As of 9 am East African Time (EAT) 5 January 2021, a total of 2,852,491 COVID-19 cases and 67,943 deaths (CFR: 2.4%) have been reported in 55 African Union (AU) Member States. This is 3.4% of all cases reported globally. The majority (84%) of Member States continue to report community transmission....
The document titled Outbreak Brief 121: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic 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, Weste...
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has gained popularity within the global health policy and academic circles as countries strive to meet the UHC target established under the Sustainable Development Goal agenda. To accomplish this goal, developing countries such as Rwanda, Ghana and others have pursued...
In 2001, Ministry of Health established the Village Health Teams (VHT) strategy as an innovative approach to empower communities to participate in improving their own health as well as strengthen the delivery of health services at both the community and house hold levels. Despite implementing this s...
Malaria continues to be the most frequent cause of ill health in Uganda. The greatest toll hits young children and pregnant women. Malaria impacts negatively on the household, community incomes and the national economy, thus keeping the rural communities trapped in perpetual poverty.
Haftom Taame Desta*, Nicaise Ndembi, Fai Karl, Howard Nyika, Grace Merekaje, Emmanuel Idigbe, Killian Songwe, Joshua Obasanya, Placido Cardoso, Ngashi Ngongo, Raji Tajudeen, Jean KaseyaAfrica Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), African UnionIntroduction: By linking key component...
The document titled Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiative 2021 – 2025 Strategic Plan offers a comprehensive insight into Biosafety and Biosecurity, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Sou...
The 2000-2001 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) was the third national Demographic and Health Survey in a series that started in 1988, with the second conducted in 1995. The major objective of these surveys was to collect and analyse data on fertility, mortality, family planning, and healt...
The outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa is unprecedented in its scale, severity, and complexity. Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are still affected by this outbreak, and are struggling to control the epidemic against a backdrop of extreme poverty, weak health systems and social...
Now these countries want to build on the many successes of the past 15 years, and go further. The new set of goals, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aims to end poverty and hunger by 2030. World leaders, recognizing the connection between people and planet, have set goals for the land, the...
RAPPELANT EN OUTRE que, les 24 et 25 juin 2020, Africa CDC a convoqué plus de 3000 dirigeants politiques et experts techniques pour discuter des besoins en matière de vaccins contre la COVID-19 sur le continent et des possibilités régionales de développement, de fabrication, de distribution et d’uti...
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...
2. The objective of this Internal Directive is to support Africa CDC’s commitment to the prevention of SEA and SH in its operations, programs and projects; and to taking appropriate measures in response to observed or alleged SEA and SH.
Nationally, about 5 million cases of malaria,�diarrhoea, and pneumonia annually are brought to�care late or go untreated; hence, integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) addresses�an unmet need.� The iCCM strategy accelerates the reduction in childhood�mortality, which is still soaring high in Ug...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – 20 April 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, Northe...
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.
For Uganda to achieve its SDG targets requires steepening the rate of MMR declined by��5.5% to achieve <140/100,000 by 2030, IMR has to reduce to at least 12 per 1000 live births and U5MR to 25 per 1000 live births by 2030. The MPDSR report for the FY 2020/2021 shows that the three major causes of i...
Over the last two decades, the world made substantial progress in reducing mortality among children and young adolescents (including children under age 5, children aged 5��9 and young adolescents aged 10��14). Still, in 2017 alone, an estimated 6.3 million children and young adolescents died, mostly...
Despite marked advancement in prevention, care and treatment, HIV in Uganda continues to exert severe constraints on the public health and economic well-being of a sizeable proportion of the population. The type of HIV epidemic in Uganda is described as severe, mature, and generalized but with sub-e...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of disability and premature death throughout the world. The underlying pathology is atherosclerosis, which develops over many years and is usually advanced by the time symptoms occur, generally in middle age. Acute coronary events (heart attacks) and cer...
