Uganda��s economic performance has been impressive in the past decade. The average real rate of GDP growth has been 6.9 per annum since 1990/91. Significant progress has been registered in trade liberalisation, privatisation, civil service reform, financial sector reforms and decentralisation initia...
This paper examines the impacts of a public sector decentralization program on the demand for health care in Uganda in the 1990s. This work is an extension of a previous paper, which provided evidence of a shifting of priorities by local governments in Uganda��s decentralized health system away from...
This Review addresses a mismatch between what is known about how to respond to particular health problems in poor economies and what is actually done about them. It focuses on one cause of the problems that ensue from the mismatch - capacity constraints. Weak capacity at a number of levels in the in...
Several factors are contributing to the (re)emergence of infectious diseases such as population growth, living in close contact with animals, frequent travelling, poverty, destructive ecological changes due to economic development and land use and climate change result in global warming.Especially A...
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2024 Womi-Eteng Oboma Eteng, Wessam Mankoula, Merawi Aragaw, Ibrahima Sonko, Mathew Tut, Dennis Kibiye, Lul Riek and Ahmed Ogwell Ouma In July 2022, on the sidelines of the 41st Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union a...
We engaged 19 manufacturers in total, including all manufacturers with commercial scale production capacity as well as a number of early-stage projects. We also engaged with a variety of originator companies outside of Africa interested in technology transfers to African vaccine manufacturers to und...
The strong links between socio-economic factors or public policies and health were documented in the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health report. Yet even when health and health equity are seen as important markers of development, expressing the benefits of soc...
Everyone hopes for a good death, or rather, ��a good life to the very end��1, but until recently there was little dedicated effort and investment to provide the resources and education that would make that possible. Public engagement and policy interventions to improve the quality of death through...
This package of health services is a standard guideline that will be used by health care providers, administrative and political leaders and the communites themselves as realistic targets that can be achieved. The package is currently being costed but even in the absence of the cost estimate, it is...
During the 1970s and 1980s, Uganda went through a period of political and economic upheaval, resulting in the breakdown of many services. In the health sector this was characterized by general system failure. Funding was grossly insufficient, leading to problems of meagre and late salaries for healt...
The African continent is facing a health crisis occasioned by a number of factors that have affected the sector over the past two decades or more. These factors include the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the reemergence of old communicable diseases such as TB and Malaria, and the apparent paradox of increasing...
The IPC Ring Approach Checklist presentation is an EVD IPC training material for HC II and pharmacies on how to rapidly mobilize teams to assist affected health facilities and the community in implementing IPC measures to�reduce Ebola transmission in a predetermined risk� area whenever a case is ide...
The annual monitoring focused on four Ministry of Health (Vote 014) projects namely; Uganda Health Systems and Strengthening (UHSSP-Project 1123), Support to Rehabilitation of Mulago Hospital (Project 1243), Rehabilitation and equipping of health facilities in the West (1314) and construction of the...
Tunisia, like the other countries of the Arab Maghreb, is especially vulnerable to the impact of the novel coronavirus both to their healthcare systems and economies. Still transforming since the fall of Zinedine Ben Ali’s dictatorship in 2011, the Tunisian health sector is still strick...
The document titled Africa CDC response to Ebola in DR Congo offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Democratic Republic of Congo, providing valuable guidance and data for public health profession...
Health Information System (HIS) is the processes and mechanisms through which health��related data is produced and made accessible to users, through networking within and outside the Health Sector. HIS has several sub��systems, each with specialized roles and responsibilities based on their comparat...
The document titled Africa CDC Annual Report 2017 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 guida...
The proportion of health facilities that reported this week was 81.6% representing a 59.1% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2015. Subsequently, there has been a steady increase in the national reporting rate of 80% and above. Only 15.5% (18/116) districts had 100% of thei...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 155: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic offers a comprehensive insight into Surveillance and Disease Intelligence, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Norther...
The document titled COVID-19 Tiered Public Health and Social Measure Framework for Africa 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, Nort...
