The document titled Outbreak Brief 82: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (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, Northern A...
The WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations met in Geneva from 14 to 18 October 2013. Dr M.-P. Kieny, Assistant Director- General of Health Systems and Innovation at the World Health Organization (WHO), welcomed participants on behalf of the Director-General. Dr Kieny...
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...
The document titled Africa CDC Newsletter – March 2019 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, Western Africa, providing valuable...
The Guide emphasizes practical teaching, projects and acquisition of skills by the learner. The competences that learners are expected to acquire are clearly spelt out in each module covered in the term. You should ensure that learners are well versed with practical work. The teaching methodologies...
According to the 2014 Population and Housing Census, Uganda had a population of 34.6 million people and high Total Fertility�Rates (TFR) of 5.4 children per woman (UBOS & ICF, 2016) implying a high population growth rate of 3.0%. The country is a youthful population with 47.9% between 0-14 years, 4...
Mr. Speaker Sir and Honorable Members of Parliament, the overall goal of the health sector is the attainment of a good standard of health of the people in Uganda, in order to promote a healthy and productive life. The specific objective of the sector is to reduce morbidity and mortality from the maj...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 65: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (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, Northern A...
The assessment tool guides the supervisors on how to assess each standard, indicates the means of verification and operational definition for each standard. It is where the supervisor shall record and score the performance of each health facility and record comments/notes to explain the level of per...
This publication is about the negative effect of early marriages on adolescents.
– Using antimicrobials without prescription can cause antimicrobial resistance, always seek the advice of a health care professional before using antimicrobials against any infection.– Using antimicrobials without prescription can cause antimicrobial resistance, always seek the advice of a health ca...
The National Health Policy and HSSIP Goal is ��to attain a good standard of health for all people in Uganda in order to promote healthy and productive lives��. In line with this goal one of the key priorities of the NHP is to address the human resource crisis and re-define the institutional framewor...
The M&E Plan will be a key performance management tool for the NSP; it details how data will be aggregated from M&E systems of key sectors and provided to enable reporting against the NDP as well as global targets. Performance monitoring of the NSP is an on-going process that allows decision-makers...
All stakeholders are being called on to coordinate, communicate, collaborate, and cooperate to support the PACT Initiative to control COVID-19 in Africa.
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. In this issue, we brin...
The forty-first meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) was held from 12-16 November 2018 at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
This booklet provides summary statistics from various statistical publications compiled by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS). The statistics give indication of current social and economic trends in the country. Reference should be made to more detailed published
In 1985 WHO convened a conference in Nairobi on the rational use of drugs, since that time efforts have been increased to improve drug uses practices.An essential tool for such work is an objective measure of drug use in health facilities.
The National Health Laboratory Strategic Plan (NHLSP) provides a national framework to guide investments in laboratory services by the Government of Uganda and Health Development partners. It aims to strengthen coordination, implementation and management of the services and ensure that they are tran...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 60: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (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, Northern A...