This brief provides an overview of; OPD attendance, notifiable diseases, other diseases of public health interest and causes of death. Overall, Reporting Rates OPD attendance and neonatal deaths increased while maternal deaths decreased in the week. Malaria cases increased by 9% while malaria deaths...
As of today, the following countries have more than 70 per cent of the populations fully vaccinated Mauritius, Seychelles, Rwanda, Comoros, Tanzania, Somalia, Liberia, Cape Verde, Morocco, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, and Sao Tome and Principe.Africa has registered over 12 million COVID-19 cases si...
The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in South Africa 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 Africa CDC Weekly Event Based Surveillance Report, April 2023 offers a comprehensive insight into Surveillance and Disease Intelligence, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern...
During the initial emergency response phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, testing efforts concentrated on identifying individuals infected with SARS-COV-2 for timely isolation, contact tracing and clinical care to break the chain of transmission and minimize morbidity and mortality.The purpose of this r...
Gender mainstreaming is an internationally accepted strategy that aims to institutionalize gender equality across sectors.It is the process of accesing the implications for women and men of any planned actions in legislations, policies and programmes.
World Health Statistics 2015 has been compiled using publications and databases produced and maintained by WHO technical programmes and regional offices. A number of demographic and socioeconomic statistics have also been derived from data produced and maintained by a range of national and internati...
The document titled Framework for Development of National Public Health Institutes in Africa 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 Afric...
This guidebook was formulated for trainers and leaders in management, in order to enhance 5S activities at health facilities under Ugandan government sector health services. By using this book, facilitators and leaders in health facilities will be able to train their trainees and frontline staff to...
This report presents results from a study of Uganda��s National Health Accounts for the Fiscal Year 1997/98.� The study set out to describe the flow of funds in Uganda��s healthcare system, including both public and private sectors.� Using a comprehensive view of the health sector and standard defin...
In week 16 2016 all the 112 districts reported with an average reporting rate of 77%. 12 (11%) districts had 100% all of their health facilities reporting and 52% of the districts achieved the national target reporting rate of at least 80%. No district had less than a third of their facilities repor...
With its population expected to double to 2.5 billion people by 2050, Africa has been disproportionally affected by the impacts of climate change. Africa contributes only 4% of the global carbon emissions; however, 7 out of the 10 countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change globally a...
About the Project In 2023, 166 outbreaks and public health events were reported in Africa. This calls for a resilient laboratory systems for timely detection and reporting of current and future outbreaks. This project aims to scale up molecular diagnostic and genomic sequencing-based detection and c...
The terms ��hygiene�� and ��sanitation�� can mean different things to different people. For the purposes of this document the term ��sanitation�� is used to refer to the management of human excreta. The term ��hygiene�� is used to refer to the behaviours/ measures, including but beyond the managemen...
IPC Action Plan Development presentation is one of the EVD IPC training materials for HC II and pharmacies.
This Report is a manifestation of the commitment of the Government of Uganda to institutionalize strategies for encouraging service recipients to provide feedback regarding the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery.
The report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, issued in September 2008, challenged conventional public health thinking on several fronts. The report responded to a situation in which the gaps, within and between countries, in income levels, opportunities, health status, life expecta...
Uganda��s young population can be a valuable asset in driving the demographic dividend agenda. This will depend on the country��s ability to implement a development program that recognises the importance of population dynamics in development.3 In this regard, there is a need to deliberately change U...
The Health Information and Digital Health (HIDH) Strategic Plan 2020/21 - 2024/25 provides the strategic direction and priority interventions for health information management and digitization of the Health Information System (HIS) in the 5 years 2020/21 to 2024/25. It is�fully aligned with the Mini...
World Health Statistics 2017 focuses on the health and health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets by bringing together data on a wide range of relevant SDG indicators. In some cases, as indicator definitions are being refined and baseline data are being collected, pro...
