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Grievance Redress Mechanism for Uganda COVID-19 Response and Emergency Preparedness Project -Additional Financing April 2022

A Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) is one of the key social safeguards and risk management instruments required to help the Ministry of Health (MoH) to reduce projects risk and provide communities with an avenue for expressing their concerns and obtaining due redress, A GRM will also promote a mutu...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
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Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Secondary and Tertiary Screening Wide

EVD Secondary and Tertiary Screening is used to carry out further assessment for potential symptoms of EVD and COVID-19, before accessing the health care facility.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
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The Tunisian Women Doctors Leading the Struggle Against COVID-19: Hope for the Rise of a New Ethical Culture

Tunisia, like the other countries of the Arab Maghreb, is especially vulnerable to the impact of the novel coronavirus both to their healthcare systems and economies. Still transforming since the fall of Zinedine Ben Ali’s dictatorship in 2011, the Tunisian health sector is still strick...

Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Workforce
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 204 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda Immunisation Act 2016

An Act to� provide for compulsory Immunisation of children, women of reproductive age and other target groups against immunisable diseases, to establish the Immunisation Fund and to provide for other incidental matters.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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First steps for managing an outbreak of acute diarrhea

This publication is basically about how the outbreak of acute diarrhoea can be handled.

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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The Status of Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council 2018

When modern medicine was introduced in Uganda by Dr Albert Cook in 1897,the colonial government enacted instruments to guide the profession by 1933. The profession has since undergone several acts. Currently council is being guided by UMDPC Act 1998.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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PROTECTING YOUNG PEOPLE FROM HIV AND AIDS: THE ROLE OF HEALTH SERVICES

This document summarizes the evidence for effective action, and encourages policy makers and programmers to turn concern and commitment into effective and sustainable action. It is based on an understanding that HIV infects people when they are young, but AIDS affects and kills people at an age when...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
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The state of the world's children 2009 : Maternal and Newborn Health.

The State of the World��s Children 2009 focuses on maternal and neonatal health and identifies the interventions and actions that must be scaled up to save lives.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 159 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidelines for Designation, Establishment and Upgrading of Health Units

These guidelines have been prepared by the Ministry of Health to enhance economy, efficiency and effectiveness in infrastructure development and harmonise it with other inputs to improve service delivery in the health sector. They are specifically aimed at providing criteria and procedures for desig...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Outbreak Brief 54: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 54: 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-54-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=161...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 144 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Epidemic Intelligence Weekly Report, July 2024

Geographic Focus: Reports could either focus on events affecting single country or multiple countries.Inclusion criteria: While Africa CDC continues to track all public health events on the continent, this report highlights only moderate to very high-risk events (with new updates in the reporting we...

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cdc-weekly-event-based-surveillance-report-july-2024/?ind=1722...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 10, 29th February - 6th March, 2016

In week 10 of 2016, all 112 (100%) districts reported. Average reporting rate was maintained at 74.4%. 10 districts had (100%) all of their health facilities reporting; 53 districts (47%) achieved the national target of 80% reporting. Only one (1) districts had less than 30% of the health facilities...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
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Public Spending on Health: A Closer Look at Global Trends

This report, which builds on the WHO report New Perspectives on Global Health Spending for Universal Health Coverage,(2) analyses the latest data for 2016 and identifies issues of global relevance. Global spending on health is on a transformation trajectory, with increasing domestic public funding a...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Public%20spending%20on%20health.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
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Humanitarian Action for Children 2015 Overview

The year 2014 was one of sharp contrasts for the world��s children - posing new challenges for UNICEF��s work to improve their lives and emphasizing the critical necessity of investing in heir resilience, before, during, and after emergencies. In November, we marked the 25th anniversary of the Conve...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
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National HIV Prevention Strategy

The Government of Uganda has identified HIV prevention as a priority in the National Development Plan (2010-15) and set a 40 percent target to reduce new HIV infections by 2015. Although HIV prevalence during the past decade has been stable around 6-7 percent among adults, the number of new HIV infe...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 6 days ago 193 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Communication Style Guide: Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

The Entitys and Institutions of the African Union play a key role in the implementation of the mandates of the AU and continental programmes and initiatives aimed at promoting Africa’s vision of sustainable and inclusive growth and development.Being constituent part of the larger body that makes up...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 163 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The selection and use of essential in vitro diagnostics 1022

The second meeting of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on In Vitro Diagnostics (SAGE IVD) was held on 18-22 March 2019 at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Collaborative framework for care and control of tuberculosis and diabetes

Diabetes triples the risk of developing tuberculosis (TB). Consequently, rates of TB are higher in people with diabetes than in the general population, and diabetes is a common comorbidity in people with TB. Diabetes can worsen the clinical course of TB, and TB can worsen glycaemic control in people...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Directive on Grievance Redress Mechanisms

1. A significant component of Africa CDC’s work is undertaken through projects implemented directly by Africa CDC or through Implementing, Partners. While the objectives of projects are aimed at producing positive impacts, they may also give rise to uncertainties, unintended consequences or action...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update 28 April 2020

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – 28 April 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, Northe...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-28-april-2020/?in...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 161 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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