Fast-tracking COVID-19 vaccine acquisition, delivery and uptake are critical to protecting lives and stimulating economic recovery. With only 15% of the African population reported to be fully vaccinated as of 16 March 2022, African Union (AU) Member States need to identify innovative and effective...
The National Health Laboratory Strategic Plan (NHLSP) provides a national framework to guide investments in laboratory services by the Government of Uganda and Health Development partners. It aims to strengthen coordination, implementation and management of the services and ensure that they are tran...
Agriculture is and will, in the medium term, remain central to Uganda��s economic growth and poverty reduction. It employs nearly 80% of the population1, contributes approximately 25% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and generates 40% of the country��s exports.
The Uganda Program for Human and Holistic Development (UPHOLD) is a USAIDfunded program designed with the Government of Uganda (GoU) to strengthen human capacity through the delivery of improved services in Education, Health, and HIV/AIDS prevention and care in 34 districts of Uganda.� UPHOLD��s bro...
The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Nigeria 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 World Health Assembly, convening together senior decision-makers on public health issues, was a crucial opportunity to step up the advocacy for investment in CHWs within the community health workforce needed to improve primary health care and epidemic/pandemic preparedness and response in Africa...
The modular format of the curriculum allows learners to acquire job specific skills and knowledge (competences) module by module. In principle, and following the philosophy of Competence-Based Education and Training (CBET), the modules can be used as a guide for learning in a training centre or at t...
The final draft re-aligned structure of the Ministry was presented to the Senior Top�Management Team and members of the Senior Management Team on 6th��January 2017, and�the final draft re-aligned structure was approved with changes. �The structure was finalized�based on final changes from the Senior...
Since mid 1990��s, WHO and partners have provided technical support to a large number of African countries to promote rational use of antimalarial medicines, monitor medicine efficacy and update treatment policies. In Uganda, resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to Chlororoquine rose to unacceptable...
This newsletter will interest you if you use Ugandan roads! Which is just about everyone in the country! How did you get to work today? How will you get back? What about your school going kids? Our concern for road safety is behind our rather strange name, RT4. We are part of CEBHA+, a research netw...
This study demonstrates the relevance of tobacco control in achieving each of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals. It outlines the occurrence of the high yet increasing prevalence of tobacco use in the developing world, and documents the negative impact that tobacco cultivation and...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 13: COVID-19 Pandemic – 14 April 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, Sout...
This form should be completed for all health workers who have been exposed to a patient with Ebola, their body fluids, or�objects contaminated with body fluids. The form aids in the risk assessment for health workers (HW��s) after exposure to�determine the risk categorization of each HW and inform t...
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...
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to national AIDS programmes and partners actively involved in the country response to AIDS on use of core indicators to measure and report on the national response.The ��2011 UN Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS: Intensifying our Efforts to Elimina...
The PIP Framework aims to balance virus sharing with benefit sharing on an equal footing. Advances in vaccine, antiviral and diagnostic technology alone are not enough to protect a world against a pandemic. Whereas access to health services and products remains unequal around the world, the influenz...
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...
In August 2014, WHO drafted the Ebola Response Roadmap to set out the core strategy for stopping this unprecedented outbreak and to provide the basis for a significantly increased response. This was the basis for the UN system��s Overview of Needs and Requirements (ONR) and STEPP Strategy that follo...
EVD Secondary and Tertiary Screening is used to carry out further assessment for potential symptoms of EVD and COVID-19, before accessing the health care facility.
The National medical oxygen scale up implementation plan articulates a holistic approach to improving demand and supply of medical oxygen in Uganda. Specifically, the plan aims to put in place coherent and harmonized implementation of key interventions to achieve an optimal medical oxygen supply mod...
