This study demonstrates the relevance of tobacco control in achieving each of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals. It outlines the occurrence of the high yet increasing prevalence of tobacco use in the developing world, and documents the negative impact that tobacco cultivation and...
The document titled Africa CDC: Establishing Integrated Surveillance and Laboratory Networks for Rapid Disease Detection and Response, Control, Prevention, and Clinical Care in Africa offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critic...
A healthy tooth is a living part of the body. It is connected by ��life-lines�� of blood and nerve to a person��s heart and brain. To separate the tooth from the body, or even to interrupt those ��life-lines��, means death to the tooth. It also means pain and injury to the body, to the person
The Clients Charter was introduced under the Public Service Reform Programme, as a tool to strengthen the demand side of accountability for service delivery. In this regard, the clients charter has been embranced in the health sector. This charter spells out the roles, responsibilities and commitme...
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a new virus that had not been previously identified in humans and therefore no population-level immunity exists. This virus belongs to the coronaviridae family grouped together in 1968 due to existence of crown-like appearances on t...
Executive summary The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–2022 had a significant impact on primary health care (PHC) in Tunisia. This case study examines PHC – known locally as basic health care (BHC) – in the context of the pandemic between March 2020 and August 2022, with a focus on prepar...
Executive summary
The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–2022 had a significant impact on primary health care (PHC) in Tunisia. This case study examines PHC – known locally as basic health care (BHC) – in the context of the pandemic between March 2020 and August 2022, with a focus on prepar...
We are pleased to share our 1st 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...
This Policy Brief builds on a growing body of evidence generated through the Africa CDC’s Health Economics and Financing Programme (HEP) to support and accelerate informed decision-making and policy responses across the African continent. This brief summarizes the latest evidence on the potential ro...
The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Cameroon 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, Norther...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 126: 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...
The Standardisation Guide presents several digital health (DH) artefacts including; digital health Standards, digital health Enterprise Architecture Framework, digital health Workforce Capacity Building Framework, and digital health Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (DH-ASK). The DH-ASK artefacts...
The State of Uganda Population Report development process is a result of many multi sectoral consultative meetings under the leadership of Population Secretariat. We therefore recognize the fundamental inputs of all stakeholders who participated in the production of this report. This year's report c...
The 2018 Local Government Performance Assessment (LG PA) Report is the second edition under the new Local Government Assessment framework. The assessment was conducted between September-October 2018 with involvement of the Local Government Performance Assessment Task force, Ministries, Departments a...
The burden of disease due to malaria in Uganda is unacceptably high and the resistance of the malaria parasites to Chloroquine (CQ) and Sulfadoxine/Pyrimethamine (SP) has aggravated the situation. Because of this, in May 2004, the Ministry of Health decided to change the malaria treatment policy fro...
The document titled Establishment of a Biobanking Network as a Sustainable Mechanism to Accelerate Development and Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests in Africa offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses crit...
A well functioning health information system is one that ensures the production, analysis, dissemination and use of reliable and timely health information by decision- makers at different levels of the health system, both on a regular basis and in emergencies. The Human Resource Information Systems...
This issue of the National Malaria Control Program newsletter is spiced up with a number of stories showing the LLIN 2017/2018 journey. Key among the stories is Nalweyiso��s story who envisages opening up a retail shop in her house as a result of savings from Malaria treatment. Nalweyiso is grateful...
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...
In the bit to improve healthcare service delivery in the country, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has focused its efforts on improving the management of its human resource i.e. Health Workers (HW). This is being achieved through the use of quality of Health Workforce data generated from the Human Resou...
As of 9 a.m. East African Time (EAT) 14 September 2021, a total of 8,052,110 COVID-19 cases and 204,025 deaths (CFR: 2.5%) have been reported in 55 African Union (AU) Member States. This represents 3.6% of all cases and 4.4% of all deaths reported globally. Twenty-three (42%) AU Member States are re...
