It has been 12 years since world leaders committed to Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4), which sets out to reduce the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.
In week 16 2016 all the 112 districts reported with an average reporting rate of 77%. 12 (11%) districts had 100% all of their health facilities reporting and 52% of the districts achieved the national target reporting rate of at least 80%. No district had less than a third of their facilities repor...
Agriculture is and will, in the medium term, remain central to Uganda��s economic growth and poverty reduction. It employs nearly 80% of the population1, contributes approximately 25% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and generates 40% of the country��s exports.
The document titled The Use of Pulse Oximeter by Public & Healthcare Providers in the Community for Suspected and Confirmed COVID-19 Cases offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health chall...
Anemia is a major public health problem worldwide. It affects mainly preschool children and pregnant women in low-income countries. At the global level, anemia prevalence is over 30%. In sub-Saharan Africa, anemia prevalence levels are not well documented due to inadequate and insufficient technique...
The proportion of health facilities that reported this week was 81.1% reflecting a 2.6% decrease in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2016. Only 12.9% (15/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 62.1% (72/116) of the districts achieved the national target of 8...
The strong links between socio-economic factors or public policies and health were documented in the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health report. Yet even when health and health equity are seen as important markers of development, expressing the benefits of soc...
The Global Nutrition Report 2015 reminds us of the paramount importance of nutrition to human well-being and productivity. The underlying message of the report is that, unless governments, donors, and stakeholders commit to and make themselves accountable for improved nutrition in our societies, ach...
Village Health Teams are community health workers and volunteers, who serve their communities and carry out health promotion and social mobilisation activities. They also carry out a range of health interventions across the spectrum of health, water and sanitation, disease surveillance and they also...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 82: 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...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 78: 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...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (13 April 2022) 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,...
The workshop to review the implementation of the Ministry of Health (MoH) work plan for the first and second quarters for 2018/19 financial year will take take place from 2nd to 3rd April 2019 at Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala. The main objective of the workshop is to conduct a performance review of...
The modular format of the curriculum allows learners to acquire job specific skills and knowledge (competences) module by module. In principle, and following the philosophy of Competence-Based Education and Training (CBET), the modules can be used as a guide for learning in a training centre or at t...
Although Uganda has reported a reduction in the mortality rates of children under five years of age (under-five)��from 175 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 90 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2011��child mortality and morbidity rates remain unacceptably high.1 Pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria...
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...
The document titled Africa Mask Week 23-30 November 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, Southern Africa, Wes...
This publication is about the malaria case statistics of Uganda in the 19th week of 2018.
The Ministry of Health hereby presents the Statistical Abstract, 2002. The Health Management Information System (HMIS) and Morbidity and Mortality surveys by the Resource Center of the Ministry of Health and partner agencies yield a wide range of health and Health related statistics. These help to m...
The declining power of governments to address society��s big problems brings the conversation on to wealth inequality, the issue that in one shape or another really drives most of the risks facing the world today. Last year, on these pages of The Wealth Report, our keynote interviewee, Lynn Forester...
