The document titled Outbreak Brief 128: 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...
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 reporting rate decreased to 71.6% in this week from 71.9% in last week. . A total of 167,291 malaria confirmed cases were reported, a decrease by 77.2% from the previous week. Test positivity rate this week was 49.3% compared to 47.3% last week. The highest Test positivity rates were reported in...
The document titled Optimizing Strategies for COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-out in Benin and Ghana offers a comprehensive insight into Vaccine Manufacturing, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa,...
A well functioning health information system is one that ensures the production, analysis, dissemination and use of reliable and timely health information by decision- makers at different levels of the health system, both on a regular basis and in emergencies. The Human Resource Information Systems...
Disease outbreaks occur frequently, and no two outbreaks are ever the same. There are always differences in magnitude and spread, and the ability to control and reduce fatality due to the outbreak will depend on the depth of scientific knowledge about the disease, availability of approved and well-k...
Malnutrition is the deficiency of protein,energy, as well as vitamins leading to loss of body fats and muscle tissues. It is a major public health concern in Uganda that affects both children and adults.
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 br...
In June 2010, the Ugandan Ministry of Health (MOH) with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Securing Ugandans�� Right to Essential Medicines (SURE) Program, collected data for the 2010 Pharmaceutical Sector Report. This report presents the findings of t...
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 decision making. This report highlights stock status, real challenges, bottlenecks but also recommends potential solutions to mitigate s...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 48: 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 Prevention 2020 Road Map provides the basis for a country-led movement to scale up HIV prevention programmes as part of Fast-Tracking a comprehensive response to meet global and national targets and commitments to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
The Standardisation Guide presents several digital health (DH) artefacts including; digital health Standards, digital health Enterprise...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 126: 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...
Despite marked advancement in prevention, care and treatment, HIV in Uganda continues to exert severe constraints on the public health and economic well-being of a sizeable proportion of the population. The type of HIV epidemic in Uganda is described as severe, mature, and generalized but with sub-e...
This is a dynamic and challenging time for those working in public health, in global health cooperation, and in tuberculosis control specifically. As a result of commitments to health at the highest political levels, there are unprecedented opportunities for expanding response to disease epidemics a...
Blood transfusion is a life-saving intervention that has an essential role in patient management within health care systems. All Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) endorsed World Health Assembly resolutions WHA28.72 (1) in 1975 and WHA58.13 (2) in 2005. These commit them to the pr...
This brief provides an overview of; OPD attendance, notifiable diseases, other diseases of public health interest and causes of death. Overall, Reporting Rates OPD attendance and neonatal deaths increased while maternal deaths decreased in the week. Malaria cases increased by 9% while malaria deaths...
The WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization met in Geneva from 29 October to 2 November 2018. The meeting was opened on behalf of the Director-General of WHO by Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Deputy Director- General for Programmes. Dr Swaminathan welcomed the Committee, meeting participants and...
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...