The outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa is unprecedented in its scale, severity, and complexity. Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are still affected by this outbreak, and are struggling to control the epidemic against a backdrop of extreme poverty, weak health systems and social...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 73: 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...
As of today, the following countries have more than 70 per cent of the populations fully vaccinated Mauritius, Seychelles, Rwanda, Comoros, Tanzania, Somalia, Liberia, Cape Verde, Morocco, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, and Sao Tome and Principe.Africa has registered over 12 million COVID-19 cases si...
The job aide is a step-by-step procedure of�handling linen of suspected, confirmed or probable EVD cases at Ebola Treatment Units, healthcare facilities, or within the�community (household).� Contaminated linen poses a risk of infection and should only be handled in PPE.
The 2000-2001 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) was the third national Demographic and Health Survey in a series that started in 1988, with the second conducted in 1995. The major objective of these surveys was to collect and analyse data on fertility, mortality, family planning, and healt...
In the strategies for effective infection prevention and control (IPC), what does triage entail at hospitals? Triage includes screening at the entrance, identification of cases and isolation if necessary. There should be a triage (screening) area where visitors to the hospital are interviewed using...
The draft global action plan on the public health response to dementia has close conceptual and 5.strategic links to, and builds upon, other global action plans and strategies adopted or endorsed by the World Health Assembly including: WHO��s Comprehensive mental health action plan 2013-2020,1 the G...
The Revealing the Toll of COVID-19 technical package contains step-by-step guidance on the collection, analysis and use of all-cause mortality data collected through facility- or community-based surveillance.The technical package has been developed by Vital Strategies, in partnership with the Africa...
The National Health Accounts (NHA) survey in Uganda dates back to early 2000s and this report that covers a period from FY 2016/17 to FY 2018/19, is the eighth round of NHA for this country and records health expenditure in Uganda using the 2011 edition of System of Health Accounts (SHA-2011). The c...
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...
The document titled Statement on Herbal Remedies and Medicines for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 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, Easter...
The document titled Framework for Fair, Equitable and Timely Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccines in Africa (Highlights of Day 1) offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within C...
Universal health coverage, with full access to high-quality services for health promotion, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, palliation and financial risk protection, cannot be achieved without evidence from research. Research has the power to address a wide range of questions about how we can...
An Act to provide for compensation to workers for injuries suffered and scheduled diseases incurred in the course of their employment.
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how and why HIV should be considered in each of the PEAP pillars. It provides a set of core questions, which need to be considered in developing Sector PEAP Review Papers (SPRP) and the construction of each pillar as well as suggestions to help guide the...
Breastfeeding is an extension of maternal protection that transitions the young infant from the shelter of the in utero environment to life in the ex utero world with its variety of potentially harmful exposures. The promotion, protection, and support of breastfeeding is an exceptionally cost-effect...
The World health statistics 2020 report is the latest annual compilation of health statistics for 194 Member States.1 It summarizes trends in life expectancy and causes of death and reports on progress towards the health and healthrelated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets.T...
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...
WHO is disseminating this guide as a necessary tool for those working in tobacco control or in health promotion. These actors include governmental agencies, public health practitioners, lawyers, nongovernmental organizations and academia. It is hoped that the guide will add value to existing referen...
This is the seventh HRH audit report and is intended to provide the health sector with up-to-date information on the current staffing in the health sector. It includes detailed human resources for health (HRH) staffing data on all public and, for the first time, private-not-for-profit (PNFP) facilit...
