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Nutritional care and support for patients with tuberculosis

Undernutrition increases the risk of tuberculosis (TB) and in turn TB can lead to malnutrition. Undernutrition is therefore highly prevalent among people with TB. It has been demonstrated that undernutrition is a risk factor for progression from TB infection to active TB disease and that undernutrit...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Nutritional%20care%20and%20support%20for%2...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 44 Minutes ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africas Leadership Role in the Development and Access to Potential COVID-19 Vaccine: Highlights for Day One

H.E. President Cyril Ramaphosa, Chairperson of the African Union and President of the Republic of South Africa opened the conference. He noted the need for strong partnerships, cooperation and a sense of urgency among Africans in finding a suitable vaccine against the COVID-19. He emphasized the nee...

https://africacdc.org/download/africas-leadership-in-covid-19-vaccine-development-and-access-highlig...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 149 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Nigeria Multi Harzard Risk Communication

This ducument details the step wise approach to be taken to deliver a comprehensive risk communication

https://ncdc.gov.ng/themes/common/docs/protocols/326_1702538423.pdf
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Category: Last updated: 18 hours ago 166 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 149: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 149: 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-149-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=16...
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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 127 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Democratic Republic of the Congo

The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Democratic Republic of the Congo 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,...

https://africacdc.org/download/perc-finding-the-balance-public-health-and-social-measures-in-democra...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 125 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 73: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 73: 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-73-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=162...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 120 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Tobacco Control Act 2015

This is an act to control the demand for the consumption of tobacco and its products, to control the supply of tobacco and its products to the population: to protect the environment from the effects of tobacco production and consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20Tobacco%20Control%20Act%202015.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 126 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Health Accounts FY 2014/15 -2015/16

Current Health Expenditure was 4,944 Billion UGX in financial year 2014/15 equivalent to US$ 1.7 Billion and which represents 1.1% of Gross Domestic Product and for financial year 2015/16 , the CHE was 5,309 billion UGX equivalent to US$ 1.8billion , The health expenditure per capita on average for...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/NHA_FINAL%20-UGANDA-1%20FY%202016-17_2017-...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 135 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Paediatric HIV Communication Campaign Strategy

The MoH is currently working to expand the availability of paediatric HIV services. The HIV testing and counseling policy was revised in 2010 to include paediatric testing and counseling,8 and training is on-going for health workers and supervisors. But many providers still lack knowledge about spec...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Paediatric%20HIV%20Communication%20campaig...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 128 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Poliomyelitis

Strong progress continues to be made since the Health Assembly called for the worldwide eradication of poliomyelitis in 1988.2 At the time, poliomyelitis was endemic in more than 125 countries around the world and more than 350 000 children a year were paralysed for life by poliovirus. Today, transm...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Poliomyelitis.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 139 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Egypt

The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Egypt 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/perc-finding-the-balance-public-health-and-social-measures-in-egypt/?...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 24 hours ago 114 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Opening up the HIV/AIDS epidemic : Guidance on encouraging beneficial disclosure, ethical partner counselling & appropriate use of HIV case-reporting

This document is a follow-up to the Technical Consultation on Notification, Confidentiality and HIV/AIDS in Windhoek, and the International Consultation on HIV Reporting and Disclosure (Geneva), and draws from the expertise and input made at these meetings in an effort to offer assistance in answeri...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Opening%20up%20the%20HIV%20AIDS%20epidemic...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 19 hours ago 158 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidelines on Sanitation and Health

Safe sanitation is essential for health, from preventing infection to improving and maintaining mental and social well-being. The lack of safe sanitation contributes to diarrhoea, a major public health concern and a leading cause of disease and death among children under five years in low- and middl...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Guidelines%20on%20sanitation%20and%20Healt...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Environmental Health and Sanitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 hours ago 135 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 20: COVID-19 Pandemic 2 June 2020

No new country or territory is reporting cases for the first time but one country (Rwanda) is reporting deaths for the first time this week. The distribution of cumulative cases (proportion of global cases %) from the WHO reporting regions (excluding Africa) are as follows: Eastern Mediterranean Reg...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-19-covid-19-pandemic-26-may-2020-2/?ind=1591267802263&...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 Minutes ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Zambia

The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Zambia 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/finding-the-balance-public-health-and-social-measures-in-zambia/?ind=...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 124 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

World health statistics 2017: monitoring health for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals

World Health Statistics 2017 focuses on the health and health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets by bringing together data on a wide range of relevant SDG indicators. In some cases, as indicator definitions are being refined and baseline data are being collected, pro...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/World%20Health%20Statistics%202017_0.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 19 hours ago 120 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Plan of Action for Sexual and Gender Based Violence and Violence Against Children

Violence affects the lives of many Ugandans and when not fatal, can have long-lasting consequences. Deaths are only a fraction of the health and social burden arising from gender based violence and violence against children. Women and girls, children and the elderly bear a higher burden of non-fatal...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Plan%20of%20Action%20for%20SGBV...
Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Gender Based Violence
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 18 hours ago 159 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Towards tuberculosis elimination: an action framework for low-incidence countries

This Framework offers a coherent approach for eliminating tuberculosis (TB) in low-incidence countries. It is designed to guide national policy-makers and those responsible for technical aspects of the national TB response in accelerating efforts towards elimination. The document will also be inform...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Towards%20TB%20elimination.pdf
Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 121 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Malaria Status report Week 4, 2019

Reporting rate this week (83.9%) was similar to that in the previous week, 2019W2 (83.6%).There was a 7.2% drop in reported malaria cases (125,427 in W3 vs. 116,330 cases this week).�Adjumani, Nwoya & Moyo Districts reported the highest confirmed incidence rates ��15 cases/1,000 population.�Almost h...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Malaria%20Status%20Report%20Week%204%20201...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 127 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Report on Midyear Health Sector Performance Review: (July to December) FY 2010/11

The review for the health sector performance for the first and second Quarters (July to December 2010/11 Financial Year) was conducted from 13th to 14th January 2011 at Kabira Country Club Hotel, Kampala. The general objective of the workshop was to assess the performance of the Ministry of Health d...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Report%20on%20Mid-year%20review%20of%20the...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 159 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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