The document titled Guidance on Environmental decontamination 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...
Headache disorders are among the most common disorders of the nervous system, causing substantial ill-health and disability in populations throughout the world. Despite this, they are underestimated in scope and scale, and there is little recognition of their public-health impact. It is not known ho...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (14 July 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...
This executive summary of the International Symposium on Gender-Sensitive Medicine, organized by the WHO Centre for Health Development (WHO Kobe Centre - WKC) in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, on 1 March 2003, is based on material derived from the preparation, documentation, programme of work, deliberatio...
In 2009, Uganda received support from the Global Program for Reproductive Health Commodity Security (GPRHCS) to assist the�Ministry of Health in developing a national strategy. The strategy focused on logistics management to improve the functionality of the national and district Reproductive Health...
In summary, these recommendations are a response to the unquestionable dangers of exposure to SHS, as well as to the opportunity to assist the WHO FCTC implementation process and provide guidance to the growing number of jurisdictions interested in becoming smoke-free.
Joint Medical Store (JMS) is a private-not-for-profit organization that was established in 1979 by the Uganda Catholic and Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau to supply medicines and health supplies to its network of over 600 health facilities. As one of their strategies to increase access to essential...
Global targets for reducing the epidemiological burden of tuberculosis (TB) - measured as incidence, prevalence and mortality - have been set for 2015 within the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and by the Stop TB Partnership. The targets are that the TB incidence rate should be fa...
We are pleased to share our 52nd weekly epidemiological bulletin for the year 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 respond...
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 2006 UDHS was the fourth in the series that started in 1988. The primary objective of this survey was to provide up-to-date information for policy makers, planners, researchers and program managers, to use in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of population and health progra...
In accordance with operative paragraph 3(8) of resolution WHA69.10 (2016), the DirectorGeneral was requested ��to develop, in consultation with Member States, a set of criteria and principles for secondments1 to WHO from nongovernmental organizations, philanthropic foundations and academic instituti...
This document has two sets of guidelines: service policy guidelines and service standards that aim at making explicit the direction of reproductive health within the context of primary health care. The service policy guidelines spell out the general rules and regulations governing reproductive healt...
This is a 1st April 2019 stock status report with stock on hand data as of 31st March 2019. Warehouse data utilized includes information from NMS, JMS, MAUL, JCRC and UHMG. The PNFP sector: JMS is well stocked with most of the commodities having over 3 months of stock except DTG 50mg and NVP 50mg ta...
The document titled Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Programme 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, Western Africa, providin...
In Africa, where health systems1 are faced with numerous challenges, including insufficient funding, inadequate infrastructure, and shortages of skilled healthcare workers, digital transformation presents a unique opportunity to address these challenges and improve health outcomes for millions of pe...
This policy statement is about the vote functions of Ministry of health.
The functions of the committee shall be to monitor the general administration of the health Sub-district on behalf of the district local council and the Ministry of Health. this shall be done within the guidelines and policies of the Ministry of Health
The document titled AU COVID-19 at workplace joint communique 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...
The 2007 Uganda Service Provision Assessment (USPA) survey collected data from a representative sample of 491 health facilities throughout Uganda. The survey covered all levels of facilities, from HC-IIs to hospitals, and sampled facilities operated by different managing authorities, including gover...
