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Malaria Weekly update report for week 13, 2018

The Uganda Weekly Malaria status update is produced by National Malaria Control Program, WHO Country Office and Uganda Malaria Surveillance Project on a weekly basis to guide planning. This Status update uses weekly surveillance data

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 107 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Strategic Framework: Strengthening Cross-Border Surveillance and Information Sharing in Africa

The African Union Member States (AU MS) face significant health threats, particularly infectious diseases, due to its overstretched public health systems and infrastructure. Despite Its remarkable improvements and growth in health sector service delivery in recent times, the African continent remain...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 133 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Report of an Emergency Meeting of Africa Ministers of Health on the COVID-19 Outbreak

The document titled Report of an Emergency Meeting of Africa Ministers of Health on the COVID-19 Outbreak 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, S...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 129 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Primary Screening tool

Primary Screening is to assess potential EVD symptoms before entering a health facility.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/EVD%20Primary%20Screening%20tool_0.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 128 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents prenatally infected with HIV in Uganda

The rapid roll-out of anti-retroviral treatment programs has made it possible for perinatally infected infants to live through adolescence and adulthood, thereby engaging in dating and sexual relationships. However, the sexual and reproductive health needs of this unique and rapidly increasing popul...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 143 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO child growth standards and the identification of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children

Using weight-for-height: WHO and UNICEF recommend the use of a cut-off for weight-forheight of below -3 standard deviations (SD) of the WHO standards to identify infants and children as having SAM. The commonly used cut-off is the same cut-off for both the new 2006 WHO child growth standards (WHO st...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/WHO%20Child%20growth%20Standards%20and%20t...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 19 hours ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 81: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 81: 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 A...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-81-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=162...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 122 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Mastercard Foundation: Saving Lives and Livelihoods Newsletter, October 2023

Currently, 14 African Union Member States have vaccinated at least 70 percent of their eligible populations with the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the WHO Tanzania and São Tomé and Príncipe have fully vaccinated their populations, while Botswana has immunized 94 percent of theirs Mauritius, Seychel...

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: 4 days ago 117 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Performance Management Implementation Guidelines for Health Sector 2015

Uganda has over the last three decades undertaken several administrative reforms in the public sector, designed mainly to improve efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery. In the area of performance management, a number of initiatives have been undertaken to establish an effective performanc...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 130 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Electronic Health Information Management System (eHMIS) User Acceptance Testing Report

This submission reports the proceedings from the mTracPro user acceptance testing and DHIS2 integration activity conducted in Ntungamo district between 21st January - 1st February, 2019. The activity aimed at assessing user acceptance of mTracPro in a real working environment. It attracted a multitu...

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Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 143 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Levels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2019

Tremendous progress in child survival has been made over the past two decades. The total number of deaths among children and young adolescents under 15 years of age dropped by 56 per cent from 14.2 (14.0, 14.5)1 million in 1990 to 6.2 (6.0, 6.7) million in 2018. Still, one child or young adolescent...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 125 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin week 12, 16th22nd Mar 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...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Establishing the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention: the upside of a crisis

The document titled Establishing the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention: the upside of a crisis 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 Afri...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 109 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

World Health Statistics 2016

This report brings together the most recent data on the proposed health and selected health-related SDG indicators - to assess the current situation and describe crucial data gaps. In the current absence of official goal-level indicators, summary measures of health such as (healthy) life expectancy...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 8 hours ago 133 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Strengthening and Establishing National Public Health Institutes as Part of a Network of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

The document titled Strengthening and Establishing National Public Health Institutes as Part of a Network of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention offers a comprehensive insight into Administration, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health ch...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 18 hours ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

World Health Statistics 2019

World health statistics 2019 summarizes recent trends and levels in life expectancy and causes of death (Section 1) and reports on the health and health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets (Sections 2-8) It then summarizes the major findings, including the availabilit...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/World%20Health%20Statistics%202019.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 16 hours ago 126 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

NHA Book Inserts

This report presents the National Health Accounts for Uganda covering the FY 2014/15 and 2015/16 The uniqueness of this NHA is that it also contains the analysis of household health expenditure based on the UDHS 2016 report. Uganda has committed herself to the achievement of SDGs and this has necess...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/NHA%20Book-Inserts-1.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation : Intersections between public health, intellectual property and trade

This study follows on from the 2002 study entitled WTO Agreements and Public Health: A Joint Study by the WHO and the WTO Secretariat. This earlier study examined the linkages between trade and health policies in general to enable trade officials and health officials to better understand and monitor...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 106 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Pharmaceutical Sector Strategic Plan iii 2015-2020

The third National Pharmaceutical Sector Strategic Plan 2015/16-2019/20 (NPSSP III) has been developed to support the implementation of the National Medicines Policy (NMP) 2015. The NPSSP III was developed through wide consultations with diverse stakeholders including representatives from the privat...

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Theme: Prevention
Sub Theme: Pharmaceuticals and Drugs
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 126 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Women and the Tobacco Epidemic Challenges for the 21st Century

Identifying issues and problems in the occupational health of women remains a challenge. Much of women's work remains unrecognised, uncounted and unpaid: work in the home, in agriculture, food production and the marketing of home-made products, for example. Within the paid labour force, women are di...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 18 hours ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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