The core list presents a list of minimum medicine needs for a basic health��care system, listing the most efficacious, safe and cost��effective medicines for priority conditions. Priority conditions are selected on the basis of current and estimated future public health relevance, and potential for...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 were adopted by the United Nations in 2015. One of the targets is to end the global TB epidemic. The WHO End TB Strategy, approved by the World Health Assembly in 2014, calls for a 90% reduction in TB deaths and an 80% reduction in the TB incidence r...
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Surgical Care at the District Hospital provides a comprehensive guide to surgical procedures that are commonly performed at the district hospital. It is intentionally limited to emergency and very common problems and is not designed as a major textbook of surgery. The manual is presented in seven pa...
Antiretroviral medicines Public sector: NMS is well stocked with ARV medicines above 3 MOS except EFV 600mg, ATV/r 300/100mg and LPV/r 100/25mg with less than 3 MOS. Stock is available in country for TDF/3TC/EFV 300/300/600mg (3.5 MOS), TDF/3TC/DTG 300/300/50mg (3.1 MOS), DTG 50mg (4.2 MOS), ABC/3TC...
The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Nigeria 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...
This Guide is intended to help those responsible for providing services aimed at reducing the burden posed by cervical cancer for women, communities and health systems. It focuses on the knowledge and skills needed by health care providers, at different levels of care, in order to offer quality serv...
The HIV/AIDS epidemic is a global crisis and constitutes one of the most formidable obstacles towards sustainable development and social progress. In the most affected countries, the impact of HIV/AIDS poses a severe threat to every aspect of life, as it erodes decades of developmental gains and thr...
Supporting delivery of vaccinations to millions more across the continent: The Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative is investing in a spectrum of activities required to turn vaccines into vaccinations, including safe storage and transportation of vaccines, ancillaries, and other supplies; to esta...
Uganda is currently using the IDSR strategy to improve the National disease and events surveillance system. Using standard case definitions to identify priority diseases and events of public health importance is one of the core functions of surveillance under the IDSR strategy
Development of the gender statistics profiles is anchored in the Beijing Platform for Action, which underscores the need for gender analysis as one of the critical starting point for gender mainstreaming. The main objectives of compiling the gender statistics profile were to establish the level of...
The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Cameroon 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, Norther...
This job aide is a detailed step-by-step procedure, summarising the process for decontamination of ambulances used to transport patients with confirmed or suspected EVD to avoid�the contamination of health workers, other patients and caregivers. This procedure should be performed after each patient�...
The SARA-hospital/HC IV census survey was a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Health, African Development Bank, and the World Health Organization. It was undertaken to provide information on availability of services and ability of hospitals and level IV primary care facilities to provide...
The Ministry of Health and development partners have provided targeted nutrition interventions to selected�districts and health facilities using the nutrition assessment, counselling, and support (NACS) approach in�services for people living with HIV (PLHIV).�The NACS approach strengthens the broade...
This publication is about the malaria case statistics of Uganda in the 16th week of 2018.
The Guideline for managing private wings sets a minimum management system, structures, processes, and expectations that the health units should have. All hospitals should use these guidelines as the basic foundation upon which they manage the private wing services.
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...
Geographic Focus: Reports could either focus on events affecting single country or multiple countries.Inclusion criteria: While Africa CDC continues to track all public health events on the continent, this report highlights only moderate to very high-risk events (with new updates in the reporting we...
This manual was developed over a period of three years through workshops and field-testing with important inputs from health programme managers in many developing countries. Financial and Technical support was provided by UNICEF.
