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27th National Health Sector Joint Review Mission Aide Memoire

The 27th Health Sector JRM was organized by the MoH in collaboration with Health Development Partners (HDPs), Civil Society (CSOs) and the Private sector. The theme of the JRM was ��Strengthening Emergency and Critical Care Services as a Catalyst to Improving Quality of Care Uganda��. The key note...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Hand hygiene can save your life

The document titled Hand hygiene can save your life 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 valuable gui...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 105 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National Implementation Guidelines for HIV Counselling and Testing in Uganda

Uganda has a mature generalised HIV epidemic with prevalence exceeding 6% and an estimated one million people living with HIV1. Sub-national longitudinal studies2 and indirect estimates3 indicate a rising rate of new infections with HIV incidence ranging from 0.2-2.0% in different regions of the cou...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Operational Guide for Establishing and Implementing Mortality Surveillance in Africa, July 2024

In response to the growing necessity for accurate and timely information regarding deaths categorized by age, sex, and cause of death, underscored by the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) developed the Continental Framework d...

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Theme: Detection
Sub Theme: Mortality Surveillance
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 129 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin Week 43:21st-27th Oct 2019

During week 43, the country experienced low reporting rates �National rate was 81.2% compared 76.4% of week 42.�Central regional had 71.4% compared to 68.2% in week 42�Eastern region had 78.3% compared to 70.5% in week 42�Western region had 88.1% compared to 81.2% in week 42�Northern region had the...

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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 32 Minutes ago 160 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

State of World Population 2019

These two events��the launch of the first United Nations agency dedicated to addressing population growth and the reproductive health needs of the world��s people, and the declaration of a global commitment to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights��have fundamentally shaped the live...

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Theme: Data Analytics
Sub Theme: Demographics
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 2 days ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

AU Heads of State and Government endorse African common position on controlling Antimicrobial Resistance

The document titled AU Heads of State and Government endorse African common position on controlling Antimicrobial Resistance offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within C...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 days ago 136 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Annual Health Sector Performance Report Financial Year 2019/20

The Annual Health Sector Performance Report highlights progress, challenges, lessons learnt and proposes mechanisms for improvement. The report focuses on the progress in implementation of commitments in the Ministerial Policy Statement, overall sector performance against the targets set for the Fin...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 161 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (16 June 2020)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (16 June 2020) 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, North...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-16-june-2020/?ind...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 131 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Policy Recommendation for African Union Meetings and Travel During COVID-19 Outbreak

The document titled Africa CDC Policy Recommendation for African Union Meetings and Travel During COVID-19 Outbreak offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Af...

https://africacdc.org/download/africa-cdc-policy-recommendation-for-african-union-meetings-and-trave...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 130 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 133 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Sanitation and Cleanliness for a Healthy Environment

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...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Environmental Health and Sanitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 133 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Guidelines on the management of latent tuberculosis infection

These Guidelines on the management of latent tuberculosis infection were developed in accordance to the requirements and recommended process of the WHO Guideline Review Committee, and provide public health approach guidance on evidence-based practices for testing, treating and managing LTBI in infec...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 147 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

PPE for screening and triage in the context of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)

This job aide is a detailed step-by-step procedure for PPE screening and triage in the context of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 123 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Quality Improvement Training Guide 2022

The 5S Quality Improvement (QI) Training Guide comes to address the current gap of inadequacy of the required materials for developing capacity towards improved implementation of 5S and QI in the country. There is increasing demand towards sharing knowledge to fulfil ability and one potential to per...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 120 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Questions and answers on mask wearing

The document titled Questions and answers on mask wearing 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, We...

https://africacdc.org/download/questions-and-answers-on-mask-wearing/?ind=1612193126484&filename=Que...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 113 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The 2015 Quality of Death Index Ranking palliative care across the world

Everyone hopes for a good death, or rather, ��a good life to the very end��1, but until recently there was little dedicated effort and investment to provide the resources and education that would make that possible. Public engagement and policy interventions to improve the quality of death through...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Non-communicable diseases and risk factors
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 119 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 123: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 123: 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-123-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=16...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 125 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Human Resources for Health Audit Report 2017

The HRH audits and production of reports over the seven years have been supported and funded by projects under USAID funding. The reports enabled the Ministry to monitor the staffing levels, staffing gaps and skills shortagges of the health workers (HWs) in all the Public Health Facilities; and to k...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 128 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Nutrition And Health Assessment In Internally Displaced People's Camps

This assessment was conducted to assess the health and nutrition status in all the 53 IDP camps in former Gulu District. It covered all the 5 counties of former Gulu district which include; Omoro, Kilak, Nwoya, Aswa and Gulu Municipality.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 6 Minutes ago 121 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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