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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: 27 Minutes ago 174 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Policy Brief on Enhancement of use of Cleint Service Charters

A customer/client service charter is a set of standards that an organisation promises to uphold when dealing with customers. A customer/client charter publically sets out a number of minimum standards that citizens/ clients should expect when accessing public services. The clients�� Charters greatly...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 hour ago 145 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Second National Development PLAN (NDPII) 2015/16 - 2019/20

This National Development Plan (NDPII) is the second in a series of six five-year Plans aimed at achieving the Uganda Vision 2040. The goal of this Plan is to propel the country towards middle income status by 2020 through strengthening the country��s competitiveness for sustainable wealth creation,...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Second%20National%20Development%20plan%202...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 156 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO global report on trends in prevalence of tobacco use 2000-2025

This report enables us to see for the first time that the number of people using tobacco in the world is declining, despite population growth. The number of male tobacco users, which previously was increasing every year, finally turned the corner in 2018 and is projected to decline each year from 20...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/WHO%20global%20report%20on%20trends%20in%2...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 132 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Access to Safe, Timely, and Affordable Surgical Care in Uganda: A Stratified Randomized Evaluation of Nationwide Public Sector Surgical Capacity and Core Surgical Indicators

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...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Access%20to%20safe%20surgery%20in%20UG%202...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 2 hours ago 124 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Surgical Care at the District Hospital

Surgical Care at the District Hospital provides a comprehensive guide to surgical procedures that are commonly performed at the district hospital. It is intentionally limited to emergency and very common problems and is not designed as a major textbook of surgery. The manual is presented in seven pa...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Surgical%20Care%20at%20the%20district%20ho...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 hour ago 130 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

AIDS and HIV Infection Information for United Nations Employees and Their Families

HIV and AIDS continue to affect the lives of millions around the world. But they are not faceless millions. Almost all of us know a friend, family member or co-worker who has been affected. In our work as United Nations employees, we also see at first hand how the pandemic is ravaging the developing...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/AIDS%20and%20HIV%20infection.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 days ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Human Resources For Health Strategic Plan 2020 - 2030

The purpose of this HRH Strategic plan is therefore to provide a framework for planning, developing and managing a well-performing health workforce in Uganda. It relates the health workforce with the current and future health needs, with emphasis on improved effectiveness and efficiency in the use o...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 19 Minutes ago 142 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Epidemic Intelligence Weekly Report, June 2024

Geographic Focus: Reports could either focus on events affecting single country or multiple countries.Inclusion criteria: While Africa CDC continues to track all public health events on the continent, this report highlights only moderate to very high-risk events (with new updates in the reporting we...

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cdc-weekly-event-based-surveillance-report-june-2024/?ind=1719...
Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 128 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 53: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 53: 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-53-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=161...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 113 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Diagnosis and management of severe falciparum malaria Learners Guide Communicable

This Learner's Guide, Part I of the module on the Diagnosis and Management of Severe Falciparum Malaria, is made up of teaching materials, problems and a picture quiz covering all the activities involved in diagnosing and managing severe falciparum malaria at the hospital level. This guide is based...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 137 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Positive Prevention Counseling : A Training Course for HIV/AIDS Counselors

This manual was developed for use within Uganda and to support Uganda government policies. Facilitators using this manual should be trained HIV counselors or HIV Counselor trainers who are recognized by the Ministry of Health, TASO, SCOT, MildMay, AIC and from any other recognized AIDS Service organ...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Positive%20Prevention%20Counseling.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 165 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The National Integrated Early Childhood Development Policy Action Plan (2016-2021) of Uganda

The plan presents an opportunity for the development of comprehensive, integrated, coordinated and multi-sectoral interventions to Early Childhood Development. It also provides guidance and elaborates strategies that Government and partners will employ to undertake the execution of the NIECD policy...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Integrated%20early%20childhood%...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Communicable disease control in emergencies A field manual

This manual is intended to help health professionals and public health coordinators working in emergency situations prevent, detect and control the major communicable diseases encountered by affected populations. Emergencies include complex emergencies and natural disasters (e.g. floods and earthqua...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Communicable%20disease%20control%20in%20Em...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 167 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2010

��No child should be born with HIV; no child should be an orphan because of HIV; no child should die due to lack of access to treatment,�� urged Ebube Sylvia Taylor, an eleven year old born free of HIV, to world leaders gathered in New York to share progress made towards achieving the Millennium Dev...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/UNAIDS%20Report%20on%20Global%20AIDS%20epi...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 137 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

New SARS-CoV-2 variants in Africa

Africa CDC is working with partners and Member States to: * Map the regional spread of the new variants in Africa through regional genomic surveillance; * Support laboratory centres of excellence to address the emerging SARS-CoV-2 sequencing needs of Member States and ensure availability of geograph...

https://africacdc.org/download/new-sars-cov-2-variants-in-africa/?ind=1611934597139&filename=New SAR...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 Minute ago 135 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidelines for the inpatient treatment of severely malnourished children

Every year some 10.6 million children die before they reach their fifth birthday. Seven out of every 10 of these deaths are due to diarrhoea, pneumonia, measles, malaria or malnutrition. The WHO manual Management of Severe Malnutrition: a manual for physicians and other senior health workers and the...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 151 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

State of World Population 2019

These two events��the launch of the first United Nations agency dedicated to addressing population growth and the reproductive health needs of the world��s people, and the declaration of a global commitment to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights��have fundamentally shaped the live...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/State%20of%20the%20World%20Population%2020...
Theme: Data Analytics
Sub Theme: Demographics
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 45 Minutes ago 155 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africas Leadership Role in the Development and Access to Potential COVID-19 Vaccine: Rapporteurs Report for Day Two

The document titled Africa’s Leadership Role in the Development and Access to Potential COVID-19 Vaccine: Rapporteur’s Report for Day Two offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challe...

https://africacdc.org/download/africas-leadership-role-in-the-development-and-access-to-potential-co...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 122 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Report on Midyear Health Sector Performance Review: (July to December) FY 2010/11

The review for the health sector performance for the first and second Quarters (July to December 2010/11 Financial Year) was conducted from 13th to 14th January 2011 at Kabira Country Club Hotel, Kampala. The general objective of the workshop was to assess the performance of the Ministry of Health d...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Report%20on%20Mid-year%20review%20of%20the...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 158 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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