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Statement on the Use of Ivermectin for COVID-19

While there are some studies that suggest potential effectiveness of ivermectin in the prevention and management of COVID-19, existing data has limitations: 1. Most of the studies had small numbers of participants. 2. The doses and schedules of Ivermectin administration varied. 3. Some patients taki...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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Disabled Village Children A guide for community health workers, rehabilitation workers, and families

This book has been a cooperative effort. Many persons have contributed in different ways. Some have helped to write or rewrite different sections; some have criticized early drafts; some have used it in their programs and sent us feedback; some have sent original ideas or technologies that we have t...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Disability and Rehabilitation
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Occupational Safety and Health Act 2006

An Act to consolidate, harmonize and update the law relating to occupational safety and health; to repeal the Factories Act, Cap 220 and to provide for connected matters.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 169 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Humanitarian Action for Children 2015 Overview

The year 2014 was one of sharp contrasts for the world��s children - posing new challenges for UNICEF��s work to improve their lives and emphasizing the critical necessity of investing in heir resilience, before, during, and after emergencies. In November, we marked the 25th anniversary of the Conve...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 112 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 1988/89

The Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) was conducted at a time when Uganda needed baseline information for planning and implementing national and regional programmes. The survey was conducted as part of the worldwide Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) programme in which surveys are being...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 23 hours ago 128 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (16 June 2020)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (16 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...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 132 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Prevention of deafness and hearing loss

Globally, 360 million people (about 5% of the world��s population) live with disabling hearing loss, of whom 32 million are children. The prevalence of hearing loss increases from 1.7% among children to 7% in adults (including 183 million males and 145 million females).1 Nearly 180 million people ag...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Disability and Rehabilitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Reproductive maternal, Newborn and Child Health Sharpened Plan for Uganda November 2013

Over the last twenty years, Uganda has experienced slow progress in reduction of child and maternal mortality rates (MDG 4 and 5). We have the tools and knowledge to change that trajectory to bring an end to preventable deaths; with greater participation of all partners and stakeholders, a change in...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 129 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Malaria weekly Status - Uganda Week 25 17th June to 23rd June 2019

Reporting rate this week (82.9%) is five percentage points higher to that in the previous week, 2019W24 (77.9%)�There were an increase in malaria morbidity this week. About 27,000 more malaria cases occurred this week (268,567) compared to 241,802 the previous week. About 8.6% (11/128) of districts...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Child-Focused Policy Research Agenda

With more than 56% of the population below 18 years of age, and over 78% under the age of 35, Uganda��s vision of becoming a middle-income country by 2040 remains highly contingent on the Government��s ability to safeguard its children��s right to contribute to national development.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 132 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 22: 25th -31st May 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. In this issue, we brin...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 131 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (23 June 2020)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (23 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-23-june-2020/?ind...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 172 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Working with men for HIV prevention and care

This document has been produced in order to help those working with men, specifically in the field of HIV prevention as well as more broadly in the areas of improved sexual and reproductive health.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 130 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 68: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 68: 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-68-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=162...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 hours ago 126 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 hours ago 127 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Zambia

The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Zambia 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...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 118 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (8 June 2022)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (8 June 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, Northe...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-8-june-2022/?ind=...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 116 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

25 Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water : 2015 update and MDG assessment.

Section A provides an overview of progress against the parameters specified in the MDG target for water and sanitation, in both urban and rural areas. It presents data for the world as a whole, and compares progress across regions. The report goes on to examine trends over the MDG period by region a...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Environmental Health and Sanitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 45 Minutes ago 133 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Human Development Report 2007/2008

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. We are faced now with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late��We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her pa...

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Theme: Workforce Development
Sub Theme: Human Resource Development
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 hours ago 123 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Rising cases of Pneumonia in Mainland-China

• Firstly, the lifting of COVID-19 social measures such as wearing masks, social distancing, handwashing, and restricted movements which allowed individuals with compromised immune systems or those without necessary vaccinations/boosters to interact freely. • And secondly, seasonal fluctuations, inc...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 117 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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