Nutrition Program Report - Monthly Health Facility, May 2023

This document is a statistical report highlighting the performance of the key nutrition program indicators for the month of May 2023.

Ministry of Health Clients Charter 2021

The Ministry of Health (MoH) reviewed its Client Charter 2012/13 - 2014/15 in line with the long term international and national development goals and objectives as spelt out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Vision 2040, Second National Health Plan (NHP II), National Development Plan...

Uganda Health Workforce Study: Satisfaction and Intent to Stay Among Current Health Workers

This report summarises the results of a study of health worker satisfaction, working conditions and intent to continue working in the health sector in Uganda. The findings point to the importance of a number of factors that contribute to satisfaction and intent to stay, including differences by cadr...

Performance review of the implementation of the Ministry of Health work plan for the first and second quarters FY2021/22

The Semi-Annual Health Sector Performance review meetings highlight progress, challenges, lessons learnt and proposes a mechanism for improvement. The meeting focuses on the progress in the implementation of approved work plans and Budgets for FY 2021/22 and trends in performance for selected indica...

Ministerial Policy Statement Financial Year 2015/2016

The Govemment of Uganda continues to facilitate the attainment of a good standard of health for all the people in Uganda. The goal of the Health Sector is therefore to reduce morbidity and mortality as a contribution to poverty reduction as well as economic and social development of the people of Ug...

Malaria Quarterly Bulletin October - December, 2018

Welcome to the 27th issue of the Malaria quarterly bulletin, which focuses on the second quarter of 2019. The aim of this bulletin is to inform district, national, and global stake-holders on progress achieved and challenges encountered in malaria control and reduction in Uganda. Most importantly, i...

The importance of sexual and reproductive health and rights to prevent HIV in adolescent girls and young women in eastern and southern Africa

The AIDS epidemic continues to disproportionately affect sub-Saharan Africa, especially eastern and southern Africa (ESA). The ESA region has only 6.2% of the world��s population, but is home to half of the world��s people living with HIV (1). In 2015, the region accounted for 46% of the world��s ne...

WHO Model List of Essential Medicines 2013

The core list presents a list of minimum medicine needs for a basic health��care system, listing the most efficacious, safe and cost��effective medicines for priority conditions. Priority conditions are selected on the basis of current and estimated future public health relevance, and potential for...

Post COVID-19 Economic Recovery: Leveraging the Youth Population to Build Back Better

However, while the cautionary measures and strategies were effective in curbing the surge and flattening the curve of COVID-19 cases, they also presented new realities that left millions of young people at a disadvantage. With the introduction of curfews, lockdowns, and work-from-home measures, many...

The National Immunisation Strategy (NIS) 2024-2028

The National Immunisation Strategy (NIS) replaces the comprehensive Multi-Year Plan (cMYP) as a country-specific guiding tool for the planning, coordination and implementation of immunisation activities. The strategy clearly defines what is to be achieved in the next five years, in terms of the anti...

Malaria Weekly Status report Week 13, 2019

Reporting rate this week (85,4%) represents an almost 20% improvement in reporting rate from the pre-vious week, 2019W12 (65.9%) There were almost 20,000 malaria cases more this week (117,040) ) compared to 97,077 reported the previous week. While there may be a real increase in the number of malari...

Mental Health Promotion Case Studies from Countries

Overall, the collection gives a glimpse of the range of mental health promotion programmes, some evidence based and others less so. This publication also demonstrates the close collaboration between the World Federation for Mental Health and the World Health Organization, who continue to work in a s...

Policy Brief on Enhancing the Capacity of Policy Analyst Cadre in Carrying out Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA)

From the reviews of Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) submissions to Cabinet, a number of gaps were identified. The gaps included; poor problem identification, poor options analysis and poor structuring of some reports which had resulted into selection of inefficient, ineffective and irrelevant opt...

Knowledge, Attitudes And Practices On Malaria Prevention And Control In Uganda

A clear understanding of the knowledge, attitudes and practices of a particular community can inform the design of Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) campaigns to influence acceptance and use of any malaria control measures. Research to clearly determine what interventions to carry out has not bee...

Outbreak Brief 14: COVID-19 Pandemic 21 April 2020

The document titled Outbreak Brief 14: COVID-19 Pandemic – 21 April 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, Northern Africa, Sout...

Client Satisfaction with Health Services in Uganda

This Citizens�� Report Card (CRC) provides perceptions of healthcare users on service accessibility, availability and quality at selected health facilities in the districts of Bushenyi and Lira. The CRC was prepared by Uganda National Health Consumers�� Organisation (UNHCO) and Coalition for Health...

Nutrition and HIV/AIDS

The coexistence of high rates of malnutrition and HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa creates an additional challenge for nutritionists. Providing adequate nutrition at community and individual levels, even in the absence of HIV/AIDS, remains a problem. The new challenge calls for the acceleration...

Report of the 1st Symposium on Teenage Pregnancy in Uganda

Every year, the ministry of Health (MoH) commemorates the Safe Motherhood week in October. The national commemoration this year (October 2013) was held in Apac district in Northern Uganda. As part of the events for the week, MoH and its partners held a symposium on the theme: ��Teenage pregnancy an...

Tunisia: a primary health care case study in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

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Cardiovascular disease prevention and control Translating evidence into action

Every year, an estimated 17 million people die of cardiovascular disease (CVD) (1). Three fourths of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. In addition, at least one third of the world population is currently at high risk of developing major cardiovascular events; an estimated 1.3 b...