The proportion of health facilities that reported during week 2 was 85% reflecting a 25.1% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2016. Only 18% (21/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 70% (81/116) of the districts achieved the national target of 80...
This Comprehensive Support Supervision (CSS) Strategy 2020 has been designed to step up efforts and redefine support supervision at all levels of health care in Uganda for a more efficient and effective use of available resources. The Ministry of Health��s (MoH) previous approach to support supervis...
This weekly 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,...
The WHO Global Ministerial Conference on Ending TB in the Sustainable Development Era: A Multisectoral Response aims to accelerate implementation of the WHO End TB Strategy - with immediate action addressing gaps in access to care and the multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) crisis - in order to reach th...
The Annual Health Sector Performance Report (AHSPR) highlights progress, challenges, and lessons learnt and proposes mechanisms for improvement. The report focuses on the progress in implementation of commitments in the Ministerial Policy Statement, overall sector performance against the targets se...
The overall goal of the Uganda NTD Control Program Sustainability Plan 2020-2025is to bring together other sectors on board to strengthen mechanisms that will enable the Ministry of Health to sustain NTD efforts and strengthen the health system to provide sustainable, accessible, equitable, and qual...
The purpose of this roll out plan document is to roll out the 15 year HRH Strategic Plan and align Human Resources for Health documents to ensure easy and implementation within manageable activities in a given period. It addresses a number of salient Human Resources for Health issues, identified thr...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (16 March 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, Nort...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 92: 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 A...
About the Project In 2023, 166 outbreaks and public health events were reported in Africa. This calls for a resilient laboratory systems for timely detection and reporting of current and future outbreaks. This project aims to scale up molecular diagnostic and genomic sequencing-based detection and c...
Guidance on PMTCT is provided regularly to countries by WHO.�Uganda launched the first PMTCT policy guidelines in 2002,following lessons learnt from the PMTCT pilot in 2000.�Main drug was sd NVP tab for mother in labour and baby within 72 hours after delivery,�AZT from 36 weeks of gestation, in labo...
This, the firstWorld report on violence and health, is an important part of WHO��s response to Resolution WHA49.25. It is aimed mainly at researchers and practitioners. The latter include health care workers, social workers, those involved in developing and implementing prevention programmes and ser...
So far, seven African countries have already surpassed the target of vaccinating at least 70 of the population eligible for Covid-19 Vaccination according to the WHO Liberia and Rwanda have fully vaccinated their eligible populations, while Mauritius and Botswana have vaccinated 94 percent Over 90 o...
The world has made substantial progress in reducing child mortality in the past several decades. The total number of under-five deaths dropped to 5.6 (5.4, 6.0)1 million in 2016 from 12.6 (12.4, 12.8) million in 1990 - 15,000 every day compared with 35,000 in 1990. Globally, the under-five mortality...
The document titled AFRICAN REGIONAL BIO-RISK MANAGEMENT (Certified Professionals 2023) 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, We...
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...
The Compact for Implementation of the Health Sector Development Plan (HSDP) 2015/16 - 2019/20 provides, as part of monitoring and evaluation, for the annual Joint Review Mission (JRM) so as to assess sector performance on the policies, strategies, plans and interventions, and capacity needs in line...
Government of Uganda (GoU) with financing support from of World Bank (The Bank) plans to improve reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health from implementation of the Uganda Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Improvement Project (RMNCAH Project). The Project Development Object...
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...
These guidelines provide guidance on definition of sexual harassment; applicable legal and policy frameworks; and outline strategies for prevention and response services and implementation mechanism for addressing sexual harassment in the health sector. The guidelines also provide detailed response...
