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Care of mother and baby at the health Centre: a practical guide

The purpose of this report is to define the functions, tasks and skills needed for the comprehensive care of the mother and baby, covering the preconceptual, prenatal,intranatal and post natal periods which can be provided at the health centre and in the community.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 148 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National health facility master facility list 2018

This Health Facility Master List is a complete listing of both public and private health facilities in the country. There are 6,937 health facilities and each are established under unique administrative units i.e. Region, district, health sub-district, sub-county etc. The need to uniquely identify...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health system resilience
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 231 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Global vector control response 2017-2030

Vector-borne diseases pose a major threat to the health of societies around the world. They are caused by parasites, viruses and bacteria transmitted to humans by mosquitoes, sandflies, triatomine bugs, blackflies, ticks, tsetse flies, mites, snails and lice.1 The major global vector-borne diseases...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 219 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 141: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

As of 6 p.m. East African Time (EAT) 27 September 2022, a total of 12,068,974 COVID-19 cases and 255,748 deaths (CFR: 2.1%) have been reported by the 55 African Union (AU) Member States (MS). This represents 2% of all cases and 4% of all deaths reported globally. Forty (73%) AU MS are reporting CFRs...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 174 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

State of World Population 2019

These two events��the launch of the first United Nations agency dedicated to addressing population growth and the reproductive health needs of the world��s people, and the declaration of a global commitment to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights��have fundamentally shaped the live...

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Theme: Data Analytics
Sub Theme: Demographics
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 10 hours ago 196 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Presidents Malaria Initiative Fifth Annual Report to Congress April 2011

Over the past five years, substantial reductions have been recorded in mortality in children under five years of age, buttressed by improvements in malaria-specific indicators in all President��s Malaria Initiative (PMI)-supported countries where baseline and follow-up nationwide household surveys w...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 159 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 87: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

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...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 20 hours ago 153 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 67: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 67: 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...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 148 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Model List of Essential Medicines 2013

The core list presents a list of minimum medicine needs for a basic health��care system, listing the most efficacious, safe and cost��effective medicines for priority conditions. Priority conditions are selected on the basis of current and estimated future public health relevance, and potential for...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 147 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Web-Based ARV Ordering and Reporting System (WAOS) Report Period: June-July 2019

The web-based ARV Ordering and Reporting System (WAOS) is the official Ministry of Health (MoH) ARV ordering and reporting system hosted within the District Health Information Software (DHIS2). Since 2013, the Ministry of Health uses the system to support health facilities to order for and report on...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 days ago 151 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Malaria weekly status, week 45, 2019

Reporting rate this week was 77% which is low compared to the previous week (78.5% ) There were over 967 more malaria cases this week (189,661)com-pared to the previous week(188,694).This week,33 malaria deaths were reported. This is low compared to the previous week (43 malaria death). Hoima ,Nebbi...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 161 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Consolidated Guidelines on use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating and Preventing HIV Infection.

WHO guidelines on the use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection provide a public health approach for scaling up HIV care and treatment programmes and focus on simplified, harmonized and effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens for use in resource-limited sett...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 159 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Oral Antivirals in Africa: Unlocking Value and Potential

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...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 167 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Routine Management of Third Stage of labor

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 174 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence 998

The thirty-seventh meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from 16 to 20 November 2015. Mr Cornelis de Joncheere, Director, WHO Department of Essential Medicines and Health Products (EMP), opened the meeting. He welcomed all participants on beh...

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Theme: Prevention
Sub Theme: Pharmaceuticals and Drugs
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 175 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Cameroon

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...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 146 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Malaria Bulletin - week 31

The malaria weekly bulletin�for Epi week�31�(1st August - 7th August 2022).

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 166 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (27 October 2021)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (27 October 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, No...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 158 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Levels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2019

Tremendous progress in child survival has been made over the past two decades. The total number of deaths among children and young adolescents under 15 years of age dropped by 56 per cent from 14.2 (14.0, 14.5)1 million in 1990 to 6.2 (6.0, 6.7) million in 2018. Still, one child or young adolescent...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 144 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Human Development Report 2007/2008

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. We are faced now with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late��We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her pa...

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Theme: Workforce Development
Sub Theme: Human Resource Development
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 146 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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