The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (23 June 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...
This is the 14th issue of the Uganda Ma-laria Quarterly Bulletin that focuses on the second quarter of 2016. The aim of this bulletin is to inform district, national, and global stake-holders on progress achieved and challenges encountered in malaria control and reduction in Uganda. Most importantly...
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...
Choléra Source : SitRep cholera, bulletins SIMR des États membres Durant la période de rapportage allant des semaines épidémiologiques (SE) 26 à 30 de 2023, 5 718 nouveaux cas (suspects et confirmés) de choléra dont 59 décès ont été notifiés ; portant le cumul de SE1 à SE30-2023 à 51 814 cas / 720 d...
The WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations met in Geneva from 14 to 18 October 2013. Dr M.-P. Kieny, Assistant Director-General of Health Systems and Innovation at the World Health Organization (WHO), welcomed participants on behalf of the Director-General. Dr Kieny t...
Until the outbreak of an exotic communicable disease or other dramatic event, the elaborate infrastructures and mechanisms that protect public health on a daily basis often go unnoticed and attract little media1 interest. In the midst of a public health emergency2 the situation becomes very differen...
Reducing maternal mortality by 75% is the Millennium Development Goal 5a. To reach this goal, countries need an accurate picture of the causes and levels of maternal deaths. However, efforts to document the progress in decreasing maternal mortality must make adjustments for inconsistencies in countr...
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Manifesto 2016 is the fifth one since 1996. The NRM is a mass organisation that is on track in implementing policies and programmes in all these manifestos. Each of these manifestos has a theme in tandem with the stages of the country��s progress.
The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Senegal 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 document titled Africa’s Leadership Role in the Development and Access to Potential COVID-19 Vaccine: Rapporteur’s Report for Day Two offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challe...
The purpose of this report is to inform the Ministry of Health and all stakeholders of the stock levels in the country as a tool that enables appropriate logistics decision making . This report highlights stock status, real challenges, bottlenecks but also recommends potential solutions to mitigate...
Diarrhoeal diseases are a leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality in developing countries, and an important cause of malnutrition. In 2001 an estimated 1.5 million below 5 years died from diarrhoea. On average, children below 3 years of age in developing countries experience three episode...
The document titled The Use of Pulse Oximeter by Public & Healthcare Providers in the Community for Suspected and Confirmed COVID-19 Cases offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health chall...
Uganda like many of the developing countries is faced by a number of human resource challenges. An analysis of the Human Resources for Health (HRH) situation reveals a crisis in the country characterized by a critical shortage of health workers with nearly 50% of the districts operating below 50% of...
In today��s world, gaps in wealth have grown shockingly wide. Billions of people linger at the bottom, denied their human rights and prospects for a better life. At the top, resources and privileges accrue at explosive rates, pushing the world ever further from the vision of equality embodied in the...
As the Covid-19 pandemic got under way, the world�had been reaching unprecedented heights on the�Human Development Index (HDI). People were, on�average, living healthier, wealthier and better lives�for longer than ever. But under the surface a growing�sense of insecurity had been taking root. An est...
The 2014-15 Uganda Malaria Indicator Survey (2014-15 UMIS) was implemented by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) of the Uganda Ministry of Health from December 2014 to January 2015. The funding for the UMIS was provided by the United States Agenc...
The Government of Uganda through Uganda AIDS Commission and with support from the national HIV/AIDS Partnership revised the National Strategic Plan (2007/08-2011/12) for HIV/AIDS and aligned it to the National Development Plan (NSP). This four-year NSP for HIV/AIDS is a national multi-sector tool fo...
This week sees a marginal decline in the number of malaria cases in the Acholi, West Nile and Busoga regions. However, there is a similar increase in malaria cases in the Lango, Central, Karamoja, Toro and Western regions. As NMCD, with support from NTF, there is need to further reduce the number of...
The 19th meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 8 to 12 April 2013. The report was approved by the Committee on 1 October 2013. The purpose of the meeting was to review and update the 17th WHO Model List of Essentia...
