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COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (02 March 2021)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (02 March 2021) 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-02-march-2021/?in...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 132 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Consultation on STD Interventions for Preventing HIV: What is the evidence?

The Consultation was called in response to recent resraech findings in sexually transmitted disease (STD) treatment and its effects on the tranmission of Immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Consultationon%20STD%20Interventions%20for...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 131 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Annual Progress Report 2019

The document titled Africa CDC Annual Progress Report 2019 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, W...

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cdc-annual-progress-report-2019/?ind=1597170527560&filename=15...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 177 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Annual Progress Report 2020

https://africacdc.org/download/annual-progress-report-2020/?ind=1612085610633&filename=Africa CDC An...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 14 hours ago 133 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Building a Strong and Interoperable Digital Health Information System for Uganda

Uganda launched its National eHealth Policy and Strategy in May 2018.1 Leadership and governance, workforce development, enterprise architecture, health information systems integration, and interoperability are the strategy��s key areas of implementation. Most important, the strategy calls for ��har...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Ineroperability%20report%202018.pdf
Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 Minutes ago 157 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Childrens Health Status in Uganda

This paper studies trends and determinants of children's standardized heights, a good overall measure of children's health status, in Uganda over the 1990s. During this period, Uganda made impressive strides in economic growth and poverty reduction (Appleton, 2001). However, there is concern that im...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Children%27s%20health%20status%20in%20Ugan...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 hours ago 156 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Advisory on Disinfection Cards

Background There has been increasing use of body worn labels or tags, impregnated with chemical disinfectants, and worn on a lanyard or clipped to clothing, with the purpose of protecting against SARS-COV-2 virus. These are marketed as air purifier capable of removing viruses, bacteria and smog and...

https://africacdc.org/download/advisory-on-disinfection-cards/?ind=1613421790004&filename=Advisory o...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 128 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

How Joint Medical Stores cut its distribution costs

Door-to-door delivery services: How Joint Medical Stores cut its distribution costs

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/JMS%20success%20story%20to%20print.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Supply Chain Management
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 165 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

World Malaria Report 2019

The report also tracks a set of indicators outlined in the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) advocacy plan, Action and investment to defeat malaria 2016-2030 (AIM) (2) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (3) - a set of interconnected global goals seen as a plan of action for people, the planet and pr...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/World%20Malaria%20Report%202019.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 171 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Health Accounts FY 2008/09 and FY 2009/10

Sustainable and equitable Health Financing systems play a critical role in improving health outcomes. However such policies must be built on foundation of sound evidence and analyses. The National Health Accounts (NHA) is a tool that helps countries to clearly visualize the flow and use of funds thr...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Health%20accounts%20Report%2020...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 195 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Monitoring emergency obstetric care: A handbook

The handbook provides a description of each indicator and how it is constructed and how it can be used; the minimum and/or maximum acceptable level (if appropriate); the background of the indicator; data collection and analysis; interpretation and presentation of the indicator; and suggestions for s...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/obstetric_monitoring.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 144 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Exploring health workforce inequalities Case studies from three countries

Investment in health systems so that they are able to extend coverage of health services to the world��s poor populations is increasingly recognized as an important contributor to saving lives, reducing poverty, spurring economic development and promoting global security (Commission on Macroeconomic...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Exploring%20health%20workforce%20inequalit...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 143 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Test to Treat Guidelines for African Union Member States

As of early 2022, there are increasingly a broad array of therapeutics available to prevent the serious consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infections. Test to Treat is a concept of facilitating expedited access to treatment by allowing patients to easily receive both COVID-19 testing and rapid access to ava...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-test-to-treat-guidelines-for-african-union-member-states/?in...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 48 Minutes ago 212 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Married adolescents : No place of safety.

This publication is about the negative effect of early marriages on adolescents.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Married%20Adolescents.%20No%20place%20of%2...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Adolescent Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 152 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Community HIV Counselling and Testing A Handbook on Participatory Needs Assessment

Community HIV Counselling and Testing (COHCT) is an approach that utilises existing community competencies in dealing with HIV/AIDS in general, and HIV counselling and testing in particular. The COHCT concept is premised on the knowledge that HIV counselling and testing is an entry point into HIV pr...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Community%20HIV%20Counselling%20and%20Test...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 157 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

A Brief Guide to iHRIS Train

The education and training of a health workforce contributes to the quality of services they provide their communities. Many countries lack information about health worker training, pre-service and in-service, making it difficult to track, plan, and manage training and deployment for the health work...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/HRIS_Train_Brief.pdf
Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 170 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Malaria weekly Status report - Week 26, 23RD-26TH May 2021

The reporting rate decreased from 72.2% in this week to 72.9% in last week. A total of 156,300 malaria confirmed cases were reported, a decrease by 5.2% from 164,913 in the previous week. Test positivity rate this week was 50.1% compared to 49.8% last week. The highest Test positivity rates were rep...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Malaria%20weekly%20status%20report%20Week%...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 145 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Strategic Response Plan West Africa Ebola Outbreak 2015

In August 2014, WHO drafted the Ebola Response Roadmap to set out the core strategy for stopping this unprecedented outbreak and to provide the basis for a significantly increased response. This was the basis for the UN system��s Overview of Needs and Requirements (ONR) and STEPP Strategy that follo...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/WHO%20Stratigic%20response%20plan%20west%2...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 Minute ago 204 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Disabled Village Children A guide for community health workers, rehabilitation workers, and families

This book has been a cooperative effort. Many persons have contributed in different ways. Some have helped to write or rewrite different sections; some have criticized early drafts; some have used it in their programs and sent us feedback; some have sent original ideas or technologies that we have t...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Disabled%20Village%20Children%202003.pdf
Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Disability and Rehabilitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 14 hours ago 167 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Prevention and Control of Cholera: Operational Guidelines for the National and District Health Workers & Planners.

Cholera is preventable and treatable acute diarrhoeal disease caused by infection of the intestine with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, either serogroup O1 or O139. Cholera is usually transmitted through consumption of water or food contaminated by faeces bearing the cholera organism.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Final%20Cholera%20Guidelines%202017.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 163 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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