The integrated Human Resource Information System (iHRIS) is a computerized Human Resources management tool consisting of electronic databases for storing, reporting, and analysing data from the time professionals enter preservice training to when they leave the workforce to ensure timely availabilit...
The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Mozambique 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...
Au 30 Août 2022 à 18 heures, heure de l’Afrique de l’Est (HAE), un total de 12 044 531 cas de COVID-19 et 255 5931 décès (CFR : 2,1%) ont été signalés par les 55 États membres de l’Union africaine (UA). Cela représente 2% de tous les cas et 4% de tous les décès signalés dans le monde. Quarante (73%)...
Community HIV Counselling and Testing (COHCT) is an approach that utilises existing community competencies in dealing with HIV/AIDS in general, and HIV counselling and testing in particular. The COHCT concept is premised on the knowledge that HIV counselling and testing is an entry point into HIV pr...
Uganda has been hosting refugees for a long time, but the years 2016 and 2017 have presented the highest ever recorded inflows of refugees into the country with the current numbers standing at close to 1.3 million. After realizing the protracted nature of displacement in the region, Uganda adopted a...
The Apapai Health Centre IV laboratory in Serere district, Eastern Uganda, is busy today with ten patients waiting to have their lab tests taken. The laboratory technician, Samuel Oule, is confident that he has enough of the right laboratory supplies to run tests for all the patients he will see tod...
In August 2014, WHO drafted the Ebola Response Roadmap to set out the core strategy for stopping this unprecedented outbreak and to provide the basis for a significantly increased response. This was the basis for the UN system��s Overview of Needs and Requirements (ONR) and STEPP Strategy that follo...
This survey on Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices on HIV/AIDS and Child Labour in Uganda was commissioned by ILO/IPEC Uganda. The overall aim of the survey was to enable ILO/IPEC Uganda and partners to develop appropriate interventions within Kampala, Mukono, Mbale and Rakai with the view of contrib...
The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Côte d’Ivoire 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, No...
Africa has a high disease burden which not only poses a threat to the health of its people but also impedes its progress towards achieving the Goal 1.3 Healthy and well-nourished citizens of the African Union (AU) Agenda 2063. Africa is also the youngest continent in terms of population, with approx...
The 2007 Uganda Service Provision Assessment (USPA) survey collected data from a representative sample of 491 health facilities throughout Uganda. The survey covered all levels of facilities, from HC-IIs to hospitals, and sampled facilities operated by different managing authorities, including gover...
Several studies have found significant association between male circumcision and HIV infection. Recent studies in African men have demonstrated that male circumcision reduces the risk of HIV acquisition among medically circumcised men by approximately 60%. In addition, male circumcision has been sho...
PART I: COVID-19 REPORT………………………………………………………………………………………………1 Epidemiologic update, Africa, 31 December 2020………………………………………………………. 2 Strategic Coordination…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 Strategic Initiatives………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Personnel Training and Deployment…………...
When injected with the vaccine, the body responds to the germ proteins in the vaccine by producing specific antibodies that attach to the proteins and prepare the body to fight infection by the germ. When the real germ then infects the body, the antibodies attach to proteins on the surface of the ge...
By end of June 2010, there were 414 accredited facilities providing ART services in the public and private sector in Uganda. The number of active ART clients had increased to 237,070 by June 2010, of whom 89 percent were adults aged over 15 years, 8 percent were children aged less than 15 years, and...
The Nurses And Midwives Act
This is a detailed manual giving a step by step approach to undertaking the pharmacovigilance of antimalarials. It is intended to be a source of practical advice for Pharmacovigilance Centres. A number of WHO publications are available that provide a background to pharmacovigilance and, as far as po...
The Organization must regularly invest in longer-term capital projects, in order to provide an effective and secure working environment for its staff. A Real Estate Fund was established under resolution WHA23.14 (1970) in order to provide funds for, inter alia, major maintenance and repairs to WHO b...
As of 9 am EAT 4 August 2020, a total of 968,020 COVID-19 cases and 20,612 deaths (CFR: 2%) have been reported in 55 African countries. This is 5% of all cases reported globally. Since the last brief, 108,783 new COVID-19 cases have been reported, which is an increase of 13% compared to the 28 July...
Reproductive and sexual health2 is fundamental to individuals, couples and families, and the social and economic development of communities and nations. Concerned about the slow progress made in improving reproductive and sexual health over the past decade, and knowing that the international develop...