The proportion of health facilities that reported during week 50 was 80.4% reflecting a 18.2% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2015. Only 16.4% (19/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 53.4% (62/116) of the districts achieved the national targe...
The National Strategic Framework (NSF) for HIV/AIDS Activities in Uganda was developed to cover the period 2000/01-2005/05. Late in 2003, a forward looking Mid Term Review (MTR) of the NSF was undertaken to assess progress and to identify gaps and emerging issues in implementation of the NSF. This c...
This particular guideline is comprehensive and includes among others the National Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines (MOH, 2004) and the Infection Control: Policies and Procedures (MOH, 2005). IPC guidelines will be used alongside with these and the other technical guidelines such as (1) PE...
The Global Patient Safety Challenge with the theme ��Clean Care is Safer Care�� means working worldwide to assist countries to reduce the burden of health care associated infection. The challenges are enormous but so are the rewards: saving lives, improving patient safety, and making life better for...
To date the country has registered 164,118 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 3,596 deaths. Furthermore, there is a massive drop in the number of admissions at the health facilities. Currently there are two severely ill COVID-19 patients on admission at Mulago National referral Hospital and St Mary's H...
As of 9 a.m. East African Time (EAT) 9 November 2021, a total of 8,548,064 COVID-19 cases and 219,787 deaths (CFR: 2.6%) have been reported in 55 African Union (AU) Member States. This represents 3.4% of all cases and 4.4% of all deaths reported globally. Twenty-seven (49%) AU Member States are repo...
Strong progress continues to be made since the Health Assembly called for the worldwide eradication of poliomyelitis in 1988.2 At the time, poliomyelitis was endemic in more than 125 countries around the world and more than 350 000 children a year were paralysed for life by poliovirus. Today, transm...
This is the second Health Financing Strategy for Uganda, and it comes at a time of global commitment towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC). It is anticipated that this strategy will serve as a critical element in Uganda��s pathway to achieving the health-re...
Every year some 10.6 million children die before they reach their fifth birthday. Seven out of every 10 of these deaths are due to diarrhoea, pneumonia, measles, malaria or malnutrition. The WHO manual Management of Severe Malnutrition: a manual for physicians and other senior health workers and the...
As Africa’s second wave of COVID-19 cases surpasses the height of its first, African Union (AU) Member States across the continent have reinstated measures to control the spread of the virus. Unlike in April and May, most AU Member States have avoided complete lockdowns, and PHSMs put in place today...
A key message of this report is that real progress in health depends vitally on stronger health systems based on primary health care. In most countries, there will be only limited advances towards the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and other national health priorities without the develo...
Dr. Yenew Kebede Tebeje Head of Division of Laboratory Systems and Network
In the bit to improve healthcare service delivery in the country, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has focused its efforts on improving the management of its human resource i.e. Health Workers (HW). This is being achieved through the use of quality of Health Workforce data generated from the Human Resou...
The workshop to review the implementation of the Ministry of Health (MoH) work plan for the third and fourth quarters for 2018/19 financial year is scheduled to take place from 13th to 14th August 2019 at Hotel Africana in Kampala. The main objective of the workshop is to conduct a performance revie...
The annual monitoring focused on four Ministry of Health (Vote 014) projects namely; Uganda Health Systems and Strengthening (UHSSP-Project 1123), Support to Rehabilitation of Mulago Hospital (Project 1243), Rehabilitation and equipping of health facilities in the West (1314) and construction of the...
Uganda has been compiling the ��State of Uganda Population Report�� on an annual basis since 2000 through a joint effort by Population Secretariat, as the institution responsible for coordinating population policies and programmes; and United
A. Executive summary Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes from samples collected during the early phase of the pandemic in Kenya identified 8 global lineages and at least 76 independent SARS-CoV-2 introductions into the Kenyan coast. The dominant B.1 lineage (European origin) accounted for...
The AIDS epidemic continues to disproportionately affect sub-Saharan Africa, especially eastern and southern Africa (ESA). The ESA region has only 6.2% of the world��s population, but is home to half of the world��s people living with HIV (1). In 2015, the region accounted for 46% of the world��s ne...
Health Insurance is the way of financing health care where individuals or households contribute money to a common pool and when they fall sick they access a defined package of health services withouthaving to pay from their pockets.
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. This issue, we showcas...
