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Child Poverty and Deprivation in Uganda

With 57% of our population below the age of 18, Uganda is a young country and there is no doubting that our future lies with our children. In 2040, when our national Vision is to be a middle income country, children being born now will be the productive engine of our economy. The Child Poverty Repor...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Children%27s%20health%20status%20in%20Ugan...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
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Digital Health Enterprise Architecture, Standards and Knowledge Products

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...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/DH_Artefacts_Guide_13-04-2023.pdf
Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 19 hours ago 242 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Policy Brief on Enhancement of Coordination in the Uganda Public Service

This policy brief provides information on enhancement of coordination for effective and efficient implementation of public policies aimed at transformation of the lives of citizens. It is to improve horizontal and vertical partnership/ collaboration for coherent implementation of public policies. It...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Enhancement%20of%20Coordination.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 20 hours ago 182 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Girls, HIV/AIDS and Education

At the centre of an ever-strengthening HIV/AIDS storm, young people aged 15 to 24 now make up more than one quarter of the 38 million people living with the disease. More than half of the 5 million new infections in 2003 were among people under the age of 25. The majority of these new infections wer...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Girls%20HIV%20AIDS%20and%20education.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 137 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (08 December 2021)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (08 December 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, N...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-08-december-2021/...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 159 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National statistical metadata dictionary.

Metadata is a description of data (information about information). The primary role of metadata is to facilitate appropriate interpretation of statistics by both users and producers of data in the NSS and information sharing. The national Metadata dictionary has been revised to include the missing i...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Printed%20Second%20Edition%20of%20the%20Na...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 18 hours ago 192 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Malaria Control Program

Malaria has been the leading cause of sickness and death in Uganda, claiming over 150 lives daily.�However efforts by Government in partnership with donors from the international community to combat the disease through the increased access and use of Long Lasting Insecticide Nets (LLIN) among the po...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/LLIN%20News%20letter%20final%20March%20201...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 24 hours ago 198 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 34: COVID-19 Pandemic 8 September 2020

The document titled Outbreak Brief 34: COVID-19 Pandemic – 8 September 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, Northern Africa, S...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-34-covid-19-pandemic-8-september-2020/?ind=15997414926...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 14 hours ago 170 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 173 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The use of Rapid Syphilis Tests

Syphilis is a curable infection caused by a bacterium called Treponema pallidum. This infection is sexually transmitted, and can also be passed on from a mother to her fetus during pregnancy. As a cause of genital ulcer disease, syphilis has been associated with an increased risk of HIV transmission...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20use%20of%20Rapid%20Syphilis%20Tests....
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 20 hours ago 177 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 26 Minutes ago 159 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Towards tuberculosis elimination: an action framework for low-incidence countries

This Framework offers a coherent approach for eliminating tuberculosis (TB) in low-incidence countries. It is designed to guide national policy-makers and those responsible for technical aspects of the national TB response in accelerating efforts towards elimination. The document will also be inform...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Towards%20TB%20elimination.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 174 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (8 June 2022)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (8 June 2022) 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-8-june-2022/?ind=...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 19 hours ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

IPC | Legal Framework, Background and Annotations

As such, healthcare facilities play a key role in effective preparedness and response. By ensuring IPC standards are implemented appropriately, healthcare facilities can provide safe services not only on a daily basis but also when there is a surge in healthcare need.

https://africacdc.org/download/infection-prevention-and-control-ipc-legal-framework-background-and-a...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Infection Prevention
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 14 hours ago 164 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization 999

The WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization met in Geneva from 12 to 16 October 2015. The meeting was opened by Mr Kees De Joncheere,Director of the Department of Essential Medicines and Health Products (EMP).

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Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Medical Products and Health Technology
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 182 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2012

This year��s report on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) highlights several milestones. The target of reducing extreme poverty by half has been reached five years ahead of the 2015 deadline, as has the target of halving the proportion of people who lack dependable access to im...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Millenium%20Development%20Goals%20Report%2...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 18 hours ago 183 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidelines for On-Boarding and Engagement of Health Workers November, 2017

These guidelines are developed to support the onboarding process of health workers, promote their levels of engagement and improve the rate of retention. This is against the background that the Ministry of Health planned to conduct massive recruitment at all levels of health service delivery. Curren...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Guidelines%20for%20On-Boarding%20and%20Eng...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 6 days ago 136 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Guideline and systematic review on hand hygiene and the use of chlorine in the context of Ebola

"Ebola threatens everything that makes us human," says Bruce Aylward of World Health Organisation. With calm measure, Bruce walks us through how the Ebola epidemic exploded.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 145 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Health sector ministerial policy statement FY 2012/ 2013.

This policy statement is about the vote functions of Ministry of health.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women and Adolescent Girls Living With HIV

The number of cases of HIV and AIDS among women and adolescent girls in Brazil has been gradually increasing since the epidemic began. In the period from 1980 to June 2007, were identified 314,000 cases of AIDS among males and 160,000 among females1.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 days ago 142 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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