For week 36, we have seen a one percentage point reduction in the test positivity rate (from 58% to 57% this week) and the number of districts in upsurge has reduced from 50 to 44 this week. Despite this decline, we saw an increase across all other indicators: confirmed cases, deaths, and the percen...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (03 August 2021) 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...
The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Senegal 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...
About the Project Approximately 700,000 deaths occur globally annually due to infections caused by antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) pathogens. In Africa, western sub-Saharan Africa, is disproportionately affected by AMR relative to other regions. The pervasiveness of AMR in this region threatens to rev...
In 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) undertook a comprehensive review of the uses and interpretation of anthropometric references. The review concluded that the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)/WHO growth reference, which had been recommended for international use since the late...
Mr. Speaker Sir and Honorable Members of Parliament, the overall goal of the health sector is the attainment of a good standard of health of the people in Uganda, in order to promote a healthy and productive life. The specific objective of the sector is to reduce morbidity and mortality from the maj...
The document titled Core Values of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) 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, South...
The function of the committee is to monitor the general administration of the hospital on behalf of the district local council and ministry of health done under the policy guidelines of ministry of health
The modular format of the curriculum allows learners to acquire job specific skills and knowledge (competences) module by module. In principle, and following the philosophy of Competence-Based Education and Training (CBET), the modules can be used as a guide for learning in a training centre or at t...
Health Insurance is the way of financing health care where individuals or households contribute money to a common pool and when they fall sick they access a defined package of health services withouthaving to pay from their pockets.
Until the outbreak of an exotic communicable disease or other dramatic event, the elaborate infrastructures and mechanisms that protect public health on a daily basis often go unnoticed and attract little media1 interest. In the midst of a public health emergency2 the situation becomes very differen...
Uganda has been highlighted as basically meeting its national food supply needs, yet it still has a large proportion of children who are malnourished. Successive demographic and health surveys show little change in nutritional status. Moreover, this is against appreciable gains in economic growth in...
This Citizens�� Report Card (CRC) provides perceptions of healthcare users on service accessibility, availability and quality at selected health facilities in the districts of Bushenyi and Lira. The CRC was prepared by Uganda National Health Consumers�� Organisation (UNHCO) and Coalition for Health...
• Firstly, the lifting of COVID-19 social measures such as wearing masks, social distancing, handwashing, and restricted movements which allowed individuals with compromised immune systems or those without necessary vaccinations/boosters to interact freely. • And secondly, seasonal fluctuations, inc...
The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its 108th (Centenary) Session on 10 June 2019, and Recalling that the Declaration of Philadelphia affirms that all human beings,...
it is now criminal to appear in public without a mask, breach of which attracts a penalty of 14 days in quarantine. This is after the Public Health (COVID-19) Rules, 2020 were amended on May 08, 2020 and signed off by the Health Minister, Hon. Dr Ruth Aceng.
This Guide is a tool for clinical decision-making. The content is presented in a frame work of coloured flow charts supported by information and treatment charts which give further details of care. The framework is based on a syndromic approach whereby the skilled attendant identifies a limited num...
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2024 Womi-Eteng Oboma Eteng, Wessam Mankoula, Merawi Aragaw, Ibrahima Sonko, Mathew Tut, Dennis Kibiye, Lul Riek and Ahmed Ogwell Ouma In July 2022, on the sidelines of the 41st Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union a...
MPDSR emphasizes continuous�identification and reporting of maternal�and perinatal deaths including zero�for none registered and utilising�that information to facilitate Quality�Improvement (QI) processes. The national�MPDSR annual report FY 2022/23 is a result�of concerted efforts of health workers...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (16 February 2021) 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...
