* The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) * Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) * United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) * United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Africa CDC would like to express its great appreciations to the African Soc...
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...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (20 July 2022) 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, North...
The Ministry of Health (MOH), through the Department of Pharmaceuticals and Natural Medicines (DPNM), executed the national integrated quantification for all Essential Medicines and Health Supplies (EMHS) for the financial year 2024/25.�As a result, the total commodity need for routine service deliv...
Sayeh Ezzikouri, Raji Tajudeen, Hind Majidi, Soad Redwane, Safaa Aqillouch, Mohammed Abdulaziz, Merawi Aragaw, Mosoka Papa Fallah, Senga Sembuche, Serge Batcho, Patrick Kabwe, Elizabeth Gonese, Oumaima Laazaazia, Mohcine Elmessaoudi-Idrissi, Nadia Meziane, Abdelhakim Ainahi, M’hammed Sarih, Ahmed E....
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Policy Guidelines are designed to promote Mental Health and prevent Mental, Neurological and Substance use disorders among children and adolescents. These guidelines are a statement by the Government of Uganda to set a clear direction in development of Mental,...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 72: 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 effort also assists Member States in complying with international requirements and regulations, such as the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005), the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), and United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540.To ensure a comprehensive and sustainab...
As of 6 p.m. East African Time (EAT) 9 October 2022, a total of 12,079,592 COVID-19 cases and 255,843 deaths (CFR: 2.1%) have been reported by the 55 African Union (AU) Member States (MS). This represents 2% of all cases and 4% of all deaths reported globally. Forty (73%) AU MS are reporting CFRs hi...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (31 August 2021) 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, Nor...
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a popular global health policy agenda and particularly in Uganda, the health ambition is now aligned to the UHC target. This brief provides an understanding of UHC progress in Uganda, by examining healthcare coverage and equity based on reproductive, maternal, new-...
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 weeklybasis. � In this issue, we bri...
This Learner's Guide, Part I of the module on the Diagnosis and Management of Severe Falciparum Malaria, is made up of teaching materials, problems and a picture quiz covering all the activities involved in diagnosing and managing severe falciparum malaria at the hospital level. This guide is based...
This publication discusses the rationale and relevance of clinical mentoring to the public health approach to scaling up HIV care and antiretroviral therapy (antiretroviral therapy). This discussion is based on the Planning Consultation on Clinical Mentoring: Approaches and Tools to Support Scaling-...
The document titled Position Statement on Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 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 Africa, Southern...
The Adolescent Girls Multilevel Vulnerability Index (AGI) was developed based on a growing recognition of the need to channel resources to vital��yet highly vulnerable and vastly underserved��populations of adolescent girls in Uganda specifically, and the East and Southern Africa region in general....
This document offers snapshots of the Madagascar GSF experience in CLTS to a wider audience. Madagascar had all usual national level challenges that generally block or slow down the pace of scaling up of CLTS. How these challenges have been� addressed and transformed into an apparently snowballing s...
This Summary presents an overview of the results of thefirst, second and third rounds of WHO Product Testing of malaria antigen-detecting RDTs completed in 2008, 2009 and 2011 respectively, and is published in conjunction with the release of the results of Round 3. The results of the three rounds of...
Uganda hosts approximately 1.1 million refugees making it Africa��s largest refugee hosting country and one of the five largest refugee hosting countries in the world. Most recently, throughout 2016-2018, Uganda was impacted by three parallel emergencies from South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of...
The purpose of this report is to inform the Ministry of Health and all stakeholders of the stock levels in the country as a tool that enables appropriate logistics decision making . This report highlights stock status, real challenges, bottlenecks but also recommends potential solutions to mitigate...
