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Nutrition Guidance for the general Population in the context of COVID-19 in Uganda

The current Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has greatly disrupted the ability to produce, process, distribute, obtain and consume healthy and nutritious foods by families and individuals, leading to significant changes in food prices, availability, access, and affordability. Such rapid chan...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 126 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Malaria weekly Status report - Week 26, 23RD-26TH May 2021

The reporting rate decreased from 72.2% in this week to 72.9% in last week. A total of 156,300 malaria confirmed cases were reported, a decrease by 5.2% from 164,913 in the previous week. Test positivity rate this week was 50.1% compared to 49.8% last week. The highest Test positivity rates were rep...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Use of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests

Malaria rapid diagnostic tests, sometimes called ��dipsticks�� or ��malaria rapid diagnostic devices�� (MRDDs), detect specific antigens (proteins) produced by malaria parasites. These antigens are present in the blood of infected or recently infected people. The RDT signifies their presence by a co...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 14 hours ago 137 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Management of Abnormal Vaginal Discharge in Pregnancy

For Pregnant women with foul smelling sero-sanguinious (mixture of blood and puss) discharge, suspect cancer of the cervix and perform vaginal speculum examination The couple should use a condom or abstain from sexual intercourse during the course of treatment.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 121 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda: Assessing Progress in Family Planning, 2021

The 2021 Progress Estimates on Family Planning Commitments and National Goals estimates were derived; In order to have an accurate representation of FP progress. The current data have been incorporated with the data that has been generated over the last few years in order to monitor the annual progr...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Country%20Progress%20Brief%20on%20Family%2...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 122 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Model List of Essential Medicines 2011

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: 2 days ago 128 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 69: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 69: 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-69-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=162...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 141 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly malaria status - Uganda week2, 2019.

This publication is about the malaria case statistics of Uganda in the 2nd week of 2019.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 122 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in South Africa

The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in South Africa 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, Nor...

https://africacdc.org/download/finding-the-balance-public-health-and-social-measures-in-south-africa...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 124 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Policy Brief on Improving Monitoring and Evaluation of Implementation of Cabinet Decisions

Cabinet Decisions are key mechanisms through which Government directs Ministries to implement policy positions. However, it has been established that they are not subjected to structured and systematic quality assurance to ascertain their relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and achievement of the d...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/IMPROVING%20MONITORING%20AND%20EVALUATION%...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 155 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Anti-Retroviral Therapy Supervision Performance and Recognition Strategy (ART SPARS) Supervision tool Form Version 2.0 | 20181112

Anti-Retroviral Therapy Supervision Performance and Recognition Strategy (ART SPARS) Supervision tool Form Version 2.0 | 20181112. The tool contains ��Guidelines on how to use the Anti-Retroviral Therapy SPARS Supervision tool��

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/ART%20SPARS%20Supervision%20Data%20collect...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 143 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Global wealth report 2014

The Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of information on global household wealth. Since 2010, we have collaborated with Professors Anthony Shorrocks and Jim Davies, recognized authorities on this topic, and the principal authors of ��Personal Wea...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Global%20Wealth%20Report%202014.pdf
Theme: Data Analytics
Sub Theme: Poverty
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 14 hours ago 177 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Levels & Trends in Child Mortality

It has been 12 years since world leaders committed to Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4), which sets out to reduce the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 148 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The National Integrated Early Childhood Development Policy Action Plan (2016-2021) of Uganda

The plan presents an opportunity for the development of comprehensive, integrated, coordinated and multi-sectoral interventions to Early Childhood Development. It also provides guidance and elaborates strategies that Government and partners will employ to undertake the execution of the NIECD policy...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 149 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Poliomyelitis

Strong progress continues to be made since the Health Assembly called for the worldwide eradication of poliomyelitis in 1988.2 At the time, poliomyelitis was endemic in more than 125 countries around the world and more than 350 000 children a year were paralysed for life by poliovirus. Today, transm...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Poliomyelitis.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 146 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The 8th National Quality Improvement Conference 24th - 26thNovember 2021

The 8th Uganda National Quality Improvement Conference will take place 24th - 26th November 2021. We have always used this important conference to share successes, innovations, best practices used to improve the quality of health care. This year we shall focus on ��Fostering Health System Resilience...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Call%20for%20abstracts%20QI%20Conference%2...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 145 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Atlas Global Resources for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities 2007

At present, information on resources and services for persons with intellectual disabilities is scarce, fragmented, and relates�mainly to high-income countries. To find data about availability of services, their nature, and access to them for a given�country is hard, and such data does not exist at...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 159 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The National HIV Prevention Strategy for Uganda 2011-15

Uganda has developed a National HIV Prevention Strategy to guide national efforts in the next phase of HIV prevention in the country in order to significantly reduce new HIV infections by about 30% by 2015. This, in line with the targets in the NDP would result in 40% reduction of the projected numb...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 150 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Screening, Holding, Notification at a Healthcare Facility during an EVD outbreak

Screening, Holding, Notification at a�Healthcare Facility�during an EVD outbreak presentation is an EVD IPC training material describing how to observe all persons entering the�facility by taking non- contact temperature, and asking relevant questions. The key outcome is to�determine if patient is�...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 159 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 150: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

As of 6 p.m. East African Time (EAT) 28 November 2022, a total of 12,124,913 COVID-19 cases and 256,174 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-four (80%) AU MS are reporting...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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