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Mainstreaming HIV/ AIDS issues in to the poverty eradication action plan ( PEAP ) : Guidance for sector and PEAP revision teams

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how and why HIV should be considered in each of the PEAP pillars. It provides a set of core questions, which need to be considered in developing Sector PEAP Review Papers (SPRP) and the construction of each pillar as well as suggestions to help guide the...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
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Injection safety in the context of an EVD outbreak

This job aide is a description of the practices that should be in place to prevent the transmission of infections when�using injections.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Finding the Balance: Public health and social measures in Tunisia

The document titled Finding the Balance: Public health and social measures in Tunisia 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...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 126 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Report of the High-Level Ministerial Meeting | Partnerships to Accelerate COVID-19 Vaccination in Africa

Fast-tracking COVID-19 vaccine acquisition, delivery and uptake are critical to protecting lives and stimulating economic recovery. With only 15% of the African population reported to be fully vaccinated as of 16 March 2022, African Union (AU) Member States need to identify innovative and effective...

https://africacdc.org/download/report-of-the-high-level-ministerial-meeting-partnerships-to-accelera...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 112 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Malaria Status report Week 35, 2018

Confirmed Malaria cases per 1000: (Number of Malaria cases positive by microscopy and RDT/ district population )x 1000�Total Malaria cases per 1000. (Number of Confirmed + Presumed malaria cases) / district population)*1000 �Malaria Deaths: Number of Malaria deaths per week��% of Test Negative Treat...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Model Formulary 2008

In 1995, the WHO Expert Committee on the Use of Essential Drugs recommended that WHO develop a Model Formulary which would complement the WHO Model List of Essential Drugs (the ��Model List��). It was considered that such a WHO Model Formulary would be a useful resource for countries wishing to deve...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/WHO%20Model%20Formulary%202008.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 139 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Assessing Public Expenditure Governance in Uganda's Health Sector: The case of Gulu, Kamuli and Luwero districts

This research report is one of the policy analyses prepared by ACODE to assess the governance of public expenditure (hereafter, public expenditure governance or PEG) in Uganda��s health, road, education and agriculture sectors. The report is premised against the dimensions of governance elaborated i...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 130 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Nutrition Program Report - Monthly Health Facility, May 2023

This document is a statistical report highlighting the performance of the key nutrition program indicators for the month of May 2023.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 123 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda: Assessing Progress in Family Planning, 2021

The 2021 Progress Estimates on Family Planning Commitments and National Goals estimates were derived; In order to have an accurate representation of FP progress. The current data have been incorporated with the data that has been generated over the last few years in order to monitor the annual progr...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Country%20Progress%20Brief%20on%20Family%2...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Home Management, Critical Care and Discharge Criteria for COVID-19 Patients

The document titled Home Management, Critical Care and Discharge Criteria for COVID-19 Patients 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/home-management-critical-care-and-discharge-criteria-for-covid-19-pat...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 125 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Policy Guidelines 2017

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Policy Guidelines are designed to promote Mental Health and prevent Mental, Neurological and Substance use disorders among children and adolescents. These guidelines are a statement by the Government of Uganda to set a clear direction in development of Mental,...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Child%20and%20Adolescent%20Mental%20Health...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 151 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Lab Digest Newsletter issue 1, May 2019

Welcome to the first issue of The Lab Digest, a quarterly newsletter that brings you updates and insights from the world of laboratory and diagnostics, a brainchild of the department of National Health Laboratory and Diagnostic Services of the Ministry of Health.We are deeply delighted to have made...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 163 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Global status report on road safety 2018

The Global status report on road safety 2018, launched by WHO in December 2018, highlights that the number of annual road traffic deaths has reached 1.35 million. Road traffic injuries are now the leading killer of people aged 5-29 years. The burden is disproportionately borne by pedestrians, cyclis...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Global%20Status%20Report%20on%20Road%20Saf...
Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Disability and Rehabilitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 142 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The world health report 1999

Part One begins, in Chapter 1, by reviewing the dramatic decline in mortality in the 20th century. Income growth and improved educational levels - and consequent improvements in food intake and sanitation - have accounted for part of the mortality decline; but access to new knowledge, drugs and vacc...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 121 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Circular for Schools for Measles-Rubella and Polio Immunisation 2019

The purpose of this circular is for teachers to educate pupils about measles-Rubella and polio immunisation and to mobilize parents / caregivers to take their children for immunisation.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/MR%20-%20Circular%20for%20Schools.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 129 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidelines on the management of latent tuberculosis infection

These Guidelines on the management of latent tuberculosis infection were developed in accordance to the requirements and recommended process of the WHO Guideline Review Committee, and provide public health approach guidance on evidence-based practices for testing, treating and managing LTBI in infec...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Guidelines%20on%20Management%20of%20latent...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 153 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Alert Notification: New SARS-CoV-2 variant with multiple spike protein mutations

As of 21 December 2020, more than 300 genomes of the 501Y.V2 variant have been identified, all in South Africa. Preliminary analysis in South Africa (501Y.V2) and the UK (501Y) suggests that this variant is significantly more transmissible than previously circulating variants and potentially higher...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 112 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Where There Is No Dentist

A healthy tooth is a living part of the body. It is connected by ��life-lines�� of blood and nerve to a person��s heart and brain. To separate the tooth from the body, or even to interrupt those ��life-lines��, means death to the tooth. It also means pain and injury to the body, to the person

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Where%20there%20is%20no%20dentist.pdf
Theme: Emergency Preparedness
Sub Theme: Primary Health Care
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 139 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Meeting Report: United in the Fight Against Mpox in Africa High-level Emergency Regional Meeting

From April 11-13, 2024, a ‘High-Level Emergency Regional Meeting on Mpox in Africa’ was convened by Africa CDC in collaboration with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and multiple other partners, including CEPI, WHO, UNICEF, INSP, and US Government among others. This report highlights key findi...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations 3 Likes
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