseases and risk factors
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 174 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

African Union and the Africa CDCs Africa Regulatory Taskforce has endorsed the Emergency Use Authorisation of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine (Vero Cell [Inactivated]) CoronaVac

In order to properly guide Member States, the Africa Regulatory Taskforce has developed a framework (https://africacdc.org/download/guidance-on-emergency-expedited-regulatory-authorisation-and-access-to-covid-19-vaccines-in-africa/) for market authorisation of COVID-19 vaccines, which include three...

https://africacdc.org/download/african-union-and-the-africa-cdcs-africa-regulatory-taskforce-has-end...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 162 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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