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Africa CDC Mastercard Foundation: Saving Lives and Livelihoods Newsletter, June 2022

COVID-19 in Africa: Where we are today Africa has registered more than 11.7 million COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic. Egypt, Libya, Morocco, South Africa, and Tunisia are among countries with the highest number of cases on the continent. Meanwhile, only about 18% percent of the contine...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 142 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Management of MDR-TB : A field guide

Management of MDR-TB: a fi eld guide was created to help health workers carry out these tasks. It is a job aid that medical offi cers and TB nurses are meant use frequently during the day for quick reference. This module is closely related to other clinical guideline modules in the Integrated Manage...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Communicable Diseases
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 162 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Preparation for the third High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases, to be held in 2018

This report is submitted in response to Health Assembly resolution WHA69.6 (2016) and provides an update on the preparation for the third High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases, to be held in 2018, including the responses to specific ass...

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Theme: Global Health Security Capacities
Sub Theme: Non-communicable diseases and risk factors
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 153 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Human Resources For Health Strategic Plan 2020 - 2030

The purpose of this HRH Strategic plan is therefore to provide a framework for planning, developing and managing a well-performing health workforce in Uganda. It relates the health workforce with the current and future health needs, with emphasis on improved effectiveness and efficiency in the use o...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 171 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 37: COVID-19 Pandemic 29 September 2020

As of 9 am East African Time (EAT) 29 September 2020, a total of 1,465,023 COVID-19 cases and 35,750 deaths (CFR: 2.4%) have been reported in 55 African Union Member State Countries. This is 4% of all cases reported globally. Since the last brief, 52,713 new COVID-19 cases have been reported, which...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 151 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Analysis of the Nutrition Situation in Uganda May 2010

Adequate nutrition is an essential prerequisite for maintaining health status. The critical role nutrition plays in health and development warrants greater commitment to and investment in nutrition in Uganda. Moreover, such an investment is a necessary prerequisite for further progress on the Millen...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 144 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Strengthening and Establishing National Public Health Institutes as Part of a Network of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

The document titled Strengthening and Establishing National Public Health Institutes as Part of a Network of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention offers a comprehensive insight into Administration, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health ch...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 162 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Service Availability and Readiness Assessment & Data Quality Review (SARA & DQR 2018) For Uganda

The SARA/DQR serves as a monitoring and evaluation tool of the national health strategy and provides key information on progress of health system strengthening over time. It facilitates identification of gaps and weaknesses responsible for suboptimal service provision and intervention coverage that...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Integrated Management of Malaria Training Health Worker's Manual

There has been great progress made in the control of malaria in Uganda with the incidence rate reducing from 272 cases per 1000 population in 2016/17 to 191 cases per 1000 population in 2017/18. The Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Health National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) and other...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 228 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

East Africa Public Health Laboratory Networking Project news letter, January, 2017

The Project Developmental Objective of EAPHLNP is to establish a network of efficient, high quality and accessible public health laboratories for diagnosis and surveillance of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases in the East African region.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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Uganda National Drug policy 2002

The publication of this first comprehensive and detailed Uganda National Drug Policy marks a significant step forward in the overall development of national health services in general and national pharmaceutical services in particular. Now for the first time we have available a vital reference point...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 157 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National HIV Prevention Strategy

The Government of Uganda has identified HIV prevention as a priority in the National Development Plan (2010-15) and set a 40 percent target to reduce new HIV infections by 2015. Although HIV prevalence during the past decade has been stable around 6-7 percent among adults, the number of new HIV infe...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 8 hours ago 194 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Malaria Report - Week 36

For week 36, we have seen a one percentage point reduction in the test positivity rate (from 58% to 57% this week) and the number of districts in upsurge has reduced from 50 to 44 this week. Despite this decline, we saw an increase across all other indicators: confirmed cases, deaths, and the percen...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 162 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Facility Assessment For Reproductive Health Commodities and Services Uganda, Survey Report 2014

In 2009, Uganda received support from the Global Program for Reproductive Health Commodity Security (GPRHCS) to assist the�Ministry of Health in developing a national strategy. The strategy focused on logistics management to improve the functionality of the national and district Reproductive Health...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 164 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Malaria Quarterly Bulletin Jan-March 2020

This issue focuses on the third quarter of 2019/2020 financial year. The aim of this bulletin is to inform district, national, and global stake-holders on progress achieved and challenges encountered in malaria control and reduction in Uganda. Most importantly, it is to encourage use of this informa...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 hour ago 189 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Health Sector Strategic Plan II 2005/06 - 2009/2010

Uganda has been consistent in its pursuit of poverty eradication as the overriding priority for national socioeconomic development. The overall goal of the government is to reduce absolute poverty to less than 10% of the population by 2017. The country has experienced strong economic growth averagin...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 163 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Review of Implementation of the Ministry of Health Work Plan for 3rd and 4th Quarters 2019/20 FY (Jan to June 2020)

The workshop to review the implementation of the Ministry of Health (MoH) work plan for the third and fourth quarters for 2019/20 financial year (FY) will take place between October 6-8, 2020 in Kampala. The main objective of the workshop is to review implementation of the MoH work plan for Departme...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 207 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (7 June 2021)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (7 June 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, Northe...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 151 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Newsletter December 2019

The document titled Africa CDC Newsletter – December 2019 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 valuab...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 129 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Supervision, Performance Assessment and Recognition Strategy (SPARS) Implementation Guidelines

In 2011, SPARS was adopted by the Ministry of Health (MoH) as a national strategy to build district level capacity in supply chainmanagement of medicines and health supplies. Medicines and health supplies are the second biggest expenditure in the health sector after human resources and therefore the...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
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