Access to safe surgery is critical to health, welfare, and economic development. In 2015, the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery recommended that all countries collect surgical indicators to lend insight into improving surgical care. No nationwide high-quality data exist for these metrics in Uganda...
The President Of The United Republic Of Tanzania Issued A Notice On Assignment Of Ministerial Responsibilities (Ins...
The 2018 Local Government Performance Assessment (LG PA) Report is the second edition under the new Local Government Assessment framework. The assessment was conducted between September-October 2018 with involvement of the Local Government Performance Assessment Task force, Ministries, Departments a...
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...
Reporting rate this week (83.5%) is slightly less than that reported the previous week, 2019W26 (84.9%) There was an increase in malaria morbidity this week. There were over 13,000 moremalaria cases this week (253,973) compared to 240,806 the previous week. About 7.8% (10/128) of districts reported...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 were adopted by the United Nations in 2015. One of the targets is to end the global TB epidemic. The WHO End TB Strategy, approved by the World Health Assembly in 2014, calls for a 90% reduction in TB deaths and an 80% reduction in the TB incidence r...
Fifty percent of Uganda's population is under 15 years of age. The Universal Primary Education Programme has enabled 7 million children, which is over 30% of the entire population, to be in school. When Universal Secondary Education is introduced,the number of children in school could rise to 9 mill...
Gender equality is fundamental to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. But to focus our efforts in the right arenas, track progress over time and hold each other accountable, we need transparent data and analysis. That is why this report is an important milestone. Thanks to the efforts of Gl...
Health workers are central to improving health system performance. According to the Annual Health Sector Performance Report (2016) public sector health facility staffing was 71% and PNFP staffing was 73%. The health workers in the PNFP sector are mainly comprised of support or para-clinical staff. S...
These guidelines provide guidance on definition of sexual harassment; applicable legal and policy frameworks; and outline strategies for prevention and response services and implementation mechanism for addressing sexual harassment in the health sector. The guidelines also provide detailed response...
The Corona Virus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) has continued to spread across the world leaving death and economic devastation in its wake. Although the number of confirmed cases in Uganda remain very low in comparison to other countries, the containment adopted to curb the spread of the virus have affect...
Joint Medical Store (JMS) is a private-not-for-profit organization that was established in 1979 by the Uganda Catholic and Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau to supply medicines and health supplies to its network of over 600 health facilities. As one of their strategies to increase access to essential...
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...
This report is about what the ministry of health has done, is doing and will do in the nearby future.
The Africa CDC Western Africa RCC Public Health Resources Dashboard provides a centralized, interactive overview of critical public health resources across the Western African region. Designed to support evidence-based decision-making, this dashboard enables public health professionals to assess...
Reporting rate this week (66.6%) remained at a similar rate from the pre-vious week, 2018 W52 (64.8%) There was a slight increase in the reported malaria cases to 58,822 in 2019W1 as compared to 57,435 in 2018 W52. Adjumani & Moyo Districts with confirmed incidence rates ��10 cases per 1,000 populat...
We are pleased to share with you our 38th weekly epidemiological bulletin. This weekly epidemiological bulletin serves to inform all stakehold-ers at district, national, and global levels on disease trends, public health surveillance and interventions undertaken in detecting, pre-venting and respond...
The document titled Core Values of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) 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, South...
Ministry of Health on February 11th, 2019, through a Ministerial Order No :004/2019 established a Steering Committee (SC) and Technical Working Group (TWG) for establishment of South Sudan...
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...
