South western, West Nile, Teso and Elgon: The regions are under favourable crop and pasture conditions due to early onset of SOND rainfall. Above average rainfall is expected across the regions, a condition which will lead to improved yields if optimal rains persists up to the end of the season. Wee...
Every day, tens of thousands of girls have their health, rights and futures stolen. Some are subjected to female genital mutilation. Some are forced into ��marriages�� as children, and still others are neglected or starved, simply because they are female.
Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been pushing for universal health coverage. According to WHO, the goal of universal health coverage is to ensure that all people obtain the health services they need without suffering financial hardship by having to incur out of pocket expenses to pa...
Reducing maternal mortality by 75% is the Millennium Development Goal 5a. To reach this goal, countries need an accurate picture of the causes and levels of maternal deaths. However, efforts to document the progress in decreasing maternal mortality must make adjustments for inconsistencies in countr...
Malaria infection during pregnancy is a major public health problem, with substantial risks for the mother, her fetus and the newborn. In areas with moderate to high transmission of Plasmodium falciparum, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a package of interventions for controlling malar...
Summary of the Malaria indicators for week 27 (4 July - 10 July 2022)
The reporting rate decreased to 71.2% this week from 73.2% in last week. A total of 141,835 malaria confirmed cases were reported, a decrease by 0.3% from 142,303 last week. Test positivity rate this week was 52.3% compared to 51.6% last week. The highest Test positivity rates were reported in Buteb...
Family planning (FP) is an essential component of health care provided during the antenatal period, immediately after delivery and during the first year postpartum (WHO 2009). Postpartum family planning (PPFP) is defined as the prevention of unintended pregnancy and closely spaced pregnancies throug...
The proportion of health facilities that reported this week was 75.5% which signifies a 19.1% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2015. Only 12.1% (14/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 44% (51/116) of the districts achieved the national target...
This document is intended to provide guidance to non-specialist doctors providing obstetric and contraceptive surgery and the necessary anaesthetic services in small hospitals that are subject to constraints on personnel, equipment and drugs and where access to specialist services is limited.
The fast-changing COVID-19 landscape thrust the AU and Africa CDC into a pivotal leadership role at a time when global health governance failed to deliver equitably. The AU and Africa CDC acted out of necessity to mitigate the impact of leaving the most vulnerable populations and places in a cycle o...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 43: 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...
This manual represents the revised and updated edition of the Essential Medicines and Health Supplies�(EMHS) Management Manual, following its initial publication in 2012. The Department of�Pharmaceuticals and Natural Medicines (DPNM) of the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with�development partn...
This paper studies trends and determinants of children's standardized heights, a good overall measure of children's health status, in Uganda over the 1990s. During this period, Uganda made impressive strides in economic growth and poverty reduction (Appleton, 2001). However, there is concern that im...
This study demonstrates the relevance of tobacco control in achieving each of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals. It outlines the occurrence of the high yet increasing prevalence of tobacco use in the developing world, and documents the negative impact that tobacco cultivation and...
This epidemiological bulletin serves to inform all stakeholders at district, national, and global levels on disease trends, public health�surveillance and interventions undertaken in detecting, preventing and responding to public health events in the country on a weekly basis. In this issue, we brin...
The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) developed its first Strategic Plan for Statistics (SPS I) in 2006 to cover the period 2006/07 - 2011/12 while the second one (USP II) was developed in 2012 to cover the period 2013/14 - 2017/18. The UBOS SPS II constitutes one of the building blocks of Uganda��...
1. A significant component of Africa CDC’s work is undertaken through projects implemented directly by Africa CDC or through Implementing, Partners. While the objectives of projects are aimed at producing positive impacts, they may also give rise to uncertainties, unintended consequences or action...
Uganda has developed a National HIV Prevention Strategy to guide national efforts in the next phase of HIV prevention in the country in order to significantly reduce new HIV infections by about 30% by 2015. This, in line with the targets in the NDP would result in 40% reduction of the projected numb...
Progress in cancer control has been uneven. In spite of known effective interventions, the burden of cervical cancer, for example, remains greatest in low- and middle-income countries, where progress has been the slowest. While there have been moderate improvements in age-standardized cancer mortali...
