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Strategic Plan for Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council 2016/17 - 2021/22 July

This Strategic Plan sets out UMDPC��s strategic direction for the next five years (2016/17-2021/22). It gives the priorities of the Council and how these will be achieved, as well as provides the basis for efficient and effective utilisation of the human, physical and financial resources. The Strat...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Framework for One Health Practice in National Public Health Institutes

Importance of a One Health approach ……………………………………………………………………………………. 2 Role of Africa CDC and national public health institutes in improving public health …………. 5 Purpose of this One Health framework …………………………………………………………………………………….. 6 Section 1: Goals, objectives, and activities ………………………………………...

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Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 41: 5th -11thOct 2020

We are pleased to share our 41st 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...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
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Guidance for national Tuberculosis programmes on the management of Tuberculosis in children

Important recent changes or additions to guidelines for the management of tuberculosis (TB) in children have made it necessary to revise the first edition of Guidance for national tuberculosis programmes on the management of tuberculosis in children, published by WHO in 2006. Like the 2006 guidance,...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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WHO guidelines on the pharmacological treatment of persisting pain in children with medical illnesses

Pain in children is a public health concern of major significance in most parts of the world. Although the means and knowledge to relieve pain exists, children��s pain is often not recognized, is ignored or even denied. These guidelines address the pharmacological management of persisting pain in ch...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The WHO Application of ICD-10 to deaths during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium: ICD-MM

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...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
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Voluntary HIV counselling and testing in Uganda

As one of the first countries in Africa where HIV was recognized, the effect of the AIDS epidemic in Uganda has been severe. AIDS was first reported in Rakai District in 1982, 180 km outside the capital city of Kampala. HIV rates increased rapidly throughout the country and by the late 1980s it appe...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 151 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 31: COVID-19 Pandemic 18 August 2020

As of 9am East African Time (EAT) 18 August 2020, a total of 1,128,245 COVID-19 cases and 25,884 deaths (CFR: 2%) have been reported in 55 African countries. This is 5% of all cases reported globally. Since the last brief, 72,281 new COVID-19 cases have been reported, which is an increase of 7% comp...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 34: 17th-23rdAug 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. This issue, we showcas...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
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Guidance for Awake Prone Ventilation in the non-intubated Conscious Patient

This document provides guidance for African Union Member States on the use of awake prone positioning in non-intubated coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients. It is intended for use among clinicians taking care of moderate to severe COVID-19 cases. The COVID-19 outbreak has brought with it the need...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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Women and the Tobacco Epidemic Challenges for the 21st Century

Identifying issues and problems in the occupational health of women remains a challenge. Much of women's work remains unrecognised, uncounted and unpaid: work in the home, in agriculture, food production and the marketing of home-made products, for example. Within the paid labour force, women are di...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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National Population and Housing Census 2014

Demographic and socio-economic data are useful for planning and evidence-based decision making in any country.� �Such data are collected through Population Censuses, Demographic and Socio-economic Surveys, Civil Registration Systems and other Administrative sources. In Uganda, however, the Populatio...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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HIV drug resistance to integrase inhibitors in low- and middle-income countries

Dolutegravir (DTG)-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) is the cornerstone of HIV treatment in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for use in both first- and second-line treatment. This follows evidence from clinical trials showing better effica...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Disease Control and Prevention
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 131 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 144: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

As of 6 p.m. East African Time (EAT) 19 October 2022, a total of 12,086,731 COVID-19 cases and 255,912 deaths (CFR: 2.1%) have been reported by the 55 African Union (AU) Member States (MS). This represents 2% of all cases and 4% of all deaths reported globally. Forty (73%) AU MS are reporting CFRs h...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Supply Chain Systems for Community Health Programs in Uganda: Situation Analysis

Community-based village health teams (VHTs) have long been an important component of the Uganda Ministry of Health��s (MoH) strategies to improve access to medicines and health supplies in households facing geographic, logistic, financial, cultural, and other constraints to using and reaching formal...

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Sub Theme: Other
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Health environment , managing the linkages for sustainable development, a toolkit for decision-makers : synthesis report.

The initiative supports environment and health actors working together to address issues of common concern. Traditionally, health and environment sectors have acted independently of one another, each in defined domains. While much can and has been achieved, HELI aims to add a further dimension by fo...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Environmental Health and Sanitation
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Consolidated Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of HIV in Uganda

These guidelines provide guidance on the diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, the care of people living with HIV and the use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection. The guidelines are structured along the continuum of HIV testing, prevention, tr...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 129 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Environmental and Social Management Framework For Additional Financing to Uganda COVID-19 Response and Emergency Preparedness Project (P177273), March, 2022

The novel human Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is highly infectious and given the number of travelers coming from affected countries, the risk of importation of COVID-19 into the country is considered very high by WHO. If not averted, COVID-19 can affect Uganda��s economy in several ways, some...

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Uganda Pharmaceutical Sector Report 2010

In June 2010, the Ugandan Ministry of Health (MOH) with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Securing Ugandans�� Right to Essential Medicines (SURE) Program, collected data for the 2010 Pharmaceutical Sector Report. This report presents the findings of t...

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Theme: Prevention
Sub Theme: Pharmaceuticals and Drugs 1 Like
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World report on violence and health 2002

This, the firstWorld report on violence and health, is an important part of WHO��s response to Resolution WHA49.25. It is aimed mainly at researchers and practitioners. The latter include health care workers, social workers, those involved in developing and implementing prevention programmes and ser...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Gender Based Violence
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