Outbreak Brief 27: COVID-19 Pandemic 21 July 2020

As of 9 am EAT 21 July 2020, a total of 736,288 COVID-19 cases and 15,418 deaths (CFR: 2.1%) have been reported in 54 African countries. This is 5% of all cases reported globally. Since the last brief, 125,481 new COVID-19 cases have been reported, which is an increase of 21% compared to the 14 July...

Monthly Malaria Surveillance Status Report - JULY 2023

This document is�a Malaria�Surveillance Status�Report for the month of July 2023.

Web-Based ARV Ordering and Reporting System (WAOS) Report Period: June-July 2019

The web-based ARV Ordering and Reporting System (WAOS) is the official Ministry of Health (MoH) ARV ordering and reporting system hosted within the District Health Information Software (DHIS2). Since 2013, the Ministry of Health uses the system to support health facilities to order for and report on...

Outbreak Brief 106: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 106: 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...

The World health report : 2001 : Mental health : new understanding, new hope.

The World Health Report 2001 provides a new understanding of mental disorders that offers new hope to the mentally ill and their families in all countries and all�societies. It is a comprehensive review of what is known about the current and future burden of disorders, and the principal contributing...

Synthesis, Consolidation and Building Consensus on Key and Priority Population Size Estimation Numbers in Uganda Final ReportINAL REPORT October 2019

Despite marked advancement in prevention, care and treatment, HIV in Uganda continues to exert severe constraints on the public health and economic well-being of a sizeable proportion of the population. The type of HIV epidemic in Uganda is described as severe, mature, and generalized but with sub-e...

Climate Change and Human Health

There is international scientific agreement that the world is getting warmer. By examining climate records, scientists have determined that the temperature of the air at the Earth��s surface has warmed by approximately 0.6�C since the late 19th century (see Figure 1-1). Evidence from tree rings, tro...

A heavy burden : The indirect cost of illness in Afriaca.

The diseases afflicting the African population are responsible for a substantial loss in health, estimated at 704 765 879 DALYs in 2015 alone. In the WHO African Region, total losses amounted to 629 603 271 DALYs. Out of that total, 416 671 978 DALYs (59.1 %) were from communicable, maternal, perina...

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 11, 13th - 19th March, 2017

The proportion of health facilities that reported this week was 81.1% reflecting a 2.6% decrease in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2016. Only 12.9% (15/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 62.1% (72/116) of the districts achieved the national target of 8...

UGANDA HEALTH ACCOUNTS

This National Health Accounts report describes the health care system from an expenditure perspective. The health expenditure data can be used to improve access, equity, efficiency, and financial risk protection as part of the national effort to bring services closer to the citizens and accelerate t...

Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 16: 13th -19th Apr 2020

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 br...

Strategy for improving health service delivery 2016-2021 : Presidential Directives For Health Sector Service improvements To attain Middle Income Status by 2020.

On the 23rd of June 2016, His Excellency the President of the Republic of Uganda issued strategic guidelines and directives for the minimum program for Uganda to attain the middle income status by 2020 and vigorously implement the NRM manifesto 2016 to 2021. In the guidelines, key tasks of the gover...

HIV drug resistance to integrase inhibitors in low- and middle-income countries

Dolutegravir (DTG)-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) is the cornerstone of HIV treatment in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for use in both first- and second-line treatment. This follows evidence from clinical trials showing better effica...

Consultation on STD Interventions for Preventing HIV: What is the evidence?

The Consultation was called in response to recent resraech findings in sexually transmitted disease (STD) treatment and its effects on the tranmission of Immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Weekly Malaria Report - Epi Week 51 (18th Dec to 24th Dec 2023)

This weekly report is a statistical representation of the malaria events that happened in the country during the week of�18th Dec to 24th Dec 2023.

HIV/AIDS in Uganda: The epidemic and the response

Two decades of HIV/AIDS in Uganda, the epidemic has entered the mature stage that presents enormous challenges of coping with the devastating social and economic impact in addition to the high HIV prevalence rates. The sickness and deaths of productive Ugandans has created a dent in all development...

Helping Health Workers Learn A book of methods

Such a world-wide goal is very worthy. But in some ways it is dangerous. For there is a risk of trying to reach that goal in ways that become so standardized, so impersonal, so controlled by those in power, that many of the human qualities essential to health��and to health care�� are lost. There is...

Factors that Influence Decisions to Seek Medical Male Circumcision Services A Report of Qualitative Research in Kampala, Kayunga, Pallisa, Kasese and Mbale Districts - Uganda March, 2010

This report contains the findings of the study on ��Factors that Influence Decisions to Seek Medical Male Circumcision (MMC) Services�� commissioned by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg University - Health Communication Partnership (HCP) with funding from the United States Agency for International Develop...

IAHO Master Facility List

Welcome to the AIho Facility List Master Facility List database, a comprehensive repository of healthcare facility information across all African countries. This platform allows users to explore and analyze key statistics on healthcare infrastructure across the continent.

For each country i...

WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations 986

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 t...