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Outbreak Brief 24: COVID-19 Pandemic 30 June 2020

As of 9 am EAT 30 June 2020, a total of 393,305 COVID-19 cases and 9,879 (CFR: 2.5%) deaths have been reported in 54 African countries. This is 3.9% of all cases reported globally. Since the last brief (23 June 2020), 77,895 new COVID-19 cases have been reported, which is a 25% increase compared to...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-24-covid-19-pandemic-30-june-2020/?ind=1594208174621&f...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 20 hours ago 30 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africas Leadership Role in the Development and Access to Potential COVID-19 Vaccine: Rapporteurs Report for Day Two

The document titled Africa’s Leadership Role in the Development and Access to Potential COVID-19 Vaccine: Rapporteur’s Report for Day Two offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challe...

https://africacdc.org/download/africas-leadership-role-in-the-development-and-access-to-potential-co...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 18 hours ago 27 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 58: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 58: 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-58-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=161...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 hour ago 35 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 66: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 66: 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-66-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=161...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 20 hours ago 29 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...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20Lab%20Digest%20Newsletter%20MAY%2020...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 48 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Cancer prevention and control in the context of an integrated approach : Report

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...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Information%20Technology%20Policy%20for%20...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Cancers
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 30 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Compendium of Concepts and Definitions on Gender Statistics

Harmonization of concepts, definitions and terminologies is a prerequisite for quality statistics, and there is an urgent need for such action in Gender Statistics to increase its coherence and comparability. Uganda Bureau of Statistics periodically produces a Compendium of Statistical Concepts and...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Compendium%20of%20Concepts%20and%20Definit...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 20 hours ago 51 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Global Tuberculosis report 2016.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 were adopted by the United Nations in 2015. One of the targets is to end the global TB epidemic. The WHO End TB Strategy, approved by the World Health Assembly in 2014, calls for a 90% reduction in TB deaths and an 80% reduction in the TB incidence r...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Global%20Tuberculosis%20Report%202016.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 28 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 108: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 108: 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-108-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=16...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 30 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

First steps for managing an outbreak of acute diarrhea

This publication is basically about how the outbreak of acute diarrhoea can be handled.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Managing%20an%20outbreak%20of%20Acute%20di...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 6 hours ago 36 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Management of Fetal Distress Without Cord Prolapse

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Management%20of%20Fetal%20Distress%20witho...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 14 hours ago 37 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

UGANDA HEALTH ACCOUNTS

This National Health Accounts report describes the health care system from an expenditure perspective. The health expenditure data can be used to improve access, equity, efficiency, and financial risk protection as part of the national effort to bring services closer to the citizens and accelerate t...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/NHA-%20FINAL%20REPORT%202012-13-13-14.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 40 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

World Health Statistics Monitoring Health for the SDGs 2018

The World Health Statistics series is WHO��s annual compilation of health statistics for its 194 Member States. The series is produced by the WHO Department of Information, Evidence and Research, of the Health Metrics and Measurement Cluster, in collaboration with all relevant WHO technical departme...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/World%20Health%20Statistics%20Monitoring%2...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 1 day ago 28 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Change package for Improving Uptake and Continuity on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)

This change package is written to scale up best practices on improved uptake and continuity of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). It details the specific gap, changes tested to address the gap, evidence that it worked, and how the change was implemented. The changes were tested within the context of f...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/PrEP%20change%20package%20Aug%2010%202023....
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 20 hours ago 32 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Impact of HIV/AIDS on the Education Sector in Uganda

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Uganda has had far reaching consequences not only for individuals, families and communities, but also for the country as a whole. In the education sector, the epidemic has emerged as a major threat to achieving Education for All (EFA) goals. The national success in the fight...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20Impact%20of%20HIV-AIDS%20on%20the%20...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 6 hours ago 33 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Global Health 50/50 Report 2018

The report shows that, although gender is one of the most significant social determinants of health outcomes, the global health community remains largely gender-blind. This holds true both in ensuring gender parity in leadership across public, private and civil society organisations and in deliverin...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Global%20health%20Report-2018_Final.pdf
Theme: Emergency Preparedness
Sub Theme: Primary Health Care
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 34 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

How Joint Medical Stores cut its distribution costs

Door-to-door delivery services: How Joint Medical Stores cut its distribution costs

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/JMS%20success%20story%20to%20print.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Supply Chain Management
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 35 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Health Management Information Systems Rapid Needs Assesment For the Teso Region Districts of Bukedea, Kumi, Soroti, Amuria, Katakwi, Kaberamaido

trengthened health systems form the bedrock for sustainable evidence based interventions against communicable diseases in Africa. Despite that, there is mounting evidence to show that several African nations are failing to maximize on the opportunities offered by the unprecedented amount of resource...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/HMIS%2C%20Rapid%20assessment%20for%20the%2...
Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 18 hours ago 32 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Monitoring and Evaluation of COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Diagnostic Test Rollout in Africa

Africa CDC, African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) and partners have developed a training curriculum to facilitate the implementation of Ag-RDT for detection of SARS-CoV-2 (https://aslm.org/courses/covid-19-antigen-training-materials/). These training materials are being used by Member State...

https://africacdc.org/download/monitoring-and-evaluation-of-covid-19-rapid-antigen-diagnostic-test-r...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 40 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

African Union and the Africa CDCs Africa Regulatory Taskforce has endorsed the Emergency Used Authorization for Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine

The document titled African Union and the Africa CDC’s Africa Regulatory Taskforce has endorsed the Emergency Used Authorization for Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses cr...

https://africacdc.org/download/african-union-and-the-africa-centers-for-disease-control-and-preventi...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 34 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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