The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (03 August 2021) 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...
Health Information System (HIS) is the processes and mechanisms through which health��related data is produced and made accessible to users, through networking within and outside the Health Sector. HIS has several sub��systems, each with specialized roles and responsibilities based on their comparat...
There is evidence that Uganda is making progress toward the MDG 4 &5 targets by 2015 but this progress needs to be accelerated. Under- fi ve mortality rate declined from 152 per 1000 live births in 2000 to 137 in 2006 while the infant mortality rate declined by 76 from 88 per 1000 live births during...
This publication is about how to make safe blood especially for tranfusion. Making blood free of contegious diseases like HIV/AIDS thus reducing the risk of transmitting such diseases.
The MTCT-Plus Initiative was conceived in 2001 as a response to the five-point Call to Action on HIV/AIDS issued by Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General. Designed to increase access to HIV/AIDS care and treatment in resource-limited settings, the Initiative built on the dramatic changes that...
The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in DRC 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 Afr...
This year��s World Health Report comes at a time when only a decade is left to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which set internationally agreed development aspirations for the world��s population to be met by 2015. These goals have underlined the importance of improving health, and...
Uganda was one of the first African countries to respond aggressively to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, moving rapidly to institute measures aimed at preventing HIV transmission. HIV prevalence rates once described as being among the highest in Africa and tending toward 30% have declined to under 10 % withi...
So far, seven African countries have already surpassed the target of vaccinating at least 70 of the population eligible for Covid-19 Vaccination according to the WHO Liberia and Rwanda have fully vaccinated their eligible populations, while Mauritius and Botswana have vaccinated 94 percent Over 90 o...
The diseases afflicting the African population are responsible for a substantial loss in health, estimated at 704 765 879 DALYs in 2015 alone. In the WHO African Region, total losses amounted to 629 603 271 DALYs. Out of that total, 416 671 978 DALYs (59.1 %) were from communicable, maternal, perina...
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. � In this issue, we br...
The document titled Africa CDC Statement on Anti-Corruption and Zero Tolerance to Fraud offers a comprehensive insight into Administration, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern A...
A clear understanding of the knowledge, attitudes and practices of a particular community can inform the design of Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) campaigns to influence acceptance and use of any malaria control measures. Research to clearly determine what interventions to carry out has not bee...
Weekly reporting improved to 74% in week 19 from 60% in the previous week,28 deaths due to malaria have been reported this week. Confirmed incidence of Malaria is highest in West Nile, greater than 6 people per 1,000 population. Test Positivity Rate is highest in the Western Region, West Nile and so...
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...
This Citizens�� Report Card (CRC) provides perceptions of healthcare users on service accessibility, availability and quality at selected health facilities in the districts of Bushenyi and Lira. The CRC was prepared by Uganda National Health Consumers�� Organisation (UNHCO) and Coalition for Health...
In January 2017, the Executive Board at its 140th session adopted resolution EB140.R6, in which it recommended to the Seventieth World Health Assembly the adoption of the scale of assessments for the financial period 2018��2019 set out in that resolution.
The third National Pharmaceutical Sector Strategic Plan 2015/16-2019/20 (NPSSP III) has been developed to support the implementation of the National Medicines Policy (NMP) 2015. The NPSSP III was developed through wide consultations with diverse stakeholders including representatives from the privat...
Unsafe use of injections contributes to the spread of diseases, including EVD.�Injection Safety in the context of an EVD outbreak presentation is part of the EVD IPC training material for HC IIs and pharmacies.
The implementation of HRIS in countries with no approved policies geared towards supporting its use and management has several challenges, but that should not over rid and prevent its implementation due to its advantages. In this paper we present the HRIS implementation process (strategies, approach...
