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World Development Report 2007, Development and the Next Generation

This Report has been prepared by a core team led by Emmanuel Y. Jimenez and comprising Jean Fares, Varun Gauri, Mattias K. A. Lundberg, David McKenzie, Mamta Murthi, Cristobal Ridao-Cano, and Nistha Sinha. The team was assisted by Amer Hasan, Sarojini Hirshleifer, Natsuko Kiso, and Annette Richter,...

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Theme: Workforce Development
Sub Theme: Human Resource Development
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Cancer control, Prevention

Cancer is to a large extent avoidable. Many cancers can be prevented. Others can be detected early in their development, treated and cured. Even with late stage cancer, the pain can be reduced, the progression of the cancer slowed, and patients and their families helped to cope.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Cancers
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 days ago 137 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Leadership For Primary Health Care

The extension of Health care to all people has been an objective of the national Health systems for many years and since the Alma-Ata confrence on Primary Health Care in 1978,Countries have pursued this aim with greater vigour.

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Theme: Emergency Preparedness
Sub Theme: Primary Health Care
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 170 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidelines for Drinkingwater Quality Fourth Edition incorporating the First Addendum

The primary purpose of the Guidelines for drinking-water quality is the protection of public health. The Guidelines provide the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) for managing the risk from hazards that may compromise the safety of drinking-water. The recommendations should be co...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Environmental Health and Sanitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 153 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Teacher's Guide for Advanced Diploma in Public Health Nursing 2018

The Guide emphasises 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 semester. You should ensure that learners are well-versed with practical work. The teaching methodolo...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 174 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Essential Maternal and Newborn Clinical Care Guidelines for Uganda, May 2022

For Uganda to achieve its SDG targets requires steepening the rate of MMR declined by��5.5% to achieve <140/100,000 by 2030, IMR has to reduce to at least 12 per 1000 live births and U5MR to 25 per 1000 live births by 2030. The MPDSR report for the FY 2020/2021 shows that the three major causes of i...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 18 hours ago 130 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Ministry Stock status report as at 1st April 2018

This report highlights stock status, real challenges, bottlenecks but also recommends potential solutions to mitigate stock outs and expiries of ARVs & HIV test kits, ACTs, Anti-TB medicines, Reproductive Health items, selected Laboratory commodities,Vaccines and selected medicines for treatment of...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 132 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The East African Community HIV and AIDS prevention and management Act 2012

An act of the community to provide for the prevention and managenet of HIV /AIDS and for the protection and promotion of the human rights of persons living with or affected by HIV and AIDS.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 182 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Revealing the toll of COVID-19: A technical package for Member States

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...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 148 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 40, 30th September - 6th October, 2019

During week 40, a total of 52,261 cases were reported from 16 conditions of priority. This resulted into 34 deaths due to malaria. Malaria, Typhoid, Measles and Dysentery were the leading causes of morbidity during this epidemiological week. Sadly, 179 babies died within one week of life and 14 moth...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
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Uganda Clinical Guidelines, 2023

The guidelines are based on principles of scientific evidence, cost-effectiveness�and prioritization of conditions to maximize the health benefit�with limited resources.�The regular update of clinical guidelines and essential medicines lists�is one of the key interventions in the Health Sector Devel...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 643 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Annual Report 2021

By the end of 2020 the world saw a renewed hope as approved vaccines became available to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Africa CDC committed itself into exploring every available option to make sure that Africa is not left behind in accessing this life saving treatment. The African Vaccine Acquisitio...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 152 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda National Malaria control Policy 2011

The National malaria Control policy provides a framework and environment within the overall context of the national health policy and the health sector strategic and investment plan of the country for sustainable malaria prevention and control.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 24 hours ago 157 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa Mask Week 23-30 November 2020

The document titled Africa Mask Week 23-30 November 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 Africa, Southern Africa, Wes...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 132 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 71: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

As of 9 am East African Time (EAT) 25 May 2021, a total of 4,768,416 COVID-19 cases and 128,718 deaths (CFR: 2.7%) have been reported in 55 African Union (AU) Member States. This represents 3% of all cases reported globally. The 21 AU Member States reporting case fatality ratios higher than the glob...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 136 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Acceleration of HIV Prevention in Uganda , A road map towards zero new infections by 2030

Uganda has made great strides in reducing overall HIV incidence, AIDS related mortality, new infections among infants, and HIV prevalence. While the current improvements have been made, the scope, coverage and intensity of interventions are still inadequate to move the country to epidemic control an...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 201 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (27 October 2021)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (27 October 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, No...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 156 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Investing to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases : Third WHO report on neglected tropical diseases.

This third WHO report anticipates the investments needed as countries graduate from low-income to middle-income status and as the world��s focus expands from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 135 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda Nutrition Action Plan 2011 - 2016

Nutrition plays a crucial role in the socioeconomic development of any country. Malnutrition accounts for about 35 percent of deaths among children under 5 years old around the world. Stunting, severe wasting, and intrauterine growth retardation are the major contributors to child mortality, account...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 200 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidelines for Implementation of workload Indicators of Staffing need methodology in Uganda 2019

This guide presents the Workload Indictors of Staffing Need (WISN) methodology as an analytic planning and management tool for the management of human resources for health in Uganda.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 174 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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