This report is submitted in response to Health Assembly resolution WHA69.6 (2016) and provides an update on the preparation for the third High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases, to be held in 2018, including the responses to specific ass...
The Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report is the most extensive and current source of information on global household wealth. Now in its ninth edition, the report not only provides insights into the wealth development of regions and segments, but for the first time it also focuses on the most recent ev...
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...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 118: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa, Weste...
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...
This publication discusses the rationale and relevance of clinical mentoring to the public health approach to scaling up HIV care and antiretroviral therapy (antiretroviral therapy). This discussion is based on the Planning Consultation on Clinical Mentoring: Approaches and Tools to Support Scaling-...
This policy replaces the 2003 document, uganda national policy guidelines for HIV voluntary counselling and testing. The revision was promted by scientific and programmatic advances in HIv counselling and as well advances in prevention.
Cognisant of these gaps in the IHR, the World Health Organization (WHO) formed an Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) to draft a new legally binding Pandemic Agreement and to facilitate the conclusion of member state negotiations by the upcoming 77th World Health Assembly (WHA) in May 2024. Und...
This document is a detailed step-by-step procedure for the environmental cleaning and disinfection process�for the care of suspected, confirmed, or probable Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases at healthcare facilities.
The Ministry of Health and development partners have provided targeted nutrition interventions to selected�districts and health facilities using the nutrition assessment, counselling, and support (NACS) approach in�services for people living with HIV (PLHIV).�The NACS approach strengthens the broade...
This technical working group on the prevention and treatment of obstetric fistulae is part of the effort to provide more effective support to countries particulary in areas where WHO is a unique contribution to make in norm setting and the establishment of agreed standards.
The document titled Guidance on Environmental decontamination 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, Southern Africa...
This publication draws upon current guidelines and information documents issued by the World Health Organization (WHO), which provide more detailed guidance on implementation for each of the specific subject areas. The listed references are limited to key readings for implementation of programme act...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – 12 May 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...
This weekly epidemiological bulletin serves to inform all stakeholders at district, national, and global levels on disease trends, public health surveillance and interventions undertaken in detecting, preventing and responding to public health events in the country on a weekly basis. In this issue,...
This Health Facility Master List is a complete listing of both public and private health facilities in the country. There are 6,404 health facilities and each are established under unique administrative units i.e. Region, district, health sub-district, and subcounty etc. The need to uniquely identi...
Uganda has the sixth highest number of annual deaths from malaria in Africa, as well as some of the highest reported malaria transmission rates in the world, with approximately 16 million cases reported in 2013 and over 10,500 deaths annually. In addition, malaria has an indirect impact on the econo...
This report presents the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date, based on a set of data prepared by a large number of international organizations within and outside the United Nations system.
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a popular global health policy agenda and particularly in Uganda, the health ambition is now aligned to the UHC target. This brief provides an understanding of UHC progress in Uganda, by examining healthcare coverage and equity based on reproductive, maternal, new-...
What is the current status of COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in Africa? By the 31st December 2021, only seven (13%) of 55 Africa Union (AU) Member States had reached the year end 40% population coverage goal (Botswana, Cape Verde, Mauritius, Morocco, Rwanda, Seychelles and Tunisia), and currently on...
