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Review of Implementation of The Ministry of Health Work plan Semi-annual (1st and 2nd QUARTERS) July to December 2018 - FY 2018/19

The workshop to review the implementation of the Ministry of Health (MoH) work plan for the first and second quarters for 2018/19 financial year will take take place from 2nd to 3rd April 2019 at Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala. The main objective of the workshop is to conduct a performance review of...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/MoH%20Semi%20Annual%20report%20FY%202018_1...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 145 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Local Manufacturing

Africa has made significant progress towards local vaccine and other health products manufacturing—securing funding for manufacturers, improving regulatory instruments...

https://africacdc.org/news-item/africas-progress-towards-sustainable-local-manufacturing-health-prod...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Supply Chain Management
Category: Flagship Initiatives Last updated: 1 hour ago 22 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda Clinical Guidelines, 2023

The guidelines are based on principles of scientific evidence, cost-effectiveness�and prioritization of conditions to maximize the health benefit�with limited resources.�The regular update of clinical guidelines and essential medicines lists�is one of the key interventions in the Health Sector Devel...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Uganda%20Clinical%20Guidelines%202023.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 633 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Standard Operating Procedures for Integrated Human Resources for Health Information System (HRIS)

Uganda like many of the developing countries is faced by a number of human resource challenges. An analysis of the HRH situation reveals an HRH crisis in the country characterized by a critical shortage of health workers with nearly 50% of the districts operating below 50% of the approved staffing e...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/HRIS_SOP%20in%20the%20Health%20Sector.pdf
Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 158 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Investing to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases : Third WHO report on neglected tropical diseases.

This third WHO report anticipates the investments needed as countries graduate from low-income to middle-income status and as the world��s focus expands from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Investing%20to%20overcome%20the%20global%2...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 132 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (31 August 2022)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (31 August 2022) 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, Nor...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-31-august-2022/?i...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 132 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Mental Health Atlas 2017 Completion Guide

This document was prepared by the WHO Mental Health Atlas team aiming to support the process of data collection and processing.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Mental%20Health%20Atlas%202017.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 19 hours ago 152 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Higher Diploma in Anaesthesia Field Placement Logbook August 2017

The content of this logbook predominantly includes practical areas and exposure experiences that cannot be acquired within the training institution��s environment. This logbook will, therefore be used to record practical experiences, exposures and the assessment there of, while at placement/practic...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Logbook%20for%20Higher%20Diploma%20in%20An...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 199 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Acceleration of HIV Prevention in Uganda , A road map towards zero new infections by 2030

Uganda has made great strides in reducing overall HIV incidence, AIDS related mortality, new infections among infants, and HIV prevalence. While the current improvements have been made, the scope, coverage and intensity of interventions are still inadequate to move the country to epidemic control an...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Prevention%20Road%20Map%20Final.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 196 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Malaria Status-Week 24, 2021 WEEK 21ST-24TH MAY 2021

The reporting rate decreased to 71.6% in this week from 71.9% in last week. . A total of 167,291 malaria confirmed cases were reported, a decrease by 77.2% from the previous week. Test positivity rate this week was 49.3% compared to 47.3% last week. The highest Test positivity rates were reported in...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Malaria%20weekly%20report%20Week%2024%2020...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 174 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Implementing the WHO stop TB strategy : A handbook for national tuberculosis control programmes

This publication draws upon current guidelines and information documents issued by the World Health Organization (WHO), which provide more detailed guidance on implementation for each of the specific subject areas. The listed references are limited to key readings for implementation of programme act...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Implementing%20the%20WHO%20stop%20TB%20str...
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 168 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

A Brief Guide to iHRIS Qualify

iHRIS Qualify is the system that is used by the Health Professional Councils to capture and aggregate data on a cadre of health workers from the time they enter pre-service training through registration and licensure. It can also track deployments, issue licenses for private practices and out-migrat...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/A%20Brief%20Guide%20to%20iHRIS%20Qualify.p...
Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 196 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Curbing the Epidemic Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control

SMOKING already kills one in 10 adults worldwide. By 2030, perhaps a little sooner, the proportion will be one in six, or 10 million deaths per year��more than any other single cause. Whereas until recently this epidemic of chronic disease and premature death mainly affected the rich countries, it i...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Curbing%20the%20epidemic%20Governments%20a...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Preventive chemotherapy in human helminthiasis

This manual is intended to guide the coordinated implementation of regular, systematic, large-scale interventions that provide anthelminthic drug treatment as a core component of the joint and synergic control of helminthic diseases such as lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis and s...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Preventive%20Chemotherapy%20in%20human%20h...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 188 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda Essential Medicines and Health Supplies Management Manual 2018

This manual describes how to manage supplies based on revised and harmonized tools. It will act as a reference guide for health workers and focus on basic principles of supply chain management. If properly followed, it will promote efficient stock control and ordering of all EMHS. Health workers at...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/EMHS%20Manual_MASTER_COPY_14-Mar-2019.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 157 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National health policy: Reducing poverty through promoting peoples health.

The development of this National Health Policy (NHP II) has been informed by the National Development Program (NDP) for the period 2009/10��2013/14, the overall development agenda for Uganda. The NDP places emphasis on investing in the promotion of people��s health, a fundamental human right for all...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Health%20Policy%202009%20Draft....
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 178 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019

An Act to protect the privacy of the individual and personal data by regulating the collection and processing of personal information; to provide for the rights of the persons whose data is collected and the obligations of data collectors, data processors and data controllers; to regulate the use or...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Data-Protection-and-Privacy-Act-2019.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 145 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence 1005

The thirty-eighth meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from 14 to 18 November 2016. Dr Suzanne Hill, Director, WHO Department of Essential Medicines and Health Products (EMP), opened the meeting. She welcomed all...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Who%20expert%20committee%20on%20drug%20dep...
Theme: Prevention
Sub Theme: Pharmaceuticals and Drugs
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 hour ago 179 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda School Health Policy

Fifty percent of Uganda's population is under 15 years of age. The Universal Primary Education Programme has enabled 7 million children, which is over 30% of the entire population, to be in school. When Universal Secondary Education is introduced,the number of children in school could rise to 9 mill...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Uganda%20School%20Health%20Policy.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 267 Views 1 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 51: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

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....

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-51-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=161...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 hours ago 168 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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