The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – 24 March 2020) 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, North...
The WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations met in Geneva from 14 to 18 October 2013. Dr M.-P. Kieny, Assistant Director-General of Health Systems and Innovation at the World Health Organization (WHO), welcomed participants on behalf of the Director-General. Dr Kieny t...
The second issue of the Lab Digest is here! This issue takes you through the evolution of the Central Public Health Laboratory from a one room provisional space to the magnificent home in Butabika. Did you know that this great institution/ department started off with one specialist? Catch this and m...
The Government is Implementing the second phase of the energy for Rural transformation programme, which will acceslerate investments and increase in regional coverage.
This publication is about the malaria case statistics of Uganda in the 2nd week of 2019.
In 2006, the Uganda Ministry of Health (MOH), in partnership with the Capacity Project, designed a study to help the MOH better understand the specific recruitment and retention factors for health workers in Uganda. The goal of the Uganda Health Worker Retention Study is to provide the Ministry of H...
The Africa CDC Western Africa RCC Public Health Resources Dashboard provides a centralized, interactive overview of critical public health resources across the Western African region. Designed to support evidence-based decision-making, this dashboard enables public health professionals to assess...
This case study focuses on malaria case management activities was implemented in Ssembabule District, Uganda, by Minnesota International HealthVolunteers (MIHV) during the second phase of a U.S. Agency forInternational Development (USAID)-funded Child Survival project (1996-2000).
WHO has published a global TB report every year since 1997. The main aim of the report is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic, and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease at global, regional and country levels. This is done in the context...
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...
COVID-19 in Africa: Where we are today Africa has registered about 12 million COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic. Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Morocco, South Africa, and Tunisia are among countries with the highest number of cases on the continent. Meanwhile, only about 19.5% percent of the c...
The Uganda Food and Nutrition Policy has been formulated within the context of the overall national development policy objective of eradicating poverty as spelt out in the Poverty Eradiation Action Plan (PEAP), and is in consonance with other policies already formulated by government
This Health Facilities Inventory has been compiled from information provided by districts through the offices of the District Health Officers, verified by the Resident District Commissioners and/or the Chief Administrative Officers. It covers all the 112 districts of the country. The report has bee...
The integrated Human Resource Information System (iHRIS) is a computerized Human Resources management tool consisting of electronic databases for storing, reporting, and analysing data from the time professionals enter preservice training to when they leave the workforce to ensure timely availabilit...
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 COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – 10 March 2020) 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 Africa, W...
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,...
Africa CDC, African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) and partners have developed a training curriculum to facilitate the implementation of Ag-RDT for detection of SARS-CoV-2 (https://aslm.org/courses/covid-19-antigen-training-materials/). These training materials are being used by Member State...
The AHSPR provides analysis of the health sector performance in respect to; i) the NDP III HCDP Key Results Areas (KRAs), ii) Diseases Burden, iii) Intermediate outcome indicators, and key inputs including medicines and health supplies, and financing. The report also provides an analysis of the Loca...
Oral Health is central to our daily life and well-being and experts a fundamental influence on the quality of life of every citizen of uganda.
