The document titled Core Values of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) 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, South...
This publication is about the negative effect of early marriages on adolescents.
The government policy on health is to ensure that all Ugandans have access to high quality and affordable health care so as to contribute to social and economic development. Accordingly, the Mission of the MOH is to provide the highest level of health services to all people in Uganda through deliver...
This report is about the strategies that have been made to ensure that the MDGs have been attained by the year 2015.
PART I: COVID-19 REPORT………………………………………………………………………………………………1 Epidemiologic update, Africa, 31 December 2020………………………………………………………. 2 Strategic Coordination…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 Strategic Initiatives………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Personnel Training and Deployment…………...
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 ………………………………………...
The document titled Personal Protective Equipment for Different Clinical Settings and Activities 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 Afric...
The purpose of WHO��s Global Tuberculosis Report is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and of progress in care and prevention at global, regional and country levels.1 This is done in the context of recommended global TB strategies and associated targets, and broa...
During week 45, the reporting rates were as follows,�National rate was 78.0% less than 78.2% in week 44,�Central regional had 68.2% more than 67.9% in week 44 Eastern region had 76.3% less than 77.7% in week 44,�Western was 85.5%) less than 86.2% in week 44,�Northern was (82.1%) less than 86.9% in W...
Cancer is to a large extent avoidable. Many cancers can be prevented. Others can be detected early in their development, treated and cured. Even with late stage cancer, the pain can be reduced, the progression of the cancer slowed, and patients and their families helped to cope.
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 bring...
The Nutrition Service Quality Assessment (NSQA 2021) Tool for health facilities is a result of the revision and expansion of the Nutrition Service Delivery Assessment tool (NSDA 2015) into a systems quality assessment tool for nutrition services at all health facility levels. The NSQA tool is specif...
This edition of the Standing Orders shall be referred to as the 2010 Edition. It is a single consolidated document which deals generally with the management of the Public Service and issues concerning the terms and conditions of Service. The Standing Orders is divided into alphabetical sections mark...
The document titled Community use of face masks 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, Western Afri...
Uganda is currently using both a push (kit -based) and pull (order -based) system to supply essential medicines and health supplies (EMHS) to health facilities. Higher-level health facilities (Hospitals and Health Centres level (HCIV) utilize the pull system by requesting EMHS from the National Medi...
Putting on and Removing PPE in the context of EVD presentation is an EVD IPC training material for HC IIs and pharmacies.
So far, seven African countries have already surpassed the target of vaccinating at least 70 of the population eligible for COVID-19 vaccination according to the WHO Liberia and Rwanda have fully vaccinated their eligible populations, while Mauritius and Botswana have vaccinated 94 percent Over 90 o...
Tuberculosis (TB) prevalence surveys are most valuable in areas where notification data obtained through routine surveillance are of unproven accuracy or incomplete, and in areas with an estimated prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed TB of more than 100 per 100 000. To help in assessing the per...
Surgical Care at the District Hospital provides a comprehensive guide to surgical procedures that are commonly performed at the district hospital. It is intentionally limited to emergency and very common problems and is not designed as a major textbook of surgery. The manual is presented in seven pa...
This guide is designed as a simple and practical tool to help District Health Managers elaborate a realistic District level plan to reduce improper disposal of waste from injection activities.
