The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (30 June 2020) 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, North...
In Uganda HCT began in 1990 with VCT as the main model of implementation. In 2002 the MoH planned to place high-quality VCT services within the reach of every Ugandan by developing the 1st VCT policy. This worked well but only a small percentage of the population accessed the services. With the adve...
This year��s report looks at the areas where action is needed most. For example, one in eight people worldwide remain hungry. Too many women die in childbirth when we have the means to save them. More than 2.5 billion people lack improved sanitation facilities, of which one billion continue to pract...
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...
This Health Facility Master List is a complete listing of both public and private health facilities in the country. There are 6,404 health facilities and each are established under unique administrative units i.e. Region, district, health sub-district, and subcounty etc. The need to uniquely identi...
In September 2015, UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group released updated joint child malnutrition estimates for the 1990 to 2014 period, which represent the most recent global and regional figures after adding 62 new surveys from 57 countries to the joint dataset. This key findings report summarizes the...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (02 February 2021) 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, N...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 103: 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...
The document titled COVID-19 Guidance on use of Personal Protective Equipment for different clinical settings and activities offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within C...
The revised HTS policy and Implementation guidelines replace the 2010 Uganda HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) Policy and National Implementation guidelines for HCT, 2010. It is informed by new evidence generated from implementation of HTS at international, regional and national levels as well as le...
It is believed that fruit bats are the natural hosts of the Ebola virus Introduced into the human population through close contact with infected animals. Introduction to Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) presentation is part of the EVD IPC training material for HC IIs and Pharmacies.
The document titled Outbreak Brief 135: 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...
This weekly report is a statistical representation of the malaria events that happened in the country during the week of�18th Dec to 24th Dec 2023.
In 2007, the World Health Assembly passed a Resolution titled ��Better Medicines for Children��. This resolution recognized the need for research and development into medicines for children, including better dosage forms, better evidence and better information about how to ensure that medicines or t...
The purpose of this basic level training resource is to assist with the training of primary ear and hearing workers in developing countries, especially focused on Village Health Care Workers. The role of the village health care worker is vitally important for the prevention of ear and hearing disord...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 109: 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...
The Office views risk as the possibility of an event occurring that will influence the achievement of objectives. It assesses risk in terms of degree of impact and likelihood of occurrence. Methodical consideration of risk guides the Office��s prioritization of activities and provides a basis for wo...
The core list presents a list of minimum medicine needs for a basic health care system, listing the most efficacious, safe and cost-effective medicines for priority conditions. Priority conditions are selected on the basis of current and estimated future public health relevance, and potential for sa...
The document titled African Antibiotic Treatment Guidelines for Common Bacterial Infections and Syndromes – Recommended Antibiotic Treatments in Adult Patients offers a comprehensive insight into Antimicrobial Resistance Control, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses cri...
This Ministerial Policy Statement (MPS) was prepared within the context of the Sector Wide Approach (SWAP). In a participatory framework, the Health Sector Budget Working Group worked with respective votes to compile the sector performance for FY 2010/11 and identified the Sector priorities for FY 2...
