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 document titled Outbreak Brief 72: 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...
The total Current Health Expenditure (CHE) in Uganda in 2012/13 was Shs.4,866 billion that translates to a per capita spending of Shs. 144,374 ($55). This increased in nominal terms by 1.7% and in real terms by Shs. 86 billion to 4,952 billion in 2013/14 that translates to a per capita spending of 1...
The review comprises the most recent information on the ways in which mental health concerns intersect with women��s reproductive health. It includes a discussion of the bio-psycho-social factors that increase vulnerability to poor mental health, those that might be protective and the types of progr...
Now these countries want to build on the many successes of the past 15 years, and go further. The new set of goals, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aims to end poverty and hunger by 2030. World leaders, recognizing the connection between people and planet, have set goals for the land, the...
The document titled Personal Protective Equipment for Different Clinical Settings and Activities 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 Afric...
The guidance package consists of a series of interrelated user-friendly modules that are designed to address the wide variety of needs and priorities in policy development and service planning. The topic of each module represents a core aspect of mental health.
The document titled Outbreak Brief 33: COVID-19 Pandemic – 1 September 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, S...
Diabetes triples the risk of developing tuberculosis (TB). Consequently, rates of TB are higher in people with diabetes than in the general population, and diabetes is a common comorbidity in people with TB. Diabetes can worsen the clinical course of TB, and TB can worsen glycaemic control in people...
Worldwide, cervical cancer comprises approximately 12% of all cancers in women. It is the second most common cancer in women but the commonest in developing countries. Cervical screening is acknowledged as currently the most effective approach for cervical cancer control. However, in many countries,...
This Manual is intended for Training of Trainers but may be used to guide training of other professional health workers, both pre-service and in service cadres. If used appropriately, the manual helps the trainer to deliver the infection control training package in a systematic and comprehensive man...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 47: 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...
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...
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...
As of today, the following countries have more than 70 per cent of the populations fully vaccinated Mauritius, Seychelles, Rwanda, Comoros, Tanzania, Somalia, Liberia, Cape Verde, Morocco, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, and Sao Tome and Principe.Africa has registered over 12 million COVID-19 cases si...
In April 2018 a historic partnership of governments, civil society, the private sector and multilateral organisations, came together in London for a momentous Malaria Summit, delivering US $4.1 billion investment for the global malaria fight. Two days later at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Me...
More than ten years ago, the Ministry of Health adapted a Generic Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response Technical Guidelines supported by World Health Organization-Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) in collaboration with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atl...
This publication is about the oaths to be taken by civil servants in their differnt capacities.
Reporting rate this week (82.9%) is five percentage points higher to that in the previous week, 2019W24 (77.9%)�There were an increase in malaria morbidity this week. About 27,000 more malaria cases occurred this week (268,567) compared to 241,802 the previous week. About 8.6% (11/128) of districts...
Worldwide, tuberculosis (TB) continues to be the most important cause of death from a single infectious microorganism.1 Although recent decades have witnessed increased efforts in the fight to end TB, fundamental gaps are hampering these efforts, particularly in resource-constrained settings and in...