Anthrax essentially ceased to be regarded as a disease of major health or economic importance after the enormous successes of Max Sterne��s veterinary vaccine developed in the 1930s, and subsequent analogs in the former Soviet Union, in dramatically reducing the incidence of the disease in livestock...
As of 9 am EAT 21 July 2020, a total of 736,288 COVID-19 cases and 15,418 deaths (CFR: 2.1%) have been reported in 54 African countries. This is 5% of all cases reported globally. Since the last brief, 125,481 new COVID-19 cases have been reported, which is an increase of 21% compared to the 14 July...
The goal of this tuberculosis (TB) infection control guidelines is to guide management staff, including health care workers, congregate settings managers and household heads to minimize the risk of TB transmission at Ugandan facilities in particular and the whole country in general. The current nati...
The second issue of the Lab Digest is here! This issue takes you through the evolution of the Central Public Health Laboratory from a one room provisional space to the magnificent home in Butabika. Did you know that this great institution/ department started off with one specialist? Catch this and m...
We are pleased to share our 3rd weekly epidemiological bulletin for the year 2021. 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 respondi...
Managment of Puerperperal Sepsis/Pyrexia
In response, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), supported by its regional and global partners, in collaboration with AU Member States, in 2019 launched the Regional Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiative (BBI). The goal of the BBI is to strengthen the biosafety and bio...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 138: 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...
Currently, 14 African nations have vaccinated at least 70 percent of their eligible populations with the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the World Health Organization. Tanzania and São Tomé and Príncipe have fully vaccinated their populations while Botswana, Mauritius, Seychelles, and Somalia have va...
Uganda like many of the developing countries is faced by a number of human resource challenges. An analysis of the Human Resources for Health (HRH) situation reveals a crisis in the country characterized by a critical shortage of health workers with nearly 50% of the districts operating below 50% of...
This document is an evidence-based policy for the implementation of sound tuberculosis (TB) infection control by all stakeholders. TB infection control is a combination of measures aimed at minimizing the risk of TB transmission within populations. The foundation of infection control is early and ra...
The document titled Africa CDC Annual Report 2017 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, Western Africa, providing valuable guida...
Surgical Care at the District Hospital provides a comprehensive guide to surgical procedures that are commonly performed at the district hospital. It is intentionally limited to emergency and very common problems and is not designed as a major textbook of surgery. The manual is presented in seven pa...
Vector control is a vital component of malaria prevention, control and elimination strategies because it can be highly effective in providing personal protection and/or reducing disease transmission. This 1st edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines for malaria vector control has be...
This weekly report is a statistical representation of the malaria events that happened in the country during the week of�18th Dec to 24th Dec 2023.
During the initial emergency response phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, testing efforts concentrated on identifying individuals infected with SARS-COV-2 for timely isolation, contact tracing and clinical care to break the chain of transmission and minimize morbidity and mortality.The purpose of this r...
The reporting rate increased to 75.2% in this week from 73.2% in last week. A total of 157,735 malaria confirmed cases were reported, decreased by 2.1% in the previous week.Test positivity rate this week was 51.7% compared to 52.3% last week. The highest Test positivity rates were reported in Nabila...
The present report provides a demographic perspective on how the world has changed over the past 20 years. The world has witnessed many profound social, economic and political changes since the International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo in 1994. Few factors will shape the...
Uganda, for the period 2010-2020, recorded a tremendous improvement in the fight against the HIV and AIDS epidemic. It is among the (08) countries in the world that had fully achieved the 90-90-90 targets by the end of 2020, the others being Eswatin, Switzerland, Rwanda, Qatar, Botswana, Slovenia an...
This book, which has been appropriately titled Essential Maternal & Neonatal Care Clinical Guidelines for Uganda, is expected to be a reinforcement of the Safe Motherhood Life Saving Skills (LSS) program, the Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postnatal Care (PCPNC), Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) Tr...
