Progress on Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) has produced regular estimates of global progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) since 1990. It has established an extensive global database and has been instrumental in developing global norms...

Tunisia: a primary health care case study in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

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Africa CDC Annual Report 2022

Thank you. January 2023.Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma Acting Director, Africa CDC

Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 33: 10th -16th Aug 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. This issue, we showcas...

Africa CDC COVID-19 Response Update, 31 May 2020

The document titled Africa CDC COVID-19 Response Update, 31 May 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...

HIV and Infant Feeding Counselling Tools

The fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) �� to reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate �� is ambitious, but achievable. Currently, more than 10 million children under five die each year, four million of them in the first month. It is estimated that around two-t...

The Analysis of the Nutrition Situation in Uganda May 2010

Adequate nutrition is an essential prerequisite for maintaining health status. The critical role nutrition plays in health and development warrants greater commitment to and investment in nutrition in Uganda. Moreover, such an investment is a necessary prerequisite for further progress on the Millen...

Internal Directive on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harrassment

2. The objective of this Internal Directive is to support Africa CDC’s commitment to the prevention of SEA and SH in its operations, programs and projects; and to taking appropriate measures in response to observed or alleged SEA and SH.

Uganda 2022 Progress Brief on Family Planning

Uganda 2022 Progress Brief on Family Planning, commitments and National Goals.

What is the Africa CDC?

The document titled What is the Africa CDC? 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, Western Africa,...

WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence 998

The thirty-seventh meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from 16 to 20 November 2015. Mr Cornelis de Joncheere, Director, WHO Department of Essential Medicines and Health Products (EMP), opened the meeting. He welcomed all participants on beh...

Africa Region Subject Matter Expert (Af-RSME) under the Regional Training and Certification Program for Biosafety and Biosecurity Professionals in the Africa Region

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiative was launched by the Africa CDC in April 2019 with the aim of strengthening the African Union (AU) Member States’ biosafety and biosecurity systems and enabling them to comply with national and int...

Outbreak Brief 41: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

As of 9 am East African Time (EAT) 27 October 2020, a total of 1,728,682 COVID-19 cases and 41,623 deaths (CFR: 2.4%) have been reported in 55 African Union (AU) Member States. This is 4% of all cases reported globally. Of the countries actively reporting COVID-19 epidemiologic data, thirteen countr...

Weekly Malaria Report - Epi Week 30

The weekly report is a statistical document demonstrating the performance of Malaria indicators at the different administrative levels of the health sector.

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin Week 43:21st-27th Oct 2019

During week 43, the country experienced low reporting rates �National rate was 81.2% compared 76.4% of week 42.�Central regional had 71.4% compared to 68.2% in week 42�Eastern region had 78.3% compared to 70.5% in week 42�Western region had 88.1% compared to 81.2% in week 42�Northern region had the...

Weekly Malaria Report

Malaria Weekly Report

Outbreak Brief 35: COVID-19 Pandemic 15 September 2020

As of 9am East African Time (EAT) 15 September 2020, a total of 1,359,724 COVID-19 cases and 32,795 deaths (CFR: 2.4%) have been reported in 55 African countries. This is 5% of all cases reported globally. Since the last brief, 53,567 new COVID-19 cases have been reported, which is no change from th...

Uganda Clinical Guidelines 2016

The Uganda Clinical Guidelines (UCG) evolved from the National Standard Treatment Guidelines 1993, which were the first of the type published in Uganda. Before then, individual guidelines existed to manage a limited number of specific conditions. The purpose of national standard treatment guidelines...

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.

Guidelines on Optimal feeding of low birth weight infants in low-and middle-income countries 2011

Low birth weight (LBW) has been defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as weight at birth less than 2500 g. The global prevalence of LBW is 15.5%, which means that about 20.6 million such infants are born each year, 96.5% of them in developing countries. There is significant variation in LBW...