As of 9 am EAT 12 May 2020, a total of 66,373 COVID-19 cases and 2,336 (CFR: 4%) deaths have been reported in 53 African countries. This is about 2% of all cases reported globally.
The document titled Outbreak Brief 98: 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...
"Ebola threatens everything that makes us human," says Bruce Aylward of World Health Organisation. With calm measure, Bruce walks us through how the Ebola epidemic exploded.
Globally, breastfeeding has the potential to prevent about 800 000 deaths among children under five each year if all children 0-23 months were optimally breastfed. Early initiation of breastfeeding could prevent about one fifth of neonatal deaths, but less than half of infants are put to the breast...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – 31 March 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, North...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (02 March 2021) 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, Nort...
The Comprehensive Health Service standards Manual aims to ensure that patients and service users receive comprehensive health care that meets their individual needs, and considers the impact of their health issues on their life and wellbeing. It furthermore aims to ensure that risks of harm for pati...
The Eye Care Guidelines aim to provide easy to use, practical, complete and useful information on how to correctly diagnose and manage the seventeen common eye conditions in Uganda. These guidelines are to complement what is in the UCGs based on the fact that the eye is a very delicate organ and the...
This manual is intended to provide process evaluation technical assistance to OSH staff, grantees and partners. It defines process evaluation and describes the rationale, benefits, key data collection components, and program evaluation management procedures. It also discusses how process evaluation...
Uganda like many of the developing countries is faced by a number of human resource challenges. An analysis of the HRH situation reveals an HRH crisis in the country characterized by a critical shortage of health workers with nearly 50% of the districts operating below 50% of the approved staffing e...
The document titled Promoting mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A policymaker’s guide 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,...
This document is a statistical report of malaria activities that occurred across the country during the seventh epidemiological week of the year 2024.
The document titled Outbreak Brief 72: 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 Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Liberia 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...
In week 10 of 2016, all 112 (100%) districts reported. Average reporting rate was maintained at 74.4%. 10 districts had (100%) all of their health facilities reporting; 53 districts (47%) achieved the national target of 80% reporting. Only one (1) districts had less than 30% of the health facilities...
The meeting was organized by Africa CDC to bring all stakeholders together to reflect and provide recommendations on the key functional areas of the strategy development framework. The functional areas in which partnership, collaboration and health systems strengthening are needed for NCDs and menta...
The raifall outlook for October indicates that most parts of Western,Central and parts of West Nile are likely to receive enhanced rainfall, while the rest of the country is likely to receive moderate rainfall conditions
This issue focuses on the third quarter of 2019/2020 financial year. The aim of this bulletin is to inform district, national, and global stake-holders on progress achieved and challenges encountered in malaria control and reduction in Uganda. Most importantly, it is to encourage use of this informa...
The serious consequences of malaria in pregnancy are attributed to the sequestration of malaria parasites in the placenta, leading to impeded trans-placental nutrient transport. This, combined with malaria-induced anaemia, compromises foetal growth and results in low birth weight and a subsequent in...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 139: 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...
