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WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2019

WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic provides comparable data to enable analysis of progress towards protecting the world��s people from what is now globally the biggest single preventable cause of death. As this latest edition shows, there is much to applaud. Already 5 billion people are now c...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 95 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 135: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

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...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-135-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=16...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 92 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Mastercard Foundation: Saving Lives and Livelihoods Newsletter, October 2023

Currently, 14 African Union Member States have vaccinated at least 70 percent of their eligible populations with the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the WHO Tanzania and São Tomé and Príncipe have fully vaccinated their populations, while Botswana has immunized 94 percent of theirs Mauritius, Seychel...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 92 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidance on Contact Tracing for COVID-19 Pandemic

The document titled Guidance on Contact Tracing for 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 Africa, Souther...

https://africacdc.org/download/guidance-on-contact-tracing-for-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=1586465282271&...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 89 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 115: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 115: 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-115-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=16...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 89 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Interim Guidance on the Use of Rapid Antigen tests for COVID-19 Response

The document titled Interim Guidance on the Use of Rapid Antigen tests for COVID-19 Response 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/interim-guidance-on-the-use-of-rapid-antigen-tests-for-covid-19-respo...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 100 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID 19 Vaccine Perceptions: A 15 country study

Since the emergence of COVID 19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 the disease has been declared a global pandemic and has been associated with the deaths of more than 2 3 million people around the world. It continues to be a dynamic and evolving pandemic.The first case in Africa was reported in Egyp...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-vaccine-perceptions-a-15-country-study/?ind=1615395834594&fi...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 95 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin week 11, 9th15th Mar 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 bring...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 108 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

HIV Voluntary Counselling and Testing: a gateway to prevention and care

Voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) is the process by which an individual undergoes counselling, enabling him or her to make an informed choice about being tested for HIV1. In recent years, voluntary HIV testing, in combination with pre- and post-test counselling, has

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 116 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (22 September 2020)

A. Executive summary ● Two studies report on a possibility of in-flight transmission of SARS-COV-2 over long commercial flights among passengers and flight attendants. The studies suggest that guidelines for preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection among passengers should consider individual passengers’ risk...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 103 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The occupational safety and health Act, 2006

This publication is basically about� the terminologies used in health ministry of Uganda.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 124 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National policy on traditional medicine and regulation of herbal medicines

Traditionalȱ medicineȱ (TM)ȱ hasȱ alwaysȱ maintainedȱ itsȱ popularic

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 90 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Population Policy For Social Transformation and Sustainable Development

The Government of Uganda recognizes that its population is its most important asset.As H.E.President Museveni himself once declared,��The wealth of a country is not stones in the ground but� in its people�� (Yoweri Museveni in His Own Words, 2001)

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 101 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 25, 20th - 26th June, 2016

All the 112 districts reported with an average reporting rate of 82.7% which is similar to that of the previous week and 10% decrease in reporting rate compared to the same week in 2015. An overall of 17% (19/112) had 100% of all their health facilities reporting and 59.8% (97/112) of the districts...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 91 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 39: 21st-27th SEP 2020

We are pleased to share our 39th weekly epidemiological bulletin for the year 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 respond...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 93 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Use of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests

Malaria rapid diagnostic tests, sometimes called ��dipsticks�� or ��malaria rapid diagnostic devices�� (MRDDs), detect specific antigens (proteins) produced by malaria parasites. These antigens are present in the blood of infected or recently infected people. The RDT signifies their presence by a co...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 100 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (06 July 2022)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (06 July 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, North...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-06-july-2022/?ind...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 94 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (01 December 2020)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (01 December 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, N...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-01-december-2020/...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 19 hours ago 89 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).

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 102 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence 998

The thirty-seventh meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from 16 to 20 November 2015. Mr Cornelis de Joncheere, Director, WHO Department of Essential Medicines and Health Products (EMP), opened the meeting. He welcomed all participants on beh...

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Theme: Prevention
Sub Theme: Pharmaceuticals and Drugs
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 88 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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