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Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin Week 7: 10 -16 February 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. Corona Virus Disease 2...

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Uganda Immunisation Act 2016

An Act to� provide for compulsory Immunisation of children, women of reproductive age and other target groups against immunisable diseases, to establish the Immunisation Fund and to provide for other incidental matters.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2010

��No child should be born with HIV; no child should be an orphan because of HIV; no child should die due to lack of access to treatment,�� urged Ebube Sylvia Taylor, an eleven year old born free of HIV, to world leaders gathered in New York to share progress made towards achieving the Millennium Dev...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
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Partnerships for African Vaccine Manufacturing (PAVM) Framework for Action

The Framework for Action answers the call made by the African Union Commission and the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at a summit in April 2021 to develop a framework that will enable Africa to manufacture 60 percent of its vaccine needs locally by 2040. The bold programs it outl...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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Africa CDC Weekly Event Based Surveillance Report, August 2023

Congo: Since last update (18 August 2023), the Ministry of Health (MoH) reported no new cases and four deaths of cholera. The cases presented with watery diarrhoea and vomiting at various health facilities in the regions. Cumulatively, 93 cases (21 confirmed; 72 suspected) and nine deaths (CFR: 9.7%...

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Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 30, 25th - 31st July, 2016

All 112 districts reported with an average reporting rate of 84.5% in week 30, 2016 which was similar to that of 85% of the previous week. This represents a 43.7% increase in reporting rate compared to the same week in 2015. A total of 22.3% (25/112) had 100% of all their health facilities reporting...

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Alert Notification: New SARS-CoV-2 variant with multiple spike protein mutations

As of 21 December 2020, more than 300 genomes of the 501Y.V2 variant have been identified, all in South Africa. Preliminary analysis in South Africa (501Y.V2) and the UK (501Y) suggests that this variant is significantly more transmissible than previously circulating variants and potentially higher...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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Wizara ya Afya Tanzania

The President Of The United Republic Of Tanzania Issued A...

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Strategies for Managing Acute Shortages of PPE during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The document titled Strategies for Managing Acute Shortages of PPE during the COVID-19 Pandemic 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...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 11, 13th - 19th March, 2017

The proportion of health facilities that reported this week was 81.1% reflecting a 2.6% decrease in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2016. Only 12.9% (15/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 62.1% (72/116) of the districts achieved the national target of 8...

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Quality Improvement For Mental Health

Everyone in need should have access to basic mental health care. This key principle, identified by the World Health Organization, requires that mental health care be�affordable, equitable, geographically accessible, available on a voluntary basis and of adequate quality.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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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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Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
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Cardiovascular disease prevention and control Translating evidence into action

Every year, an estimated 17 million people die of cardiovascular disease (CVD) (1). Three fourths of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. In addition, at least one third of the world population is currently at high risk of developing major cardiovascular events; an estimated 1.3 b...

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Special Report on New threats to human security in the Anthropocene 2022

As the Covid-19 pandemic got under way, the world�had been reaching unprecedented heights on the�Human Development Index (HDI). People were, on�average, living healthier, wealthier and better lives�for longer than ever. But under the surface a growing�sense of insecurity had been taking root. An est...

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UNAIDS and nongovernmental organizations

UNAIDS mission statement declares: ��As the main advocate for global action in HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing the transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and all...

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Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
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UNAIDS special report 2013

The number of people living with HIV who are accessing referral centres in the country has continued to grow since the introduction of universal and free antiretroviral therapy (ART). People also now have access to treatment for coinfection with TB and hepatitis B and C. Similarly, clinical and labo...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
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Annual Health Sector Performance Report 2011-12

The Annual Health Sector Performance Report for 2011/12 Financial Year provides progress of the annual workplan as well as the overall health sector performance against the set targets for the Financial Year 2011/12 with a comparative analysis of the previous trends and progress towards achieving th...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
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The Millennium Development Goals Report 2007

This report presents the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date, based on a set of data prepared by a large number of international organizations within and outside the United Nations system.

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Behaviour change, risk communication and outbreak response: a best-practice workshop

The document titled Behaviour change, risk communication and outbreak response: a best-practice workshop 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, So...

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Questions and answers on COVID-19 vaccine

When injected with the vaccine, the body responds to the germ proteins in the vaccine by producing specific antibodies that attach to the proteins and prepare the body to fight infection by the germ. When the real germ then infects the body, the antibodies attach to proteins on the surface of the ge...

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