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Outbreak Brief 35: COVID-19 Pandemic 15 September 2020

As of 9am East African Time (EAT) 15 September 2020, a total of 1,359,724 COVID-19 cases and 32,795 deaths (CFR: 2.4%) have been reported in 55 African countries. This is 5% of all cases reported globally. Since the last brief, 53,567 new COVID-19 cases have been reported, which is no change from th...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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Health sector ministerial policy statement for FY 2016/17

This ministerial statement is about the vote functions of ministry of health. A vote function is a set of programmes, projects and local government grants, defining the roles and responsibilities of a vote / institution and contributing towards the attainment of vote and overoll objectives.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 136 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin Week 7: 10 -16 February 2020

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. Corona Virus Disease 2...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 158 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

27th National Health Sector Joint Review Mission Aide Memoire

The 27th Health Sector JRM was organized by the MoH in collaboration with Health Development Partners (HDPs), Civil Society (CSOs) and the Private sector. The theme of the JRM was ��Strengthening Emergency and Critical Care Services as a Catalyst to Improving Quality of Care Uganda��. The key note...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 180 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 116: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 116: 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...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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Outbreak Brief 33: COVID-19 Pandemic 1 September 2020

The document titled Outbreak Brief 33: COVID-19 Pandemic – 1 September 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, S...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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Malaria weekly Status report Uganda Week 8 18th to24th Feb 2019

Reporting rate this week (87.8%) represents an about 10 percentage point increase from the previous week, 2019W7 (78%) There was a 6% increase reported malaria cases (100,336 in W6 vs. 106,503 this week. Key to note in this regard are net increases in Gomba, Butambala and Kyotera Districts which had...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 154 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (28 July 2020)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (28 July 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, North...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 150 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

An AIDS Free Uganda, My Responsibility : National HIV/AIDs priority action plan 2015/16- 2017/18.

The National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan 2015/2016 - 2019/2020 (NSP) was developed to guide implementation of the multi-sectoral response. It provides strategic actions aimed to address the gaps and challenges identified in the Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan 2011/2...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 158 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Atlas of headache disorders and resources in the world 2011

Headache disorders are among the most common disorders of the nervous system, causing substantial ill-health and disability in populations throughout the world. Despite this, they are underestimated in scope and scale, and there is little recognition of their public-health impact. It is not known ho...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Non-communicable diseases and risk factors
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 6 hours ago 153 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

4th National Health Care Quality Improvement Conference 29-31 August 2017

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has long prioritised assuring and improving quality of care for all people in Uganda. In an effort to continuously improve quality of service delivery and health outcomes across the country, the Ministry of Health wanted to develop a platform for all practitioners, imple...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 189 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

HPV Vaccine Communication Special considerations for a unique vaccine 2016 update

This guide presents communication guidance for countries introducing human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine at the national or sub-national levels. HPV vaccination is a key strategy for comprehensive cervical cancer control and prevention. By the end of 2015, more than 65 countries introduced HPV vaccin...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 20 hours ago 177 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Gender, women and primary health care renewal a discussion paper

The goal of equality between women and men is a basic principle of the United Nations (UN), which is set out in the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations. This commitment to promote gender equality and women��s empowerment was reaffi rmed in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...

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Theme: Emergency Preparedness
Sub Theme: Primary Health Care
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 141 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Interagency List of Essential Medicines for Reproductive Health 2006

The Interagency List of Essential Medicines for Reproductive Health is first presented in the format used in previous reproductive health lists - by clinical groups, with certain medicines repeated in different groups. Relevant standard treatment guidelines developed by the WHO Department of Reprodu...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 152 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Records And Archives Act,2001

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Theme: Health Policy and Governance
Sub Theme: Leadership, Governance, and Management
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 11, 13th - 19th March, 2017

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...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
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Global status report on road safety 2018

The Global status report on road safety 2018, launched by WHO in December 2018, highlights that the number of annual road traffic deaths has reached 1.35 million. Road traffic injuries are now the leading killer of people aged 5-29 years. The burden is disproportionately borne by pedestrians, cyclis...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Disability and Rehabilitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 176 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 24, 13th - 19th June, 2016

In week 24 of 2016, all 112 districts reported with an average reporting rate of 82.3% which is a more than 20% increase in reporting rate compared to the same week in 2015. An overall of 19.6% of the districts had 100% of all their health facilities reporting; 23 districts (21%) had all their healt...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
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Consolidated Guidelines on use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating and Preventing HIV Infection.

WHO guidelines on the use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection provide a public health approach for scaling up HIV care and treatment programmes and focus on simplified, harmonized and effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens for use in resource-limited sett...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
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Uganda Bureau of Statistics, 2015 Statistical Abstract

The Statistical Abstract is an annual publication compiled by Uganda Bureau of Statistics, which provides the statistical summary on various socio-economic indicators for Uganda. Some figures in this edition may vary from those in the earlier editions due to the updates. Note that most of the 2014...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 2 hours ago 162 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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