Vector control is a vital component of malaria prevention, control and elimination strategies because it can be highly effective in providing personal protection and/or reducing disease transmission. This 1st edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines for malaria vector control has be...
Few challenges facing the global community today match the scale of malnutrition, a condition that directly affects one in three people. Malnutrition manifests itself in many different ways: as poor child growth and development; as individuals who are skin and bone or prone to infection; as those wh...
The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children��s Fund (UNICEF) and many other organizations are involved in the procurement of pharmaceutical products. In particular, the supply of pharmaceutical products used in the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficie...
Village Health Teams are community health workers and volunteers, who serve their communities and carry out health promotion and social mobilisation activities. They also carry out a range of health interventions across the spectrum of health, water and sanitation, disease surveillance and they also...
The evaluation targeted patients seen at Health Center IV (HCIV), General Hospitals, Regional and National Referral hospitals from the twelve health regions of MoH. A total of 158 health facilities were sampled for the evaluation, of which 116 were Health Center IVs, 22 were General Hospitals, 14 we...
This policy replaces the 2003 document, uganda national policy guidelines for HIV voluntary counselling and testing. The revision was promted by scientific and programmatic advances in HIv counselling and as well advances in prevention.
In recent years, visibility and political support for malaria has continued to increase dramatically. This policy brief is a summary of WHO��s recommended technical strategies to combat the disease. Its purpose is to present, in one concise document, a summary of WHO guidance that will assist countr...
All types of work are hazardous and persons at work are exposed to situations that may result into injury, disease or even death. While the economic cost is high, public awareness of safety and health tends to be quite low. All too frequently the subject does not get the priority it merits and the h...
This document is to guide policy makers, managers, districts, health workers, communities, NGOs and all other stakeholders on how to implement integrated community case management (ICCM) of childhood malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea to reduce under mortality and take actions to introduce, implement,...
The Uganda Clinical Guidelines (UCG) evolved from the National Standard Treatment Guidelines 1993, which were the first of the type published in Uganda. Before then, individual guidelines existed to manage a limited number of specific conditions. The purpose of national standard treatment guidelines...
This document reflects the recommendations of the OSP report. The aim is to set out a revised and clearly defined strategic framework which takes into account AMREF��s comparative strengths, while also considering the goalsand objectives of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership Global Strategic Plan 200...
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Children under five years of age bear a disproportionate share of the global burden of disease. While major gains have been made in reducing childhood mortality during previous decades, stagnation or even reversals of trends have been observed recent...
This revised manual provides an update on those and other areas and pays special attention to the key role of the district TB/leprosy supervisors (DTLS). It provides guidance on how the district TB and leprosy supervisor (DTLS) function relates to the health facility staff on the one hand and the he...
More than ten years ago, the Ministry of Health adapted a Generic Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response Technical Guidelines supported by World Health Organization-Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) in collaboration with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atl...
The thirty-seventh meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from 16 to 20 November 2015. Mr Cornelis de Joncheere, Director, WHO Department of Essential Medicines and Health Products (EMP), opened the meeting. He welcomed all participants on beh...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 93: 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...
This brief provides an overview of; OPD attendance, notifiable diseases, other diseases of public health interest and causes of death. Overall, Reporting Rates OPD attendance and neonatal deaths increased while maternal deaths decreased in the week. Malaria cases increased by 9% while malaria deaths...
This ducument details the step wise approach to be taken to deliver a comprehensive risk communication
In September, 2020, in an important phase of the African continental response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Africa CDC began operationalising the institutional mechanisms to address the growing threat of NCDs, injuries, and mental health disorders. The development of a strategy to support health systems...
