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Ministry of Health Stock Status Report as at 1st April 2021

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...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 129 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin Week 45: 4th Oct -10th Nov 2019

During week 45, the reporting rates were as follows,�National rate was 78.0% less than 78.2% in week 44,�Central regional had 68.2% more than 67.9% in week 44 Eastern region had 76.3% less than 77.7% in week 44,�Western was 85.5%) less than 86.2% in week 44,�Northern was (82.1%) less than 86.9% in W...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/week_45_Epi_bulletin%20%283%29.pdf
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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 133 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Update: Keeping safe and healthy through the holidays

The likelihood that someone at a family gathering will be carrying the SARS-COV-2 virus is directly related to the number of infected people that are present in that community. In areas that are experiencing high transmission, there is a high likelihood that someone at your holiday gathering could b...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-update-keeping-safe-and-healthy-through-the-holidays/?ind=16...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 162 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 29: 12th -19th July 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 responding to public health events in the country on a weekly basis. This issue, we showcas...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 6 hours ago 136 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Scaling up Antiretroviral Therapy: Experience in Uganda

Uganda was one of the first African countries to respond aggressively to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, moving rapidly to institute measures aimed at preventing HIV transmission. HIV prevalence rates once described as being among the highest in Africa and tending toward 30% have declined to under 10 % withi...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 164 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Advocacy and Communication Strategy for the Biosafety and Biosecurity Legal Framework

This effort also assists Member States in complying with international requirements and regulations, such as the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005), the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), and United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540.To ensure a comprehensive and sustainab...

https://africacdc.org/download/advocacy-and-communication-strategy-for-the-biosafety-and-biosecurity...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 135 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Distribution of Free Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets in Nine UPHOLD-Supported Districts in Uganda

This report covers the experiences and lessons learned during the distribution of free long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) to nine UPHOLD supported districts between December 2005 and March 2006, using the existing Home-based Management of Fever (HBMF) system as the distribution channel.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 6 hours ago 153 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 74: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 74: 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-74-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=162...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 128 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 86: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 86: 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-86-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=163...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 146 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (06 October 2020)

A. Executive summary • Two preprint studies demonstrated that SARS-CoV2 D614G substitution enhances infectivity, replication fitness, and early transmission in hamsters. Findings indicate the D614G variant exhibited significantly faster droplet transmission between hamsters and clinical evidence tha...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-06-october-2020/?...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Prevention and control of Cholera

The overall goal of these guidelines is to contribute to the reduction of morbidity and mortality due to cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases which is in line with Health Sector development Plan goal (HSDP 2015/16-2019/2020); ��To accelerate movement towards Universal Health Coverage with essential...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Cholera
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 124 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Strengthening Logistics Preparedness for Infectious Disease Response in Uganda Baseline Report September 2021

Outbreaks of infectious diseases like Ebola virus disease (EVD), yellow fever, measles, or currently COVID-19, are regular occurrences in Uganda. If not detected early and effectively contained, these diseases threaten the health and economic well-being of the entire population, and beyond. Disease...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 169 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 52: 21st -27th Dec 2020

We are pleased to share our 52nd 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
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 187 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Priority Gender Equality Indicator 2016

Uganda has made significant progress on among others poverty reduction which reduced from 56 in 1992 to 19.7 percent in 2014, the expansion of educational opportunities for young people with 90 percent of the population aged 6-10 years now attending school, and, formulation of gender responsive poli...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 5 days ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Regional Strategic Plan for Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis (2004-2007)

Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) is one of the most debilitating and disfiguring scourges among all diseases. Worldwide 1.1 billion people are at risk of infection and some 120 million people are infected in 80 countries. It is one of the major public health problems in South-East Asia

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Lymphatic%20filariasis%202004.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Non-communicable diseases and risk factors
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 150 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 28, 11th - 17th July, 2016

Comparable to the previous week, all 112 districts reported and with an average reporting rate of 83.3% in week 28, 2016. This represents a 15.5% increase in reporting rate compared to the same week in 2015. A total of 23% (26/112) had 100% of all their health facilities reporting and 50% (66/112) o...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 145 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Human Development Report 2011 Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All

This Report explores the integral links between environmental sustainability and equity and shows that these are critical to expanding human freedoms for people today and in generations to come. The point of departure is that the remarkable progress in human development over recent decades that the...

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Theme: Workforce Development
Sub Theme: Human Resource Development
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Advisory on Disinfection Cards

Background There has been increasing use of body worn labels or tags, impregnated with chemical disinfectants, and worn on a lanyard or clipped to clothing, with the purpose of protecting against SARS-COV-2 virus. These are marketed as air purifier capable of removing viruses, bacteria and smog and...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 123 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Optimizing Strategies for COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-out in Benin and Ghana

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,...

https://africacdc.org/download/optimizing-strategies-for-covid-19-vaccine-roll-out-in-benin-and-ghan...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Vaccine Manufacturing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 136 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda Essential Medicines and Health Supplies Management Manual, Third Edition

This manual represents the revised and updated edition of the Essential Medicines and Health Supplies�(EMHS) Management Manual, following its initial publication in 2012. The Department of�Pharmaceuticals and Natural Medicines (DPNM) of the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with�development partn...

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Theme: Prevention
Sub Theme: Pharmaceuticals and Drugs
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 155 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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