2. RATIONALE FOR THE IPC LEGAL FRAMEWORK In October 2017, Africa CDC officially launched its Framework for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Control, 2018-2023. One major component of this strategy involves decreasing the burden of antimicrobial resistance, particularly in healthcare settings. In April...
The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Egypt 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...
The purpose of this policy document is to seek to ensure that Human Resources for Health, and their related functions are given the prominence, importance and resource allocations they require as the most crucial factor for health service delivery. It addresses a number of salient Human Resources fo...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 83: 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...
The document is a comparative analysis and documentation of the processes that have enabled teams to implement HMM in various settings. It complements other WHO publications on the subject (WHO, 2004, 2005) in that it focuses on the processes, challenges, and lessons learnt in implementing the HMM s...
The Clients Charter was introduced under the Public Service Reform Programme, as a tool to strengthen the demand side of accountability for service delivery. In this regard, the clients charter has been embranced in the health sector. This charter spells out the roles, responsibilities and commitme...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 145: 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...
In 2009, Uganda received support from the Global Program for Reproductive Health Commodity Security (GPRHCS) to assist the�Ministry of Health in developing a national strategy. The strategy focused on logistics management to improve the functionality of the national and district Reproductive Health...
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...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 49: 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 brief builds on the September 2020 “Responding to COVID-19 in Africa: Using Data to Find a Balance” report from the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC). It delves deeper into findings from PERC’s 24,000-person survey conducted in 18 African Union (AU) Member States betwee...
During Week 7 of 2017, the proportion of health facilities that reported was 81.3% reflecting a 7.8% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2016. Only 11.2% (13/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 61.2% (71/116) of the districts achieved the nationa...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 86: 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...
In this analysis, we explained to what extent satellite data (as a proxy for environmental conditions) are correlated with household survey data. Whilst correlation abviously does not automatically imply causation, we suggest an evironmental approach is more likely to reveal causes than will the tra...
Section A provides an overview of progress against the parameters specified in the MDG target for water and sanitation, in both urban and rural areas. It presents data for the world as a whole, and compares progress across regions. The report goes on to examine trends over the MDG period by region a...
The three strategic priorities of WHO stated in its Thirteenth General Programme of Work 2019-2023 are to advance universal health coverage, address health emergencies and promote healthier populations (1). The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines contains the medications considered to be the most...
The fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) �� to reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate �� is ambitious, but achievable. Currently, more than 10 million children under five die each year, four million of them in the first month. It is estimated that around two-t...
The Statistical Abstract is an annual publication compiled by Uganda Bureau of Statistics, which provides the statistical summary on various socio-economic indicators for Uganda. Some figures in this edition may vary from those in the earlier editions due to the updates. Note that some of the CY 201...
Child mortality is a core indicator for child health and well-being. In 2000, world leaders agreed on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and called for reducing the under-five mortality rate by two thirds between 1990 and 2015 - known as the MDG 4 target.
Globally, new HIV infections among young women (aged 15-24 years) were reduced by 25% between 2010 and 2018. This is good news, but of course, it remains unacceptable that 6000 adolescent girls and young women become infected with HIV every week. The sexual and reproductive health and rights of wome...
