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Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 21: 18th - 24th May 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 brin...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
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Weekly Malaria Report - Epi Week 47

This weekly report is a national representation of malaria indicators for the period of 20th November to 26th November 2023.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 hours ago 129 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 9, 27th February - 5th March, 2017

The proportion of health facilities that reported was 81.4% reflecting a 7.8% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2016. Only 15.5% (18/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 60.3% (70/116) of the districts achieved the national target of 80%. Only o...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 123 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Social determinants of sexual and reproductive health

While the last two decades have seen improvements in access to and utilization of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, progress in many countries has been slow and - after decades of investments - disappointing. Social activists and health analysts have highlighted the potential role that...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 21 Minutes ago 143 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 107: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 107: 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...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 123 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Harmonised Policy on Facilitating Government Officials and Members of Non-Governmental Entities participating in activities funded by Development Partners

Harmonisation of Development Partner practices on the provision of allowances is critical for the effective delivery of off-budget interventions and avoiding contradictions in how�implementing agencies facilitate public officials to do their work in service of the people of�Uganda.�This revised poli...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 156 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Mastercard Foundation: Saving Lives and Livelihoods Newsletter, January 2022

Supporting delivery of vaccinations to millions more across the continent: The Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative is investing in a spectrum of activities required to turn vaccines into vaccinations, including safe storage and transportation of vaccines, ancillaries, and other supplies; to esta...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 131 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

African Union and the Africa CDCs Africa Regulatory Taskforce has endorsed the Emergency Used Authorization for Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine

The document titled African Union and the Africa CDC’s Africa Regulatory Taskforce has endorsed the Emergency Used Authorization for Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses cr...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 18 hours ago 131 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 151: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 151: 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...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
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Inaugural Newsletter: Welcome to Africa Centres for Disease Control and Preventions Health Economics Programme

The Africa CDC’s Health Economics Programme (HEP) has been established to support Member States – and our internal offices – navigate difficult decisions by equipping them with strong health economics evidence. The HEP will also mobilize the broader health economics community to strengthen continent...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence 1005

The thirty-eighth meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from 14 to 18 November 2016. Dr Suzanne Hill, Director, WHO Department of Essential Medicines and Health Products (EMP), opened the meeting. She welcomed all...

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Theme: Prevention
Sub Theme: Pharmaceuticals and Drugs
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 144 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Female sex worker HIV prevention projects: Lessons learnt from Papua New Guinea, India and Bangladesh

The set of case studies in this collection emerged from a session entitled Best Practices in Female Sex Worker Projects held at the Fourth International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific in Manila, October 1997. Preparation for the session began in May 1997 when UNAIDS sponsored an effort to...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 20 hours ago 132 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Vaccine R&D and Vaccine Manufacturing Competency Frameworks

I am delighted to introduce the Competency Frameworks for Vaccine Manufacturing and Research and Development Competency Frameworks, which have been prepared through collaborative efforts with key stakeholders in the industry, supported by Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CD...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Vaccine Manufacturing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 6 hours ago 137 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Quarterly Newsletter of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, March 2020

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic took the world by surprise as it spread rapidly from China to Europe, the Americas, and other parts of the globe. Africa seemed to have been spared in the early days of the outbreak and this gave African countries time to plan, prepare and work togeth...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Implementing the WHO stop TB strategy : A handbook for national tuberculosis control programmes

This publication draws upon current guidelines and information documents issued by the World Health Organization (WHO), which provide more detailed guidance on implementation for each of the specific subject areas. The listed references are limited to key readings for implementation of programme act...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
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Weekly Malaria Report - Epi Week 34

The document is a statistical report on malaria activities occurring at the various administrative levels during the reporting period.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 6 hours ago 126 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Mpox Surveillance Reporting Protocol for African Union Member States

Mpox is a zoonotic infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV). The disease presents symptoms similar to smallpox but with lesser severity. The first human case of mpox was recorded in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and has subsequently been recognized as an endemic d...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 218 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidelines for the Decentralisation of the Uganda Medical Board

The Ministry of Health (MoH) through the Hospital and Lower level Health facilities division developed these guidelines for�decentralisation� of the Uganda Medical Board� in regards to retirement of civil servants on medical grounds.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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The Use of Pulse Oximeter by Public & Healthcare Providers in the Community for Suspected and Confirmed COVID-19 Cases

The document titled The Use of Pulse Oximeter by Public & Healthcare Providers in the Community for Suspected and Confirmed COVID-19 Cases offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health chall...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 18 hours ago 130 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Pharmaceutical Sector Strategic Plan iii 2015-2020

The third National Pharmaceutical Sector Strategic Plan 2015/16-2019/20 (NPSSP III) has been developed to support the implementation of the National Medicines Policy (NMP) 2015. The NPSSP III was developed through wide consultations with diverse stakeholders including representatives from the privat...

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Theme: Prevention
Sub Theme: Pharmaceuticals and Drugs
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