The document titled African Global Health: an initiative committed to achieving Health Sovereignty in the Global South offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, North...
The document titled Statement on the Efficacy of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) against the SARS-CoV-2 Variants offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges w...
The Standardisation Guide presents several digital health (DH) artefacts including; digital health Standards, digital health Enterprise...
The African Centre for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (ACTV) is humbled to present to you the 2015. Annual Report that gives an account of the activities undertaken by ACTV from January 2015 to December 2015. It reflects on the lessons learnt in the period, the challenges faced and...
This Weekly Malaria Report is a representation of the different malaria activities across the various administrative levels of the health sector.
This was the first participatory review of public policies. It took place at Office of the President Cabinet Library on 16th April, 2019. The purpose of the participatory review was to assess effectiveness and relevance of the National Land Policy, National Health Policy and National Trade Policy. T...
* The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) * Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) * United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) * United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Africa CDC would like to express its great appreciations to the African Soc...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 104: 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...
This Framework offers a coherent approach for eliminating tuberculosis (TB) in low-incidence countries. It is designed to guide national policy-makers and those responsible for technical aspects of the national TB response in accelerating efforts towards elimination. The document will also be inform...
When injected with the vaccine, the body responds to the germ proteins in the vaccine by producing specific antibodies that attach to the proteins and prepare the body to fight infection by the germ. When the real germ then infects the body, the antibodies attach to proteins on the surface of the ge...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – 14 April 2020 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, Northe...
The Statistical Abstract is an annual publication compiled by Uganda Bureau of Statistics, which provides the statistical summary on various socio-economic indicators for Uganda. Some figures in this edition may vary from those in the earlier editions due to the updates. Note that most of the 2015 a...
Uganda has made major progress over the last two decades to move towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Significant reform efforts include establishing a well-defined essential package of health services, improving the financing of healthcare by introducing free health services in public hospitals...
Despite marked advancement in prevention, care and treatment, HIV in Uganda continues to exert severe constraints on the public health and economic well-being of a sizeable proportion of the population. The type of HIV epidemic in Uganda is described as severe, mature, and generalized but with sub-e...
Currently, Mauritius and Seychelles have 85 and 82 percent vaccination rates, respectively, surpassing the 70 percent target set by the WHO in 2021. Countries that have attained vaccination rates of between 50 and 70 percent include Liberia at 67 percent, Rwanda at 66 percent, Morocco at 62 percent,...
Uganda has a mature generalised HIV epidemic with prevalence exceeding 6% and an estimated one million people living with HIV1. Sub-national longitudinal studies2 and indirect estimates3 indicate a rising rate of new infections with HIV incidence ranging from 0.2-2.0% in different regions of the cou...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 40: 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...
The document titled COVID-19 Pandemic Response Initiatives 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 Africa, Southern Africa, W...
About the Project In 2023, 166 outbreaks and public health events were reported in Africa. This calls for a resilient laboratory systems for timely detection and reporting of current and future outbreaks. This project aims to scale up molecular diagnostic and genomic sequencing-based detection and c...
The guidelines are based on principles of scientific evidence, cost-effectiveness�and prioritization of conditions to maximize the health benefit�with limited resources.�The regular update of clinical guidelines and essential medicines lists�is one of the key interventions in the Health Sector Devel...
