This Competence-Based Education and Training (CBET) curriculum consists of three major parts, sequentially developed by combined panels of practitioners and tutors, guided by DACUM process and TVET Facilitators as follows: Part I: Occupational Profile Part II: Training Modules Part III: Sample Asses...
The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Morocco 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...
We are pleased to share our 42nd weekly epidemiological bulletin for the year 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 respond...
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. This issue, we showcas...
This publication is about the malaria case statistics of Uganda in the 2nd week of 2019.
The policy provides a simple set of guidelines to enable local level health care managers and providers to make the best decisions they can on what oral health strategies to implement.� It is a flexible decision-making framework that enables health managers to adapt the most effective oral health in...
The document titled Africa CDC Newsletter – December 2018 offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa, Western Africa, providing valuab...
The purpose of this HRH Strategic plan is therefore to provide a framework for planning, developing and managing a well-performing health workforce in Uganda. It relates the health workforce with the current and future health needs, with emphasis on improved effectiveness and efficiency in the use o...
[1] WHO COVID-19 surveillance guidance and case definition: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/surveillance-and-case-definitions[2] WHO coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation reports: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/si...
This National Immunization Programme Review (NIPR) integrated the EPI review with an operational research study to assess the barriers to utilization of EPI services, Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination post-validation assessment (MNTE-PVA) and assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on immunizat...
The document titled African Antibiotic Treatment Guidelines for Common Bacterial Infections and Syndromes – Recommended Antibiotic Treatments in Adult Patients offers a comprehensive insight into Antimicrobial Resistance Control, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses cri...
HIV and AIDS continue to affect the lives of millions around the world. But they are not faceless millions. Almost all of us know a friend, family member or co-worker who has been affected. In our work as United Nations employees, we also see at first hand how the pandemic is ravaging the developing...
The WHA 54.11 WHO medicines strategy acknowledged the four main objectives of WHO��s medicines strategy, namely, to frame and implement policy; to ensure access; to ensure quality, safety and efficacy; and to promote rational use of medicines. The WHO medicines strategy 2004-2007 presents the strate...
2015 confirmed a significant recent trend in the flagship WHO Model List of Essential Medicines with groundbreaking new treatments for hepatitis C and a varietyof cancers included in the list despite their high prices. The list also included five new medicines for multidrug resistant tuberculosis (T...
The PIP Framework aims to balance virus sharing with benefit sharing on an equal footing. Advances in vaccine, antiviral and diagnostic technology alone are not enough to protect a world against a pandemic. Whereas access to health services and products remains unequal around the world, the influenz...
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...
This Nutrition Country Profile of the Republic of Uganda was prepared by Dr. Joyce Kakuramatsi Kikafunda, Associate Professor of Food and Nutritional Sciences at the Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, in collaboration with Estelle...
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...
The document titled Core Values of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) offers a comprehensive insight into Other, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, South...
The Global status report on road safety 2018, launched by WHO in December 2018, highlights that the number of annual road traffic deaths has reached 1.35 million. Road traffic injuries are now the leading killer of people aged 5-29 years. The burden is disproportionately borne by pedestrians, cyclis...
