The document titled Outbreak Brief 146: 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...
Scientific publications, including reports by several expert panels, published since 2003 have provided a strong foundation for the present advisory note. This note essentially replaces the 2003 recommendation by Scientific Advisory Committee on Tobacco Product Regulation (2004).
The NMS Act Cap 207 states that the corporation shall advise the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Ministry of Local Government and National Drug Authority on essential issues relating to the state of the Corporation and its future development as well as to...
Comparable to the previous week, all 112 districts reported and with an average reporting rate of 83.3% in week 28, 2016. This represents a 15.5% increase in reporting rate compared to the same week in 2015. A total of 23% (26/112) had 100% of all their health facilities reporting and 50% (66/112) o...
This booklet provides summary statistics from various statistical publications compiled by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS). The statistics give indication of current social and economic trends in the country. Reference should be made to more detailed published
Uganda has a large young population; approximately 52.7% of the population is under 15 years of age. One in every four Ugandans (23.3%) is an adolescent and one in every three (37.4%) is a young person.
The document titled Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiative 2021 – 2025 Strategic Plan offers a comprehensive insight into Biosafety and Biosecurity, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Sou...
This research report is one of the policy analyses prepared by ACODE to assess the governance of public expenditure (hereafter, public expenditure governance or PEG) in Uganda��s health, road, education and agriculture sectors. The report is premised against the dimensions of governance elaborated i...
This brief provides an overview of; OPD attendance, notifiable diseases, other diseases of public health interest and�causes of death.
From the reviews of Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) submissions to Cabinet, a number of gaps were identified. The gaps included; poor problem identification, poor options analysis and poor structuring of some reports which had resulted into selection of inefficient, ineffective and irrelevant opt...
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...
IPC Scorecard presentation is an EVD IPC training material to help health facilities collect information about the health facility assessment. The Scorecard is not for EVD treatment centres (separate assessment).
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...
The 2018 Local Government Performance Assessment (LG PA) Report is the second edition under the new Local Government Assessment framework. The assessment was conducted between September-October 2018 with involvement of the Local Government Performance Assessment Task force, Ministries, Departments a...
During Week 5 of 2017, the proportion of health facilities that reported was 82.4% indicating a 4.4% increase in comparison to the same week in 2015. Only 19% (22/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 60.3% (70/116) of the districts achieved the national target of 80%. Onl...
Anaesthesia training program. Uganda��s population has increased to 34 million people which calls for increase Health Centre IVs (HCIVs), districts, and Regional Referral Hospitals (RRHs). The training programme will take two (2) years, consisting of four (4) semesters with assessments carried out f...
This bulletin serves to inform all stakeholders at community, district and national levels on suspected disease trends, public health surveillance and interventions undertaken in detecting, preventing and responding to public health events in Uganda on a weekly basis.
The report also tracks a set of indicators outlined in the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) advocacy plan, Action and investment to defeat malaria 2016-2030 (AIM) (2) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (3) - a set of interconnected global goals seen as a plan of action for people, the planet and pr...
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The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in DRC 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 Afr...
