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...

Guidelines for Designation, Establishment and Upgrading of Health Units

These guidelines have been prepared by the Ministry of Health to enhance economy, efficiency and effectiveness in infrastructure development and harmonise it with other inputs to improve service delivery in the health sector. They are specifically aimed at providing criteria and procedures for desig...

Malaria weekly Status report Week 6, 2019

Reporting rate this week (77.8%) is a marginal rise from 75.7% in the previous week, 2019W5.There was a further 9% drop in reported malaria cases (96,488 this week vs. 105,566 in W5)�There was marginal drop in malaria incidence. As was last week, Adjumani (13 cases) & Moyo (18 cases) Districts repor...

National Community Health Strategy

The development of Uganda's Community Health Strategy 2021/22-2025/26 was through concerted efforts involving many stakeholders that are actively involved with the delivery of community health services across the country.�The core business of Uganda's first-ever National Community Health Strategy is...

Guidance on pooled testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

The document titled Guidance on pooled testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (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...

Africa CDC Weekly Event Based Surveillance Report, February 2023

Fifty-four (98%) MS are currently providing COVID-19 vaccination to the general population. Cumulatively, 898 million doses have been administered on the continent. Of these doses administered, 440.7 million people have been partially vaccinated, 412.2 million have been fully vaccinated, and 45.1 mi...

Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 36: 31st AUG-6th SEP 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. This issue, we showcas...

IPC Scorecard

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).

Rapid Assessment of the New Malaria Treatment Policy Implementation

The burden of disease due to malaria in Uganda is unacceptably high and the resistance of the malaria parasites to Chloroquine (CQ) and Sulfadoxine/Pyrimethamine (SP) has aggravated the situation. Because of this, in May 2004, the Ministry of Health decided to change the malaria treatment policy fro...

World Malaria Report 2019

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...

Local Government Performance Assessment - FY 2018/2019 National Synthesis Report

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...

Community use of face masks

The document titled Community use of face masks 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 Africa, Western Afri...

Guidelines for management of community health workforce 2016

The first section is the introduction. The purpose of this section is to give the structural outline of the document. It is under this section that the justification (the why?) of the guidelines is presented. The other sub-sections include a brief description of how the guidelines were developed and...

Nutrition Care and Support for People Living with HIV

Pre-Labour Rupture of Memranes

Pre-Labour Rupture of Memranes

Tuberculosis and Leprosy Case Management Desk Guide 2019

This TB and Leprosy Management Desk Guide is produced by the Ministry of Health National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Programme based on current Tuberculosis and Leprosy guidelines and field implementation experiences. The flip chart is intended to support the roll out of updated guidelines and serve as...

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...

Statement on medications to treat Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

The document titled Statement on medications to treat Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) 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...

The regulatory and certification framework for institutions handling high risk pathogens in the Africa Region

In response, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), supported by its regional and global partners, in collaboration with AU Member States, in 2019 launched the Regional Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiative (BBI). The goal of the BBI is to strengthen the biosafety and bio...

Weekly Executive Brief - Week 26

This brief provides an overview of; OPD attendance, notifiable diseases, other diseases of public health interest and causes of death.