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Guidance for Strengthening Non-Communicable Diseases, Injuries and Mental Health Surveillance Systems

Non-communicable diseases, injuries, and mental health conditions (NCDI/MH) are substantial diseases and economic threats across African Union (AU) Member States (MS). The conditions are estimated to disable and prematurely end millions of lives across Africa each year. They constitute a serious imp...

https://africacdc.org/download/guidance-for-strengthening-non-communicable-diseases-injuries-and-men...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Injuries and Mental Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 42 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Statement on the Efficacy of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) against the SARS-CoV-2 Variants

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...

https://africacdc.org/download/statement-on-the-efficacy-of-the-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-chadox1...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 39 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin week 10, 2nd8th Mar 2020

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...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 hours ago 33 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Statement on COVID-19 and the training of healthcare professionals in Africa

Healthcare workforce development is critical to meeting Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3) and other health-related SDGs and to achieve universal healthcare coverage (UHC)2(p3) in Africa. The COVID-19 pandemic further compounds the already ill equipped, under-staffed strained, and over-stretched...

https://africacdc.org/download/statement-on-covid-19-and-the-training-of-healthcare-professionals-in...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 42 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Cancer Control Policy and Advocacy

Cancer is a leading cause of death globally. The World Health Organization estimates that 7.6 million people died of cancer in 2005 and 84 million people will die in the next 10 years if action is not taken. More than 70% of all cancer deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, where resource...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Cancers
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 44 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Monthly Malaria Surveillance Status Report - JULY 2023

This document is�a Malaria�Surveillance Status�Report for the month of July 2023.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 38 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (13 April 2022)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (13 April 2022) 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,...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-13-april-2022/?in...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 36 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

International Health Regulations

The International Health Regulations (“the IHR” or “Regulations”) were adopted by the Health Assembly in 1969, having been preceded by the International Sanitary Regulations adopted by the Fourth World Health Assembly in 1951. The 1969 Regulations, which initially covered six “quarantinable diseases...

https://africacdc.org/download/international-health-regulations/?ind=1566994219623&filename=Internat...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 35 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Recommendations for Stepwise response to COVID-19

This document provides a high-level mapping of outbreak stages with guidance on how to time the minimum uptake of different interventions that have been recommended by Africa CDC, driven by evidence and science.

https://africacdc.org/download/recommendations-for-stepwise-response-to-covid-19/?ind=1585321518624&...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 45 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Public health dimension of the world drug problem

Drug use, drug use disorders and related health conditions are major public health concerns. According to WHO��s latest estimates for 2015, psychoactive drug use is responsible for more than 450 000 deaths per year. The drug-attributable disease burden accounts for about 1.5% of the global burden of...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Public%20Health%20dimension%20of%20the%20g...
Theme: Prevention
Sub Theme: Pharmaceuticals and Drugs
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 48 Minutes ago 41 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Ministry of Health Clients Charter 2012/13 - 2014/15

The Clients Charter was introduced under the Public Service Reform Programme, as a tool to strengthen the demand side of accountability for service delivery. In this regard, the clients charter has been embranced in the health sector. This charter spells out the roles, responsibilities and commitme...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/CLIENT%20CHARTER%202012-13-2014-15.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 35 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Management of Secondary Postpartum Haemorrhage

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Management%20of%20Secondary%20PPH.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 38 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Report on the State of Regional Referral Hospitals in Uganda Towards the Realisation of the Right to Health

Although General Hospitals, Regional and National Referral Hospitals have continued to make major contributions to essential clinical care in Uganda, numerous reports (including those of the MoH) are awash with the stark reality of lack of drugs, absence of the often inadequate health workers, delay...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Report_on_the_State_of_Regional_Refferal_H...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 40 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 37: 7th-13th SEP 2020

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 Uganda on a weekly basis. In this issue, we showcase...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 36 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Anthrax in humans and animals

Anthrax essentially ceased to be regarded as a disease of major health or economic importance after the enormous successes of Max Sterne��s veterinary vaccine developed in the 1930s, and subsequent analogs in the former Soviet Union, in dramatically reducing the incidence of the disease in livestock...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Anthrax%20in%20humans%20and%20Animals%2020...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 36 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Global Nutrition Report 2014

This report highlights the global nature of malnutrition and the successes and bottlenecks in addressing it. Malnutrition continues to affect the lives of millions of children and women worldwide. Every country is affected by some form of nutrition problem. This calls for countries to put in place a...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Global%20Nutrition%20Report%202014%281%29....
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 34 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Childrens Health Status in Uganda

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...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Children%27s%20health%20status%20in%20Ugan...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 33 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Bulletin pidmiologique mensuel des maladies potentiel pidmique et autres urgences de sant publique, Juin 2023

Rougeole *Sources : Bulletins SIMR et Sitreps des États membresSur la base des données de surveillance disponibles de SE 22 à SE 25, 14 714 cas suspects et 245 décès ont été notifiés dans 8 pays : Angola (456), Burundi (111), Cameroun (864), Congo (49), Gabon (12), RCA (222), RDC (12 410) et Tchad (...

https://africacdc.org/download/bulletin-epidemiologique-mensuel-des-maladies-a-potentiel-epidemique-...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Disease Control and Prevention
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 32 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

How to integrate water, sanitation and hygiene into HIV programmes

This document is the first comprehensive guide to integrating WASH practices into HIV care. It was written in response to requests from countries and programmes for clear instruction on how to develop care programmes at the national level. It contains guidance on implementing priority WASH practices...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/How%20to%20integrate%20water%2C%20sanitati...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Environmental Health and Sanitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 40 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Annual Progress Report 2019

The document titled Africa CDC Annual Progress Report 2019 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cdc-annual-progress-report-2019/?ind=1597170527560&filename=15...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 37 Minutes ago 42 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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