The document titled Outbreak Brief 136: 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...
Malnutrition is the deficiency of protein,energy, as well as vitamins leading to loss of body fats and muscle tissues. It is a major public health concern in Uganda that affects both children and adults.
UNAIDS mission statement declares: ��As the main advocate for global action in HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing the transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and all...
The document titled Questions and answers on mask wearing 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 Africa, We...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 152: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic offers a comprehensive insight into Surveillance and Disease Intelligence, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Norther...
This is the fourth report of the WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance. The three previous reports were published in 1997, 2000 and 2004 and included data from 35, 58 and 77 countries, respectively. This report includes drug susceptibility test (DST) results fro...
Africa CDC is working with partners and Member States to: * Map the regional spread of the new variants in Africa through regional genomic surveillance; * Support laboratory centres of excellence to address the emerging SARS-CoV-2 sequencing needs of Member States and ensure availability of geograph...
This Nutrition Quarterly Bulletin focuses on the quarter (April to June 2020) of the fiscal year (FY) 2020/21. The rationale of preparing the Nutrition Quarterly Bulletin is to show performance on key nutrition indicators on the following aspects; reporting, Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and Moder...
The document titled Outbreak Brief 148: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic offers a comprehensive insight into Surveillance and Disease Intelligence, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Norther...
The document titled COVID-19 Tiered Public Health and Social Measure Framework for Africa 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, Nort...
Every year, an estimated 17 million people die of cardiovascular disease (CVD) (1). Three fourths of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. In addition, at least one third of the world population is currently at high risk of developing major cardiovascular events; an estimated 1.3 b...
The Interagency List of Essential Medicines for Reproductive Health is first presented in the format used in previous reproductive health lists - by clinical groups, with certain medicines repeated in different groups. Relevant standard treatment guidelines developed by the WHO Department of Reprodu...
The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (03 August 2022) 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...
Healthcare workforce development is critical to meeting Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3) and other health-related SDGs and to achieve universal healthcare coverage (UHC)2(p3) in Africa. The COVID-19 pandemic further compounds the already ill equipped, under-staffed strained, and over-stretched...
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...
The Govemment of Uganda continues to facilitate the attainment of a good standard of health for all the people in Uganda. The goal of the Health Sector is therefore to reduce morbidity and mortality as a contribution to poverty reduction as well as economic and social development of the people of Ug...
This weekly epidemiological bulletin serves to inform all stakehold-ers at district, national, and global levels on disease trends, public health surveillance and interventions undertaken in detecting, pre-venting and responding to public health events in the country on a weekly basis. In this issue...
This Annual Health Sector Performance Report for Financial Year 2022/23, is the third during the National Development Plan (NDP) III period and it mainly focuses on the progress in implementation of the health subprogram annual workplans FY 2022/23 based on the respective institutional 5 year Strate...
Uganda is currently using both a push (kit -based) and pull (order -based) system to supply essential medicines and health supplies (EMHS) to health facilities. Higher-level health facilities (Hospitals and Health Centres level (HCIV) utilize the pull system by requesting EMHS from the National Medi...
Investment in health systems so that they are able to extend coverage of health services to the world��s poor populations is increasingly recognized as an important contributor to saving lives, reducing poverty, spurring economic development and promoting global security (Commission on Macroeconomic...
