Goals are different depending on the timing of the visit. Minimum 8 contacts are aimed for in an Uncomplicated pregnancy. If a woman books later than in first trimester, preceding goals should be combined and attended to. At all visits address any identified problems, check the BP and measure the Sy...
This audit report provides information on staffing levels and skill mix in the public health sector as of December 2013. It is aimed at providing human resource information regarding the current gap in staffing within GoU established structure in order to inform future HRH planning (recruitment and...
This publication is about the malaria statistics of Uganda.
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...
Anemia is a widespread public health problem associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality, especially in pregnant women and young children. It is a disease with multiple causes, both nutritional (vitamin and mineral deficiencies) and non-nutritional (infection) that frequently co-occ...
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the biggest cause of death worldwide. More than 17 million people died from CVDs in 2008. More than 3 million of these deaths occurred before the age of 60 and could have largely been prevented. The percentage of premature deaths from CVDs ranges from 4% in high...
The Statistical Abstract is an annual publication compiled by Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), and provides the statistical summary on various socio-economic indicators for Uganda. Some of the Calendar Year (CY) 2020 and Financial Year (FY) 2020/21 data presented in this edition are provisional a...
The document titled Africa CDC Policy Recommendation for African Union Meetings and Travel During COVID-19 Outbreak 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...
Regional Referral Hospitals fall under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Health. They specialized clinical services such as medicine, surgery, paediatric, and obstetrics and gynaecology. In addition, they psychiatry; ear, nose, and throat; ophthalmology, and clinical support services (labor...
The goal of the strategy is to establish and strengthen the community health system as part of the larger national health system, in order to bring services closer to the community and ensure equitable distribution of community and household-centred health care services. The general objective is to...
The policy provides a simple set of guidelines to enable local level health care managers and providers to make the best decisions they can on what oral health strategies to implement.� It is a flexible decision-making framework that enables health managers to adapt the most effective oral health in...
Surveillance system has been modified from weekly to daily following the Ebola outbreak in the neighboring DRC. New arrivals are being screened for Ebola at all entry points into Uganda and no case has been reported in Uganda by end of August 2018. 218,072 consultations were made across all the heal...
The information herein has been aggregated across several reliable and evidence-based sources such as the Summary of Product Characteristics (SPCs), British National Formulary, Martindale and World Health Organisation Model Formulary. It has been summarised and adapted to harmonise with the Uganda C...
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.
Disease outbreaks occur frequently, and no two outbreaks are ever the same. There are always differences in magnitude and spread, and the ability to control and reduce fatality due to the outbreak will depend on the depth of scientific knowledge about the disease, availability of approved and well-k...
This book, which has been appropriately titled Essential Maternal & Neonatal Care Clinical Guidelines for Uganda, is expected to be a reinforcement of the Safe Motherhood Life Saving Skills (LSS) program, the Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postnatal Care (PCPNC), Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) Tr...
The Ministry of Health hereby presents the Statistical Abstract, 2002. The Health Management Information System (HMIS) and Morbidity and Mortality surveys by the Resource Center of the Ministry of Health and partner agencies yield a wide range of health and Health related statistics. These help to m...
This year��s global TB report reveals that countries are making progress. About 7 million people were reported to have been reached with quality TB care in 2018, up from 6.4 million in 2017. In addition, TB-related deaths dropped from 1.6 million in 2017 to 1.5 million in 2018. However, TB remains t...
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Uganda has had far reaching consequences not only for individuals, families and communities, but also for the country as a whole. In the education sector, the epidemic has emerged as a major threat to achieving Education for All (EFA) goals. The national success in the fight...
The purpose of this study was to identify and recommend strategies for tackling the underlying issues in the human resources for health (HRH) management process in Uganda with an eye towards addressing the HRH crisis.
