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The Adolescent Girls Vulnerability Index Guiding Strategic Investment in Uganda

The Adolescent Girls Multilevel Vulnerability Index (AGI) was developed based on a growing recognition of the need to channel resources to vital��yet highly vulnerable and vastly underserved��populations of adolescent girls in Uganda specifically, and the East and Southern Africa region in general....

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20Adolescent%20girls%20vulnerability%2...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Adolescent Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 189 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (06 October 2020)

A. Executive summary • Two preprint studies demonstrated that SARS-CoV2 D614G substitution enhances infectivity, replication fitness, and early transmission in hamsters. Findings indicate the D614G variant exhibited significantly faster droplet transmission between hamsters and clinical evidence tha...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-06-october-2020/?...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 142 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Occupational Safety and Health Act 2006

An Act to consolidate, harmonize and update the law relating to occupational safety and health; to repeal the Factories Act, Cap 220 and to provide for connected matters.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/occupational-safety-and-health-act-2006.pd...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 19 hours ago 245 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Legal Status of Traditional Medicine and Complementary/Alternative Medicine

In this document, medical providers and practices are generally described as traditional, complementary/alternative, or allopathic. ��Provider�� and ��practitioner�� are used interchangeably. In a few cases, particularly in the European section, the cumbersome term ��non-allopathic physician�� is us...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 208 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 13: COVID-19 Pandemic 14 April 2020

The document titled Outbreak Brief 13: COVID-19 Pandemic – 14 April 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, Northern Africa, Sout...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-number-13-covid-19-pandemic-14-april-2020/?ind=1586954...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 124 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Integrating mental health into primary care: A global perspective

As these and other stories in the report poignantly illustrate, primary care starts with people.And, integrating mental health services into primary care is the most viable way of ensuring that people have access to the mental health care they need. People can access mental healthservices closer to...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Integrating%20mental%20Health%20into%20Pri...
Theme: Emergency Preparedness
Sub Theme: Primary Health Care
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 148 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Atlas of Common Clinical Presentations of Pediatric HIV Infections

Over 2 million children worldwide are living with HIV infection and 95% reside in sub-Saharan Africa with the majority infected through mother-to-child transmission. Infected children have a high mortality with 50% dying by 2 years of age. Their clinical presentation includes common childhood infect...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Atlas%20of%20Common%20Clinical%20Presentat...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 Minute ago 166 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 37, 9th - 15th September, 2019

We are pleased to share with you our 37th weekly epidemiological bulletin. This weekly 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 respondin...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 20 hours ago 157 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment Uganda, 2023

The Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) is the World Health Organisation's (WHO��s) standardized qualitative assessment of a country��s Health Financing system. The assessment builds on an extensive body of conceptual and empirical work and summarizes ��what matters in Health Financing for Unive...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/WHO%20HFPM%20Uganda%20FINAL.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 185 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Access Strategy

The document titled COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Access Strategy 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...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-vaccine-development-and-access-strategy/?ind=1603461758793&f...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Third National Development Plan (NDPIII) 2020/21 - 2024/25

This National Development Plan (NDP) is the third in a series of six NDPs that will guide the nation in delivering the aspirations articulated in Uganda Vision 2040. The NDPIII (2020/21 - 2024/25) is anchored on the progress made, challenges encountered and lessons learnt from previous planning and...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 232 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Harmonised Policy on Facilitating Government Officials and Members of Non-Governmental Entities participating in activities funded by Development Partners

Harmonisation of Development Partner practices on the provision of allowances is critical for the effective delivery of off-budget interventions and avoiding contradictions in how�implementing agencies facilitate public officials to do their work in service of the people of�Uganda.�This revised poli...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Revised%20LDPG%20Facilitation%20Policy_Fin...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 200 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Revealing the toll of COVID-19: A technical package for Member States

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...

https://africacdc.org/download/revealing-the-toll-of-covid-19-a-technical-package-for-rapid-mortalit...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 147 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Effective Media Communication during Public Health Emergencies A WHO Handbook

Until the outbreak of an exotic communicable disease or other dramatic event, the elaborate infrastructures and mechanisms that protect public health on a daily basis often go unnoticed and attract little media1 interest. In the midst of a public health emergency2 the situation becomes very differen...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 176 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Caring for Newborns and Children in the Community

It explains about what will take place during the entire training. It indicates which activities are to be done, who to do them, and when to be done

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/ICCM%20facilitator%27s%20Guide.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 170 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Policy and strategy for insectcide treated nets.

Based on this epidemiology malaria significantly contributes to the burden of disease as well as economic losses. According to the 2001 ��Roll Back Malaria�� (RBM) base line assessment in four districts between 39% and 44% of recorded outpatient visits were due to malaria. It is estimated that betwe...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Policy%20and%20Strategy%20for%20Insecticid...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 184 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Systems Thinking for Health Systems Strengthening

Despite strong global consensus on the need to strengthen health systems, there is no established framework for doing so in developing countries, and no formula to apply or package of interventions to implement. Many health systems simply lack the capacity to measure or understand their own weakness...

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Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 145 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Impacts of Decentralization on Health Behaviors in Uganda

This paper examines the impacts of a public sector decentralization program on the demand for health care in Uganda in the 1990s. This work is an extension of a previous paper, which provided evidence of a shifting of priorities by local governments in Uganda��s decentralized health system away from...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20Impacts%20of%20Decentralization%20on...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 131 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Nigeria Multi Harzard Risk Communication

This ducument details the step wise approach to be taken to deliver a comprehensive risk communication

https://ncdc.gov.ng/themes/common/docs/protocols/326_1702538423.pdf
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Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 19 hours ago 184 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 36, 2nd - 8th September, 2019

This weekly epidemiological bulletin serves to inform all stakeholders at district, national, and global level 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.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Weekly%20Epidemiologicl%20Bulletin%20week%...
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Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 149 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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