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Guidelines to the Local Government Planning Process Health Sector Supplement

The republic of Uganda is an East African state currently under multiparty dispensation. Service delivery is decentralized to local governments as per the 1997 local Government Act. The Central government, however, retains the role of setting standards and providing guidelines to local governments....

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Theme: Health Policy and Governance
Sub Theme: Leadership, Governance, and Management
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 35 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Role of Religious Leaders in Promoting the Measles-Rubella and Polio Immunisation Campaign

This circular is to teach, encourage and convince congregations to get their children immunised against Measles-Rubella and Polio

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 33 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Adolescent Health Policy Guidelines and Service Standards

Uganda has a large young population; approximately 52.7% of the population is under 15 years of age. One in every four Ugandans (23.3%) is an adolescent and one in every three (37.4%) is a young person.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Adolescent Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 39 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Quality Improvement Manual For TB Care Services

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a disease of great public health concern in Uganda. The country is one of the 30 high TB/HIV burden countries in the world. The prevalence of TB estimated in the recently concluded National TB prevalence survey is almost two times higher than had previously been estimated (...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases 1 Like
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 36 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda 2022 Progress Brief on Family Planning

Uganda 2022 Progress Brief on Family Planning, commitments and National Goals.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 31 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Information Technology policy for Uganda : Final draft

This policy has been developed to foster the development of IT as an industry as well as spearhead development of IT Enabled Services (ITES).

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 34 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 149: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 149: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic offers a comprehensive insight into Surveillance and Disease Intelligence, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Norther...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 6 hours ago 35 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Enhanced COVID-19 Surveillance at the Community Level in Africa

The strategy recommends that AU Member States should enhance, where feasible, existing COVID-19 surveillance to include:To ensure successful implementation, testing and reporting considerations have been aligned with existing Africa CDC guidance on the implementation of rapid antigen testing and gen...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 44 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Secondary and Tertiary Screening Wide

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.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 32 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidelines For Integrated Management Of Acute Malnutrition in Uganda January 2016

Malnutrition can be either under-nutrition or over-nutrition (obesity). This guideline will specifically deal with acute malnutrition as a form of under nutrition. Under nutrition is the result of deficiency of protein, energy, minerals as well as vitamins leading to loss of body fats and muscle tis...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/IMAM_Guidelines-for-Uganda-Jan-2016-FINAL-...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 49 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Curbing the Epidemic Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control

SMOKING already kills one in 10 adults worldwide. By 2030, perhaps a little sooner, the proportion will be one in six, or 10 million deaths per year��more than any other single cause. Whereas until recently this epidemic of chronic disease and premature death mainly affected the rich countries, it i...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 36 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Ministry of Health Pharmacy Division Stock Status Report as at 1st February 2019

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 decisions making . This report highlights stock status, real challenges, bottlenecks but also recommends potential solutions to mitigate...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/MOH%20SSR%201st%20February%202019.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 6 hours ago 28 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 40, 3rd - 9th October, 2017

In Week 40 of 2016, the proportion of health facilities that submitted a report was 83.5% which represents a 49.1% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2015. Only 19.8% (23/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 64.7% (75/116) of the districts achiev...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 31 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Management of 2nd Stage of Labor

Management of 2nd stage of labor

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 39 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 82: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 82: 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-82-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=162...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 33 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, 2018

The Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2018 puts the spotlight on human trafficking in armed conflict. Human trafficking is always a crime, committed with the intention to exploit; in conflict situations, characterized by violence, brutality and coercion, traffickers can operate with even great...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Human Rights
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 33 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (17 August 2022)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (17 August 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, Nor...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-17-august-2022/?i...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 hours ago 38 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Education Sector Gender Statistics Profile Uganda

Development of the gender statistics profiles is anchored in the Beijing Platform for Action, which underscores the need for gender analysis as one of the critical starting point for gender mainstreaming. The main objectives of compiling the gender statistics profile were to establish the level of...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 5 hours ago 49 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Door to door delivery service: How Joint Medical Stores cut its distribution costs

Joint Medical Store (JMS) is a private-not-for-profit organization that was established in 1979 by the Uganda Catholic and Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau to supply medicines and health supplies to its network of over 600 health facilities. As one of their strategies to increase access to essential...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/JMS%20success%20story%20to%20print_0.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 14 hours ago 32 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Rural Women Entrepreneurship in Uganda a Synthesis Report on Policies, Evidence, and Stakeholders

There is growing emphasis in the policy debate on rural women��s entrepreneurship as a poverty alleviation strategy and a preferred tactic to spur economic development. To this end, this synthesis report puts into perspective the nature of Uganda��s rural woman entrepreneurs, paying close attention...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 38 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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