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Service Standards and service Delivery Standards for the Health Sector

In accordance with the Constitution of Uganda, all citizens are entitled to access high quality and cost effective public services. Efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability in service delivery require that sectors and institutions develop, document, disseminate and apply standards....

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Health%20Sector%20Service%20Standards%20%2...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 98 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Model List of Essential Medicines 2013

The core list presents a list of minimum medicine needs for a basic health��care system, listing the most efficacious, safe and cost��effective medicines for priority conditions. Priority conditions are selected on the basis of current and estimated future public health relevance, and potential for...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/WHO%20Model%20list%20of%20Essential%20Medi...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 94 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Lab Digest Newsletter issue 1, May 2019

Welcome to the first issue of The Lab Digest, a quarterly newsletter that brings you updates and insights from the world of laboratory and diagnostics, a brainchild of the department of National Health Laboratory and Diagnostic Services of the Ministry of Health.We are deeply delighted to have made...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20Lab%20Digest%20Newsletter%20MAY%2020...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 111 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidance for conducting an early action review (EAR): rapid performance improvement for outbreak detection and response

This guidance for conducting early action reviews (EARs) results from a shared vision of the importance of collective learning during and following a public health event. That vision, and the close collaboration that led to the development of these resources, is shared among the World Health Organiz...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/WHO-WPE-HSP-CER-2023.1-eng.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 14 hours ago 99 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidelines on Hospital Boards management for Referral Hospitals

This guideline provides a strategic vision and direction of the hospital on behalf of Ministry of health within the framework of health policy. It will ensure maximum efficiency and enable quick decision making.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 107 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Policy brief 2014

In recent years, visibility and political support for malaria has continued to increase dramatically. This policy brief is a summary of WHO��s recommended technical strategies to combat the disease. Its purpose is to present, in one concise document, a summary of WHO guidance that will assist countr...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/who-policy-brief-mar2014.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 97 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Community Health Extension Workers Strategy in Uganda (2015/16- 2019/20)

Despite major strides to improve the health of the population in the last 10 - 15 years, the health status of Ugandans remains relatively poor with high morbidity and mortality from preventable causes. The National Population and Housing Census 2014 show a life expectancy of 63.3 years and under fiv...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/chew-strategy-for-uganda-may-2016.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health system resilience
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 120 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (01 December 2020)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (01 December 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, N...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-01-december-2020/...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 89 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Resettlement Policy Framework For Uganda Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Improvement Project

Government of Uganda (GoU) with financing support from of World Bank (The Bank) plans to improve reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health from implementation of the Uganda Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Improvement Project (RMNCAH Project). The Project Development Object...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/MoH%20Resettlement%20Policy%20Framework%20...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 108 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Report: Expert and stakeholder virtual consultation meeting to develop the Africa CDC Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health Strategy

The meeting was organized by Africa CDC to bring all stakeholders together to reflect and provide recommendations on the key functional areas of the strategy development framework. The functional areas in which partnership, collaboration and health systems strengthening are needed for NCDs and menta...

https://africacdc.org/download/report-expert-and-stakeholder-virtual-consultation-meeting-to-develop...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 93 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Strategic Plan 2023 2027

Africa stands at a critical juncture, where the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic as well as Ebola and Monkeypox outbreaks underlined the need for increased self-reliance in our continent’s health systems. There is a shared recognition that Africa can and must do more to safeguard its healt...

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cdc-strategic-plan-2023-2027/?ind=1693660521057&filename=Afric...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 100 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Mastercard Foundation: Saving Lives and Livelihoods Newsletter, October 2022

Today, Rwanda has a 77 percent vaccination rate, surpassing the 70 percent target set by the WHO in 2021. Countries that have attained vaccination between 50 percent and 70 percent include Morocco at 61.9 percent, and Tunisia at 52.8 percent. Meanwhile, about 22.7 percent of the continent’s populati...

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cdc-mastercard-foundation-saving-lives-and-livelihoods-newslet...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 91 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The selection and use of essential in vitro diagnostics 1022

The second meeting of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on In Vitro Diagnostics (SAGE IVD) was held on 18-22 March 2019 at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20Selection%20and%20use%20of%20essenti...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 14 hours ago 102 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin Week 5: 27th Jan -2nd Feb 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 responding to public health events in the country on a weekly basis. In this issue, we brin...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Week_05_Epi_bulletin%202020.pdf
Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 14 hours ago 102 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 139: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 139: 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-139-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=16...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 98 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Management of Malaria in Pregnancy

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 95 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Management of Prolonged Active Labor

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Management%20of%20Prolonged%20active%20Lab...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 14 hours ago 93 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National policy on traditional medicine and regulation of herbal medicines

Traditionalȱ medicineȱ (TM)ȱ hasȱ alwaysȱ maintainedȱ itsȱ popularic

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 90 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Communiqu Directors of Africa Regional Institutions for the Continental World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021

We, the Africa Regional Directors of the AU, FAO, OIE, WHO, and UNEP, COMMIT TO: 1. Strengthen and accelerate implementation of previous commitments to tackle AMR including relevant resolutions of the governing bodies of the African Union, the Tripartite (WHO, FAO, OIE) and UNEP, and other relevant...

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Sub Theme:
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 94 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (15 December 2020)

A. Executive summary  Wajnberg et al. reported that robust neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 infection persist for months. The vast majority of infected individuals with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 experience robust immunoglobulin G antibody responses against the viral spike protein. Authors also...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-15-december-2020/...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 101 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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