The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (22 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, North...
Situation Summary COVID-19 infections in Africa continue to be dominated by the SARS-COV-2 Omicron Variant. Since its emergence, Omicron has rapidly evolved into multiple subvariants. One subvariant, BF.7 also known as BA.5.2.1.7, has recently been identified as the main variant spreading in Beijing...
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...
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...
Untreated HIV infection leads to progressive immunodeficiency and increased susceptibility to infections, including TB. HIV is driving the TB epidemic in many countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and, increasingly, in Asia and South America.TB in populations with high HIV prevalence is a lead...
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...
This is the fourth report of the WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance. The three previous reports were published in 1997, 2000 and 2004 and included data from 35, 58 and 77 countries, respectively. This report includes drug susceptibility test (DST) results fro...
The document titled African Antibiotic Treatment Guidelines for Common Bacterial Infections and Syndromes – Recommended Antibiotic Treatments in Neonatal and Pediatric Patients offers a comprehensive insight into Antimicrobial Resistance Control, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance....
The document titled Outbreak Brief 139: 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 module is part of the WHO Mental Health Policy and Service guidance package, which provides practical information to assist countries to improve the mental health of their populations.
Uganda like many of the developing countries is faced by a number of human resource challenges. An analysis of the HRH situation reveals an HRH crisis in the country characterized by a critical shortage of health workers with nearly 50% of the districts operating below 50% of the approved staffing e...
This handbook aims to make the case that strategizing - meaning designing plans and policies to achieve a particular goal related to the health of a nation - is absolutely critical in the 21st century. It is not only recommended by the Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO), but is als...
Today and every day, the lives of vast numbers of people lie in the hands of health systems. From the safe delivery of a healthy baby to the care with dignity of the frail elderly, health systems have a vital and continuing responsibility to people throughout the lifespan. They are crucial to the he...
The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with key stakeholders, has developed this communication strategy to promote Safe Male Circumcision (SMC) in Uganda. The goal of the communication strategy is to contribute to the reduction in HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections incidences through in...
The SARA/DQR serves as a monitoring and evaluation tool of the national health strategy and provides key information on progress of health system strengthening over time. It facilitates identification of gaps and weaknesses responsible for suboptimal service provision and intervention coverage that...
The World Health Statistics series is WHO��s annual compilation of health statistics for its 194 Member States. The series is produced by the WHO Department of Information, Evidence and Research, of the Health Metrics and Measurement Cluster, in collaboration with all relevant WHO technical departme...
Tuberculosis (TB) prevalence surveys are most valuable in areas where notification data obtained through routine surveillance are of unproven accuracy or incomplete, and in areas with an estimated prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed TB of more than 100 per 100 000. To help in assessing the per...
The National Health Laboratory Strategic Plan (NHLSP) provides a national framework to guide investments in laboratory services by the Government of Uganda and Health Development partners. It aims to strengthen coordination, implementation and management of the services and ensure that they are tran...
Child mortality is a core indicator for child health and well-being. In 2000, world leaders agreed on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and called for reducing the under-five mortality rate by two thirds between 1990 and 2015 - known as the MDG 4 target.
The Lighthouse Trust was established in 2001 to provide a continuum of quality care and counselling as well as to improve the quality of life of people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, including the terminally ill, in Lilongwe.
