Malaria prevalence has reduced from 42% in 2009 to 19% in 2014 and is currently at 9% in 2018 according to the preliminary results from the malaria indicator survey (MIS). This period had an increase in cases and Test Positivity rate (TPR) compared to the same period in 2018. It also had an increase...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 146: 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...
This guide provides practical steps to reduce drowning - one of the world��s most preventable, neglected and pressing public health issues. Through 10 evidence-based interventions and strategies it is designed to help drowning-prevention practitioners - from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (2 March 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, North...
Uganda��s economic performance has been impressive in the past decade. The average real rate of GDP growth has been 6.9 per annum since 1990/91. Significant progress has been registered in trade liberalisation, privatisation, civil service reform, financial sector reforms and decentralisation initia...
The Govemment of Uganda continues to facilitate the attainment of a good standard of health for all the people in Uganda. The goal of the Health Sector is therefore to reduce morbidity and mortality as a contribution to poverty reduction as well as economic and social development of the people of Ug...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (25 May 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, Northe...
This manual was developed by the Pharmacy Division, Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Securing Ugandans�� Right to Essential Medicines (SURE) Program with assistance from health workers representing all levels of care. The purpose of this manual is to provide health workers with a refere...
Geographic Focus: Reports could either focus on events affecting single country or multiple countries.Inclusion criteria: While Africa CDC continues to track all public health events on the continent, this report highlights only moderate to very high-risk events (with new updates in the reporting we...
Uganda��s Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) had remained high for 15 years, with no significant decline between 1990 and 2000 (527 to 505 deaths per 100,000 live births). The Uganda Demographic and Health Survey of 2005/6 registered a modest decline to 435 deaths per 100,000 live births. This Maternal...
This 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, we brin...
Healthcare workforce development is critical to meeting Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3) and other health-related SDGs and to achieve universal healthcare coverage (UHC)2(p3) in Africa. The COVID-19 pandemic further compounds the already ill equipped, under-staffed strained, and over-stretched...
This revised manual provides an update on those and other areas and pays special attention to the key role of the district TB/leprosy supervisors (DTLS). It provides guidance on how the district TB and leprosy supervisor (DTLS) function relates to the health facility staff on the one hand and the he...
Supporting delivery of vaccinations to millions more across the continent: The Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative is investing in a spectrum of activities required to turn vaccines into vaccinations, including safe storage and transportation of vaccines, ancillaries, and other supplies; to esta...
This strategy represents Uganda��s commitment to comprehensive condom programming with the purpose of ensuring that all sexually active persons at risk of STIs/HIV and unintended pregnancies are motivated to choose and use condoms, have access to quality condoms and the ability to use them correctly...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 49: 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 Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) is the World Health Organisation's (WHO��s) standardized qualitative assessment of a country��s Health Financing system. The assessment builds on an extensive body of conceptual and empirical work and summarizes ��what matters in Health Financing for Unive...
The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) is a State Corporation established in Kenya in 1979 through the Science and Technology (Repealed) Act, Cap 250 of the Laws of Kenya operated under the Scie...
The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children��s Fund (UNICEF) and many other organizations are involved in the procurement of pharmaceutical products. In particular, the supply of pharmaceutical products used in the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficie...
The State of the World��s Children 2009 focuses on maternal and neonatal health and identifies the interventions and actions that must be scaled up to save lives.