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Africa CDC Mastercard Foundation: Saving Lives and Livelihoods Newsletter, June 2022

COVID-19 in Africa: Where we are today Africa has registered more than 11.7 million COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic. Egypt, Libya, Morocco, South Africa, and Tunisia are among countries with the highest number of cases on the continent. Meanwhile, only about 18% percent of the contine...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 84 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in South Africa

The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in South Africa 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...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 88 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Evaluation of certain veterinary drug residues in food 1008

The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) met in Geneva from 17 to 26 October 2017. The meeting was opened by Dr Kazuaki Miyagishima, Director of the Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses of the World Health Organization (WHO), on behalf of the directors-general of WHO and the Fo...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Evaluation%20of%20certain%20veterinary%20d...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 85 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (16 February 2022)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (16 February 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, N...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-16-february-2022/...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 90 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Mastercard Foundation: Saving Lives and Livelihoods Newsletter, September 2023

Currently, 14 African Union member states have vaccinated at least 70 percent of their eligible populations with the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the WHO Tanzania and São Tomé and Príncipe have fully vaccinated their populations, while Botswana has immunized 94 percent of theirs Mauritius, Seychel...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 91 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Child health in the Community

Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Children under five years of age bear a disproportionate share of the global burden of disease. While major gains have been made in reducing childhood mortality during previous decades, stagnation or even reversals of trends have been observed recent...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Child%20health%20in%20the%20community.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 95 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin

This bulletin serves to inform all stakeholders at community district, and national levels on suspected disease trends, public health surveillance and interventions undertaken in detecting, preventing and responding to public health events in Uganda on a weekly basis.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 3 days ago 117 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Care of mother and baby at the health Centre: a practical guide

The purpose of this report is to define the functions, tasks and skills needed for the comprehensive care of the mother and baby, covering the preconceptual, prenatal,intranatal and post natal periods which can be provided at the health centre and in the community.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Care%20of%20mother%20and%20baby%20at%20the...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 90 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Communicating the Economics of Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities

The strong links between socio-economic factors or public policies and health were documented in the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health report. Yet even when health and health equity are seen as important markers of development, expressing the benefits of soc...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Communicating%20the%20economics%20of%20soc...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 87 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Quality Improvement Training Guide 2022

The 5S Quality Improvement (QI) Training Guide comes to address the current gap of inadequacy of the required materials for developing capacity towards improved implementation of 5S and QI in the country. There is increasing demand towards sharing knowledge to fulfil ability and one potential to per...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/QUALITY%20IMPROVEMENT%20TRAINING%20GUIDE%2...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 89 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Promising pathways

This document offers snapshots of the Madagascar GSF experience in CLTS to a wider audience. Madagascar had all usual national level challenges that generally block or slow down the pace of scaling up of CLTS. How these challenges have been� addressed and transformed into an apparently snowballing s...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Promising%20Pathways%20Innovations%20and%2...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Environmental Health and Sanitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 103 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Policy for Mainstreaming Occupational Health and safety in the Health Sector

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Policy%20for%20Mainstreaming%20occupationa...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 104 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Annual Health Sector Performance Report Financial Year 2000/2001

The Government of Uganda (GOU) is implementing Result Oriented Management (ROM) across the public service as a means of increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the Ugandan Public Service. ROM is an approach to management, which seeks to make the best use of resources available by setting clea...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/AHSPR%202000-2001.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 97 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 45: : 2nd -8th Nov 2020

We are pleased to share our 45th weekly epidemiological bulletin for the year 2020. 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 respond...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting 1 Like
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 101 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Policy on Public Sector Monitoring and Evaluation

The Government of Uganda (GoU) is committed to achieving results through the efficient and effective delivery of key public services, maintaining law and order and in facilitating the transformation of the economy to enable the private sector to flourish, to expand enterprise and ultimately ensure t...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Policy%20on%20Public%20Sector%2...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 94 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

World report on ageing and health 2015

The World report on ageing and health responds to these challenges by recommending equally profound changes in the way health policies for ageing populations are formulated and services are provided. As the foundation for its recommendations, the report looks at what the latest evidence has to say a...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
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Uganda Services Availability and Readiness Assessment 2013

SARA Identifies at the percentage of facilities that offer a particular health intervention (service availability) as well as whether facilities offering the service have the minimum set of items (equipment, trained staff and guidelines, diagnostic capacity, and medicines) in order to provide an ade...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Uganda%20Service%20Availability%20Readines...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
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Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Primary Screening tool

Primary Screening is to assess potential EVD symptoms before entering a health facility.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/EVD%20Primary%20Screening%20tool_0.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 94 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Chronic HIV Care with ARV Therapy and Prevention

IMAI/IMCI (Integrated Management of Adolescent and Adult Illness/Integrated Management of Childhood Illness) is a multi-departmental project in WHO producing guidelines and training materials for first-level facility health workers in low-resource settings. IMAI/IMCI are part of the WHO model essent...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Chronic%20HIV%20Care%20with%20ARV%20therap...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 104 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

IPC Scorecard

IPC Scorecard presentation is an EVD IPC training material to help health facilities collect information about the health facility assessment. The Scorecard is not for EVD treatment centres (separate assessment).

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/IPC%20Scorecard.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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