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Integrating Nutrition Assessment Counselling and Support (NACS) into health service delivery - Reference Manual

The Ministry of Health and development partners have provided targeted nutrition interventions to selected�districts and health facilities using the nutrition assessment, counselling, and support (NACS) approach in�services for people living with HIV (PLHIV).�The NACS approach strengthens the broade...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/MYCAN%20REFERENCE%20MANUAL%202021.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 172 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Policy Brief on Revitalising Civil Servants Perforformance for Sustainable Development

Globally, concerns about declining public service delivery have put Governments at a critical point of the national sustainable development agendas. There has been rediscovery of the role of public institutions in the drive for sustainable development and democracy. There is no doubt that public ser...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/NEW%20Revitalising%20Civil%20Servants%20Pe...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 hours ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Village Health Team Guide for Training the Trainers of Village Health Teams

The Ministry of Health is implementing the Village Health Team (VHT) strategy to ensure that every village in Uganda has capacity to mobilize individuals and households for better health. VHT members are community volunteers who are selected by communities to provide correct health information, mobi...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/VHT%20ToT%20Guide.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health system resilience
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 157 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 51: 14th -20th Dec 2020

We are pleased to share our 51st 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...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Weekly%20Epidemiological%20Bulletin%20Week...
Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 167 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Event-based Surveillance Resources

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) would like to thank all the contributors whose efforts helped to create and develop both the original and this revised version of the Africa CDC Event-based Surveillance Framework. The technical working group that contributed to the...

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cdc-event-based-surveillance-framework-2/?ind=1690455420065&fi...
Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 167 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Helping Health Workers Learn A book of methods

Such a world-wide goal is very worthy. But in some ways it is dangerous. For there is a risk of trying to reach that goal in ways that become so standardized, so impersonal, so controlled by those in power, that many of the human qualities essential to health��and to health care�� are lost. There is...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Helping%20Health%20Workers%20Learn_compres...
Theme: Emergency Preparedness
Sub Theme: Primary Health Care
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 125 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 111: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

As of 6 p.m. East African Time (EAT) 28 February 2022, a total of 11,188,490 COVID-19 cases and 248,812 deaths (CFR: 2.2%) have been reported in 55 African Union (AU) Member States (MS). This represents 3% of all cases and 4.2% of all deaths reported globally. Thirty-four (60%) AU MS are reporting C...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-111-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=16...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 hour ago 168 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Dengue Fever Technical Factsheet

Dengue fever is an acute febrile disease caused by any of the four existing dengue virus serotypes (DENV1,2,3,4). ● Dengue is found worldwide in tropical and sub-tropical regions, mostly in urban and semi-urban areas. It is endemic in about 100 countries, including in tropical areas of Africa. ● Den...

https://africacdc.org/download/dengue-fever-technical-factsheet/?ind=1693921005969&filename=DENGUE-F...
Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 days ago 165 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Nurses and Midwives ACT, 1996

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires�� certificate�� means a certificate issued under section 18; ��chairperson�� means the chairperson of the council appointed under section 4; ��council�� means the Nurses and Midwives Council established under section 2; ��diploma�� means a diploma...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20Nurses%20and%20Midwives%20Act%2C%201...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 36 Minutes ago 195 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Financing of Palliative Care Services in Uganda

The Financing of Palliative Care Services in Uganda was established for the funding of sources for palliative care services, the services provided and the financial sustainability plans.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Jacinto%20Amandua%2025EKL%2011914%20Final%...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Guidelines on Tuberculosis Infection Prevention and Control 2019 update

Worldwide, tuberculosis (TB) continues to be the most important cause of death from a single infectious microorganism.1 Although recent decades have witnessed increased efforts in the fight to end TB, fundamental gaps are hampering these efforts, particularly in resource-constrained settings and in...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/WHO%20Guidelines%20on%20Tuberculosis%20Inf...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 hour ago 146 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update

As countries discontinue COVID-19-specific reporting and integrate respiratory disease surveillance, WHO will use all available sources to continue monitoring the COVID-19 epidemiological situation, especially data on impact. COVID-19 remains a major threat and WHO urges Member States to maintain, n...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/20230825_weekly_epi_update_157_edited.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: COVID-19
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 150 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Supply Chain Management, Monitoring and Reporting of Outpatient Therapeutic Care Programs

OTC provides home-based treatment and rehabilitation for clients who are severely, acutely malnourished but have appetite and are free of medical complications. This session will describe issues including criteria for entry and exit, activities in the OTC, link with other Care and planning and setti...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Supply%20Chain%20management%20monitoring%2...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health system resilience
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 144 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Synthesis, Consolidation and Building Consensus on Key and Priority Population Size Estimation Numbers in Uganda Final ReportINAL REPORT October 2019

Despite marked advancement in prevention, care and treatment, HIV in Uganda continues to exert severe constraints on the public health and economic well-being of a sizeable proportion of the population. The type of HIV epidemic in Uganda is described as severe, mature, and generalized but with sub-e...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/KPSE%20Final%20Draft%20Report_18%20Oct%202...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Prevention and Treatment of HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections for Sex Workers in Low- and Middle-income Countries

Sex workers in many places are highly vulnerable to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections due to multiple factors, including large numbers of sex partners, unsafe working conditions and barriers to the negotiation of consistent condom use. Moreover, sex workers often have little control over...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/WHO%20guidelines%20on%20sex%20workers%2020...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 162 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Health Sub Programme Grant, Budget and Implementation Guidelines for Local Governments, Financial Year 2023/24

This document is to provide guidance to Local Governments (LGs) for budgeting and implementation of Health Service Delivery activities, utilizing the Primary Health Care (PHC) grants and other Decentralized Health Grants in Financial Year (FY) 2023/24. These guidelines should also be used to prepare...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Health%20Sub%20Programme%20Budget%20and%20...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 153 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Electronic Government (e-Government) Framework

The way of carrying out business in the world today is changing at a very high speed with new technologies taking a center stage. Both government and the private sector have no alternative other than to move in that direction and adopt the emerging new technologies to modernize their service deliver...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20electronic%20Government%20frame...
Theme: Health Policy and Governance
Sub Theme: Leadership, Governance, and Management
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 143 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Malaria Report - Week 27

Summary of the Malaria indicators for week 27 (4 July - 10 July 2022)

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Malaria%20Bulletin-Epi%20week%2027.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 142 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Nutrition Program Report - Monthly Health Facility, April 2023

This document is a statistical report highlighting the performance of the key nutrition program indicators for the month of April 2023.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Nutrition%20Monthly%20Report_April%20%2020...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 days ago 156 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update 9 June 2020

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – 9 June 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, Northern...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-9-june-2020/?ind=...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 hour ago 136 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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