An Act to provide for the prevention and control of HIV and AIDS, including protection, counselling,testing, care of persons living with and affected by HIV and AIDS, rights and obligations of persons living with HIV and AIDS and to establish the HIV and AIDS trust fund
The document titled AFRICAN REGIONAL BIOLOGICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT (Certified Professionals 2023) offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Af...
The document titled Behaviour change, risk communication and outbreak response: a best-practice workshop offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, So...
The Government of Uganda has identified HIV prevention as a priority in the National Development Plan (2010-15) and set a 40 percent target to reduce new HIV infections by 2015. Although HIV prevalence during the past decade has been stable around 6-7 percent among adults, the number of new HIV infe...
Reporting rate this week (87.8%) represents an about 10 percentage point increase from the previous week, 2019W7 (78%) There was a 6% increase reported malaria cases (100,336 in W6 vs. 106,503 this week. Key to note in this regard are net increases in Gomba, Butambala and Kyotera Districts which had...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 44: 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...
Since the emergence of COVID 19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 the disease has been declared a global pandemic and has been associated with the deaths of more than 2 3 million people around the world. It continues to be a dynamic and evolving pandemic.The first case in Africa was reported in Egyp...
The National medical oxygen scale up implementation plan articulates a holistic approach to improving demand and supply of medical oxygen in Uganda. Specifically, the plan aims to put in place coherent and harmonized implementation of key interventions to achieve an optimal medical oxygen supply mod...
This report summarises the findings of the 1995 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) conducted by the Statistics Department in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning. Macro International Inc. provided technical assistance. Funding was provided by the U.S. Agency for International Devel...
The Public Investment Plan (PIP) sets out planned investment decisions that the Government of Uganda plans to realise over the medium term (FY2016/17 - FY2018/19). The PIP provides an overview of all investment profiles for Central Government Votes with development funding (either GoU and or Externa...
The final draft re-aligned structure of the Ministry was presented to the Senior Top�Management Team and members of the Senior Management Team on 6th��January 2017, and�the final draft re-aligned structure was approved with changes. �The structure was finalized�based on final changes from the Senior...
Pre-Labour Rupture of Memranes
The document titled Establishment of a Biobanking Network as a Sustainable Mechanism to Accelerate Development and Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests in Africa offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses crit...
Uganda is currently using the IDSR strategy to improve the National disease and events surveillance system. Using standard case definitions to identify priority diseases and events of public health importance is one of the core functions of surveillance under the IDSR strategy
Guidance on PMTCT is provided regularly to countries by WHO.�Uganda launched the first PMTCT policy guidelines in 2002,following lessons learnt from the PMTCT pilot in 2000.�Main drug was sd NVP tab for mother in labour and baby within 72 hours after delivery,�AZT from 36 weeks of gestation, in labo...
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are major causes of acute and chronic liver disease (e.g. cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma) globally, and cause an estimated 1.4 million deaths annually. It is estimated that, at present, 248 million people are living with chronic H...
Child survival, which refers to the survival of children aged 0 to 5 years, is a major public health concern in Uganda. Though the past 20 years have witnessed improvements in child survival in Uganda, about 200,000 children under the age of 5 years still die annually, mainly during the first year (...
The comprehensive set of family planning interventions the Government of Uganda is pursuing is spurred by the recognition that addressing the current situation requires a multi-pronged approach. For instance, as noted in the Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan, the contraceptive prevalence ra...
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.
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...
