The 2021 Progress Estimates on Family Planning Commitments and National Goals estimates were derived; In order to have an accurate representation of FP progress. The current data have been incorporated with the data that has been generated over the last few years in order to monitor the annual progr...
The HRH audits and production of reports over the seven years have been supported and funded by projects under USAID funding. The reports enabled the Ministry to monitor the staffing levels, staffing gaps and skills shortagges of the health workers (HWs) in all the Public Health Facilities; and to k...
The Revealing the Toll of COVID-19 technical package contains step-by-step guidance on the collection, analysis and use of all-cause mortality data collected through facility- or community-based surveillance.The technical package has been developed by Vital Strategies, in partnership with the Africa...
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. In this issue, we brin...
The Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) has been prepared to guide COVID-19 outbreak response activities. This ESMF outlines the framework and mechanisms for environmental and social impact screening, determining extent of required environmental assessment and assessment of environm...
Management of Pre- Eclampsia /Eclampsia and Other Hypertensive Diseases
The document titled Outbreak Brief 127: 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...
Integrated Human Resources Information System (iHRIS) is a management tool that enables an organization to design and manage a comprehensive human resources strategy. iHRIS has five core components: iHRIS Qualify for health workforce registration and licensing, iHRIS Manage for human resource manage...
There has been great progress made in the control of malaria in Uganda with the incidence rate reducing from 272 cases per 1000 population in 2016/17 to 191 cases per 1000 population in 2017/18. The Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Health National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) and other...
No new country or territory is reporting cases for the first time but one country (Rwanda) is reporting deaths for the first time this week. The distribution of cumulative cases (proportion of global cases %) from the WHO reporting regions (excluding Africa) are as follows: Eastern Mediterranean Reg...
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...
The Guide emphasizes practical teaching, projects and acquisition of skills by the learner. The competences that learners are expected to acquire are clearly spelt out in each module covered in the term. You should ensure that learners are well versed with practical work. The teaching methodologies...
The implementation of HRIS in countries with no approved policies geared towards supporting its use and management has several challenges, but that should not over rid and prevent its implementation due to its advantages. In this paper we present the HRIS implementation process (strategies, approach...
En date du 25 Août 2020, à 9 heures (heure de l’Afrique de l’Est), un total de 1 195 297 cas de COVID-19 et 27 984 décès (TdL: 2%) avaient été signalés dans 55 pays africains. Cela représente 5% de tous les cas signalés dans le monde. Depuis le dernier bulletin, 67 052 nouveaux cas de COVID-19 ont é...
Reporting rate this week (71.3) represents an almost 14% decline in reporting rate from the previous week, 2019W13 (85.4%) There were almost 28,000 malaria cases less this week (89,355) compared to 117,040 reported the previous week.�There were 22deaths this week, the same as in the previous week. H...
This paper studies trends and determinants of children's standardized heights, a good overall measure of children's health status, in Uganda over the 1990s. During this period, Uganda made impressive strides in economic growth and poverty reduction (Appleton, 2001). However, there is concern that im...
There was an increase in the reported malaria cases from 99,000 in 2018 W2 as compared to 128,312 in 2019 W2. Adjumani & Moyo Districts with confirmed incidence rates ��20 cas-es/1,000 population topped 9 other districts with incidence >10 cas-es/1,000. In 23% (29/128) of districts at least 50% of p...
The overall goal of the Uganda NTD Control Program Sustainability Plan 2020-2025is to bring together other sectors on board to strengthen mechanisms that will enable the Ministry of Health to sustain NTD efforts and strengthen the health system to provide sustainable, accessible, equitable, and qual...
The world has made substantial progress in reducing child mortality in the past several decades. The total number of under-five deaths dropped to 5.6 (5.4, 6.0)1 million in 2016 from 12.6 (12.4, 12.8) million in 1990 - 15,000 every day compared with 35,000 in 1990. Globally, the under-five mortality...
This is a report of the 3rd National Community Health Financing Conference held at Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala, on 8th and 9th November, 2018. The conference was organized by Save for Health Uganda (SHU), with funding from Bread for the World and in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, and...
