Global Nutrition Report 2015

The Global Nutrition Report 2015 reminds us of the paramount importance of nutrition to human well-being and productivity. The underlying message of the report is that, unless governments, donors, and stakeholders commit to and make themselves accountable for improved nutrition in our societies, ach...

Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting 2005 Statistical Exploration

Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is ��the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons.��1 It is estimated that more than 130 million girls and women alive today have undergone FGM/C, pri...

UNAIDS special report 2013

The number of people living with HIV who are accessing referral centres in the country has continued to grow since the introduction of universal and free antiretroviral therapy (ART). People also now have access to treatment for coinfection with TB and hepatitis B and C. Similarly, clinical and labo...

Guidelines for On-Boarding and Engagement of Health Workers November, 2017

These guidelines are developed to support the onboarding process of health workers, promote their levels of engagement and improve the rate of retention. This is against the background that the Ministry of Health planned to conduct massive recruitment at all levels of health service delivery. Curren...

Global Atlas on cardiovascular disease prevention and control

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the biggest cause of death worldwide. More than 17 million people died from CVDs in 2008. More than 3 million of these deaths occurred before the age of 60 and could have largely been prevented. The percentage of premature deaths from CVDs ranges from 4% in high...

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (30 June 2020)

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...

The Tunisian Women Doctors Leading the Struggle Against COVID-19: Hope for the Rise of a New Ethical Culture

Tunisia, like the other countries of the Arab Maghreb, is especially vulnerable to the impact of the novel coronavirus both to their healthcare systems and economies. Still transforming since the fall of Zinedine Ben Ali’s dictatorship in 2011, the Tunisian health sector is still strick...

Web-Based ARV Ordering and Reporting System (WAOS) Report Period: 1st October 2019

Facility reporting rates are calculated based on the total number of active ART facilities as of 1st October 2019. An ART facility is considered active if it submitted at least one order and or report in the last twelve months. The reporting rates for this cycle were 99% for PNFP facilities, 90% for...

Africa CDC Weekly Event Based Surveillance Report, November 2023

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...

HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is a global crisis and constitutes one of the most formidable obstacles towards sustainable development and social progress. In the most affected countries, the impact of HIV/AIDS poses a severe threat to every aspect of life, as it erodes decades of developmental gains and thr...

Guidance for national Tuberculosis programmes on the management of Tuberculosis in children

Important recent changes or additions to guidelines for the management of tuberculosis (TB) in children have made it necessary to revise the first edition of Guidance for national tuberculosis programmes on the management of tuberculosis in children, published by WHO in 2006. Like the 2006 guidance,...

Violence against Women The Health Sector Responds

Studies from different countries show that the percentage of women 15 to 49 years old who've experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime ranges from 15% to 71%

Report from Consensus Meeting on use of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria Case Management in Uganda

Uganda has recently changed its malaria treatment policy to reflect the global policy of shifting from non-artemisinin-based combination therapies. In 2004, the first line treatment for uncomplicated malaria, chloroquine+SP, was replaced with artemether/lumefantrine. Implementation of this new drug...

Information Technology policy for Uganda : Final draft

This policy has been developed to foster the development of IT as an industry as well as spearhead development of IT Enabled Services (ITES).

Integrated Community Case Management of Childhood Malaria, Pneumonia and Diarrhoea : Implementation guidelines

This document is to guide policy makers, managers, districts, health workers, communities, NGOs and all other stakeholders on how to implement integrated community case management (ICCM) of childhood malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea to reduce under mortality and take actions to introduce, implement,...

Health Sector Gender Statistics Profile Uganda

Development of the Gender Statistics Profiles is anchored in the Beijing Platform for Action, which underscores the need for gender analysis as one of the critical starting point for Gender Mainstreaming. The main objectives of compiling the Gender Statistics Profile were to establish the level of...

Explicatif Dclaration dUrgence Sanitaire de Scurit Continentale

Elle permettrait de mobiliser les ressources nécessaires, de renforcer la coordination régionale, de sensibiliser davantage, et d’assurer une réponse rapide et efficace pour maîtriser la propagation de la maladie et protéger la santé publique sur le continent Africain.

Eswatini Health & Human Research Review Board Ethics

Introduction

The Ministry of Health (MoH) identifies research as a key component for strengthening policy, planning,

monitoring and evaluation of systems in the health sector. In order to safeguard the dignity, rights, safety

and wellbeing of research participants; the Eswatini...

What you should know about the 2019 novel Coronavirus Disease

The document titled What you should know about the 2019 novel Coronavirus Disease offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa, Western...

The World Bank News Letter - UCREPP

The key highlight in this edition is the site handovers for the construction of modern Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in the three health facilities at Arua, Hoima, and Kabale Regional Referral Hospitals that took place on the 15th, August, 23rd August, and 1st September 2023, respectively.