The document titled Report of assessment and partnership visit to Rabat and Casablanca, Morocco offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Morocco, providing valuable guidance and data for public hea...
This publication is about how to make safe blood especially for tranfusion. Making blood free of contegious diseases like HIV/AIDS thus reducing the risk of transmitting such diseases.
As of 9 a.m. East African Time (EAT) 9 November 2021, a total of 8,548,064 COVID-19 cases and 219,787 deaths (CFR: 2.6%) have been reported in 55 African Union (AU) Member States. This represents 3.4% of all cases and 4.4% of all deaths reported globally. Twenty-seven (49%) AU Member States are repo...
The Carter Center River Blindness Elimination Program held its 21st annual review, March 27-29, 2017 at its Atlanta headquarters. The review focused on the 2016 RBEP achievements, challenges, and operational research and provided recommendations for 2017 activities in each of the RBEP assited countr...
Every year some 10.6 million children die before they reach their fifth birthday. Seven out of every 10 of these deaths are due to diarrhoea, pneumonia, measles, malaria or malnutrition. The WHO manual Management of Severe Malnutrition: a manual for physicians and other senior health workers and the...
For all districts, at least one health facility weekly surveillance report was in week 36 of 2016. The proportion of health facilities that reported this week was 83.9% which represents a 45.2% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2015. 16.5% (19/115) districts had 100% of th...
Shots in arms: Update on Saving Lives and LivelihoodsThe following are key highlights of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative since its launch:Second Global COVID-19 Summit: In recognition of the Foundation’s significant commitment and action to deliver COVID-19 vaccinations, Mastercard Found...
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...
National quantification of EMHLS is an annual exercise conducted by NMS under the direct supervision of MoH, and the exercise is intended to provide all public sector players/stakeholder in the health sector with feedback about facility needs in accordance with the NMS Act Cap 207 that states in par...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 49: 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...
This study demonstrates the relevance of tobacco control in achieving each of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals. It outlines the occurrence of the high yet increasing prevalence of tobacco use in the developing world, and documents the negative impact that tobacco cultivation and...
The Statistical Abstract is an annual publication compiled by Uganda Bureau of Statistics, which provides the statistical summary on various socio-economic indicators for Uganda. Some figures in this edition may vary from those in the earlier editions due to the updates. Note that some of the CY 201...
The Prevention 2020 Road Map provides the basis for a country-led movement to scale up HIV prevention programmes as part of Fast-Tracking a comprehensive response to meet global and national targets and commitments to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
This report contains the findings of the study on ��Factors that Influence Decisions to Seek Medical Male Circumcision (MMC) Services�� commissioned by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg University - Health Communication Partnership (HCP) with funding from the United States Agency for International Develop...
Geographic Focus: Reports could either focus on events affecting single country or multiple countries.Inclusion criteria: While Africa CDC continues to track all public health events on the continent, this report highlights only moderate to very high-risk events (with new updates in the reporting we...
World Health Statistics 2017 focuses on the health and health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets by bringing together data on a wide range of relevant SDG indicators. In some cases, as indicator definitions are being refined and baseline data are being collected, pro...
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how and why HIV should be considered in each of the PEAP pillars. It provides a set of core questions, which need to be considered in developing Sector PEAP Review Papers (SPRP) and the construction of each pillar as well as suggestions to help guide the...
The document titled Guidance on Environmental decontamination 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...
The document titled Medical PPE production in Africa: Promoting Local Manufacturers to support the COVID-19 Response (Workshop report) offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenge...
Uganda launched its National eHealth Policy and Strategy in May 2018.1 Leadership and governance, workforce development, enterprise architecture, health information systems integration, and interoperability are the strategy��s key areas of implementation. Most important, the strategy calls for ��har...
