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Malaria weekly Status week 29, 2020

Reporting rate this week was at 78.2%, a slight decline from78.7% in the previous week.This week, a total of 206,138 malaria cases were reported, an increase by 10% from the previous week.The following districts are experiencing malaria upsurges : Abim, Agago, Amudat, Bug-weri, Buyende, Isingiro, Ka...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
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Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Zimbabwe

The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Zimbabwe 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...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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Malaria weekly Status week 31, 2020

Reporting rate this week was 79.4%, a slight decline from 81% the previous week. This week, a total of 187,856 malaria cases were reported having declined by 15% from the previous week. Incidence this week was 4.5%, a decrease from 5.3% the previous week and 6.2% reported in the same week last year,...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
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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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COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update 3 March 2020)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – 3 March 2020) 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, We...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update/?ind=158434556366...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 52, 26th December - 1st January, 2017

During week 52, the proportion of health facilities that reported was 81% reflecting a 28.8% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2015. Only 14.7% (17/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 63.8% (74/116) of the districts achieved the national target...

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Laboratory Equipment Management, A Guidance to African Union Member States

In recent years, African countries have made great advances in capacity for laboratory testing for clinical use, surveillance and public health emergency management, and for research and development through substantial investments in infrastructure, including the deployment of large numbers of labor...

https://africacdc.org/download/laboratory-equipment-management-a-guidance-to-african-union-member-st...
Theme: Detection
Sub Theme: Laboratory Systems and Network
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Village Health Team Participants Manual for Village Health Team Members

In each home, parents and guardians are very important because it is the family that puts into practice the daily care actions that are needed to be healthy and stay healthy. These actions include:�Wash hands with soap before eating and after using the latrine

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health system resilience
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Guidance on administration of COVID-19 vaccine boosters in Africa

What is the current status of COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in Africa? By the 31st December 2021, only seven (13%) of 55 Africa Union (AU) Member States had reached the year end 40% population coverage goal (Botswana, Cape Verde, Mauritius, Morocco, Rwanda, Seychelles and Tunisia), and currently on...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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World Health Statistics 2016

This report brings together the most recent data on the proposed health and selected health-related SDG indicators - to assess the current situation and describe crucial data gaps. In the current absence of official goal-level indicators, summary measures of health such as (healthy) life expectancy...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 1 day ago 137 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The regulatory and certification framework for institutions handling high risk pathogens in the Africa Region

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...

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Rapid Guidance on the Decommissioning of Ebola Care Facilities

The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed this rapid guidance document in close collaboration�with the Governments of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention�(CDC), Atlanta, USA; the Infection Control Africa Network (ICAN); and the United Nations Chil...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
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Statement on the use of Dexamethasone for severely ill COVID-19 Patients

Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is aware of the media releases of the preliminary results of a large randomized clinical trial conducted in the United Kingdom, which included dexamethasone, a corticosteroid, as one of the drugs used for the treatment of COVID-19 patien...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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Current and planned vaccine manufacturing in Africa: Results from a joint assessment by Africa CDC, CHAI, and PATH

We engaged 19 manufacturers in total, including all manufacturers with commercial scale production capacity as well as a number of early-stage projects. We also engaged with a variety of originator companies outside of Africa interested in technology transfers to African vaccine manufacturers to und...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Vaccine Manufacturing
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The Health Digest

Health Rights (SRHR) for adolescents and the youth. The articles here present a portrait of health facilities that offer youth-friendly services, how they do it, and how much youth enjoy or hate them.There is no doubt that the Uganda Government through the Ministry of health is trying to enhance acc...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
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National Environmental Health policy

This Policy� establishes the enviromental health priorities of the Government of Uganda and provides a frame work for the development of services and programmes at national and local government levels.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Environmental Health and Sanitation
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Strategic Plan for Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council 2016/17 - 2021/22 July

This Strategic Plan sets out UMDPC��s strategic direction for the next five years (2016/17-2021/22). It gives the priorities of the Council and how these will be achieved, as well as provides the basis for efficient and effective utilisation of the human, physical and financial resources. The Strat...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Guidelines for Health Care Equipment Donations

Many developing countries are increasingly dependent on donor assistance to meet the equipment needs of their health care systems. However, because not all important parameters are taken into consideration, donations sometimes do not achieve their intended objectives, and could even constitute an ad...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Infrastructure
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Medical waste management

The manual includes data sheets in the Annex. It deals with wastes that are created in the course of surgical, medical, laboratory and radiological activities with the exception of specialties such as oncology, nuclear medicine or prosthetic/ orthotic workshops. It deals mainly with so-called hazard...

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Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Medical Products and Health Technology
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The Kampala City Act 2010

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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