The document titled Outbreak Brief 70: 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 Guide emphasises practical teaching, projects, and acquisition of skills by the learner. The competences that learners are expected to acquire are clearly spelt out in each module covered in the semester. You should ensure that learners are well-versed with practical work. The teaching methodolo...
A standard operating procedure (SOP) is a set of systematic instructions compiled by an organization to help workers carry out complex routine operations. SOPs aim to achieve efficiency, quality output and uniformity of performance, while reducing miscommunication and failure to comply with regulati...
The goal of the strategy is to establish and strengthen the community health system as part of the larger national health system, in order to bring services closer to the community and ensure equitable distribution of community and household-centred health care services. The general objective is to...
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 report presents the Uganda Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) Project��s progress in the fourth quarter of Year One (period covering July 1st through September 30th 2010). The report outlines the key project activities and achievements in the quarter, the challenges and constraints faced, lessons l...
SARA Identifies at the percentage of facilities that offer a particular health intervention (service availability) as well as whether facilities offering the service have the minimum set of items (equipment, trained staff and guidelines, diagnostic capacity, and medicines) in order to provide an ade...
Nationally, about 5 million cases of malaria,�diarrhoea, and pneumonia annually are brought to�care late or go untreated; hence, integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) addresses�an unmet need.� The iCCM strategy accelerates the reduction in childhood�mortality, which is still soaring high in Ug...
Palliative care meets the needs of all patients requiring relief from symptoms, and the needs of patients and their families for psychosocial and supportive care. This is particularly true when patients are in advanced stages and have a very low chance of being cured, or when they are facing the ter...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 153: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic offers a comprehensive insight into Surveillance and Disease Intelligence, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Norther...
The document titled Report on the Virtual joint Meeting of African Ministers of Health, ICT and Transport 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, East...
The overall purpose of the review was to estimate the extent to which the Member State mechanism had progressed in achieving its objectives in the period 2012-2016; to identify gaps and remaining challenges; and to make recommendations on the way forward.
The African Centre for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (ACTV) is humbled to present to you the 2015. Annual Report that gives an account of the activities undertaken by ACTV from January 2015 to December 2015. It reflects on the lessons learnt in the period, the challenges faced and...
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 Ministry of Health (MoH) with support from Implementing Partners (IPs) across the country has been able to train key personnel from 112 districts in iHRIS - a web based electronic system. The trainees included people from the Ministry of Health Headquarters, District CAOs, HR officers, Biostatis...
This Family Planning (FP) Research and Learning Agenda presents a great opportunity for the country to tailor future research to respond to key FP evidence gaps; synthesize, package, and promote the use of existing evidence to ensure future investments are evidence-based; harmonize stakeholder effor...
The April 2007 Technical review meeting (4th MOH TRM) noted that whereas there were positive steps taken to improve on overall management of Essential Medicines and Health Supplies (EMHS), stock outs of essential medicines were still common. This was mainly attributed to under funding but the actual...
The terms ��hygiene�� and ��sanitation�� can mean different things to different people. For the purposes of this document the term ��sanitation�� is used to refer to the management of human excreta. The term ��hygiene�� is used to refer to the behaviours/ measures, including but beyond the managemen...
Keeping clean and disposing of human waste (feces and urine) are necessary for good health. If they are not taken care of in a safe way, our feces and urine can pollute the environment and cause serious health problems, such as diarrhea, worms, cholera, and bladder infections. Many of these problems...
This publication is about the statistics of the malaria case weekly reporting in Uganda.
