The WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations met in Geneva from 14 to 18 October 2013. Dr M.-P. Kieny, Assistant Director-General of Health Systems and Innovation at the World Health Organization (WHO), welcomed participants on behalf of the Director-General. Dr Kieny t...
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 sa...
This manual was developed by the Pharmacy Division, Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Securing Ugandans�� Right to Essential Medicines (SURE) Program with assistance from health workers representing all levels of care. The purpose of this manual is to provide health workers with a refere...
The National TB and Leprosy Strategic Plan (NSP) 2020/21 - 2024/25, is in line with Global and National commitments and represents a new approach to the elimination of TB and Leprosy.
The document titled Outbreak Brief 124: 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...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 12: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic 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 Africa, Wester...
In the bit to improve healthcare service delivery in the country, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has focused its efforts on improving the management of its human resource i.e. Health Workers (HW). This is being achieved through the use of quality of Health Workforce data generated from the Human Resou...
Uganda is faced with frequent outbreaks of emerging diseases and high burden of other endemic conditions, including cholera, all of which require dedicated resources for their prevention and control. However, like many developing countries, Uganda is resource constrained, has an inadequate health de...
The document titled Global MediXChange for combating COVID-19: the experience of China 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, Norther...
The document titled African Antibiotic Treatment Guidelines for Common Bacterial Infections and Syndromes – Final Report offers a comprehensive insight into Antimicrobial Resistance Control, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central...
The document titled AU Heads of State and Government endorse African common position on controlling Antimicrobial Resistance offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within C...
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...
When modern medicine was introduced in Uganda by Dr Albert Cook in 1897,the colonial government enacted instruments to guide the profession by 1933. The profession has since undergone several acts. Currently council is being guided by UMDPC Act 1998.
The 5S Quality Improvement (QI) Training Guide comes to address the current gap of inadequacy of the required materials for developing capacity towards improved implementation of 5S and QI in the country. There is increasing demand towards sharing knowledge to fulfil ability and one potential to per...
The Guide emphasises practical teaching, projects and acquisition of skills by the learner. The competences that learners are expected to acquire are clearly spelt out in each Module Unit covered in the Semester. ��You�� should ensure that learners are well versed with practical work. The teaching m...
A. Executive summary ● Two studies report on a possibility of in-flight transmission of SARS-COV-2 over long commercial flights among passengers and flight attendants. The studies suggest that guidelines for preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection among passengers should consider individual passengers’ risk...
As the Covid-19 pandemic got under way, the world�had been reaching unprecedented heights on the�Human Development Index (HDI). People were, on�average, living healthier, wealthier and better lives�for longer than ever. But under the surface a growing�sense of insecurity had been taking root. An est...
In 2007, the World Health Assembly passed a Resolution titled ��Better Medicines for Children��. This resolution recognized the need for research and development into medicines for children, including better dosage forms, better evidence and better information about how to ensure that medicines or t...
This is the report of the Sixth Meeting of Directors, Commissioners and Undersecretaries Forum which took place at the Office of the President, Conference Hall on 5th November 2019. The purpose of the meeting was information sharing, knowledge and experience exchange, and peer learning for improved...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 82: 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...
