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The webpage presents a guidance document developed by Uganda’s Ministry of Health for the assessment and management of healthcare workers who may have been exposed to Sudan Ebola Virus Disease (SVD) in the workplace. The document provides protocols for identifying and evaluating occupational expos
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The webpage “Decontamination of Ambulances for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)” provides guidance on how to safely clean and disinfect ambulances that have been used to transport suspected or confirmed Ebola patients. It outlines the procedures for decontaminating vehicle surfaces, medical equipment,
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The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Primary Screening Tool is a job aid developed to help healthcare workers identify individuals who may have symptoms or risk factors associated with Ebola before they enter a health facility. The tool supports the early detection of suspected Ebola cases through an initi
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The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Secondary and Tertiary Screening Tool provides guidance for healthcare workers on conducting more detailed assessments of individuals who have already been identified as potential Ebola suspects during primary screening. The tool outlines procedures for evaluating sympt
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The African region reports the highest number of health emergencies of all the WHO regions every year: an average of
2-3 new events every week
Accessed June 2025. This document outlines the Ministry of Health's management guidelines for malaria in pregnancy in Uganda. Pregnant women without malaria symptoms receive intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) as directly observed therapy (DOT),
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Target Malaria is an innovative project that aims to reduce the population of mosquitoes that transmit malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, thereby decreasing disease transmission. As part of its work to combat malaria, Target Malaria has started contained studies at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (U
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A toolkit for health facilities. This toolkit highlights successful differentiated-care approaches implemented in a number of settings and countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The toolkit will be further updated as more experience is gained with these and similar
approaches
Nature Sci Rep 15, 35329 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-19261-7
PLoS One 20(6): e0324338.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324338
AIDS Research and Therapy, vol.22 (2025) article no. 48. A 2025 research article reports on task shifting HIV disclosure support from clinical staff to caregiver peer supporters — indicating a scalable model for community worker involvement in disclosure counseling, which is key for adherence and
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Objective To assess the effectiveness of a community-based tuberculosis and leprosy intervention in which village health teams and health workers conduct door-to-door tuberculosis screening, targeted screenings and contact tracing.
Cervical cancer is a disease of the female reproductive tract caused primarily by oncogenic types of human papillomavirus
(HPV). In 2020, it was the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, with an estimated 604 000 new cases and 342 000 deaths
Uganda is Africa's largest refugee-hosting country and ranks fifth globally. Over the decades, Uganda has hosted refugees from nations including South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, Burundi, and Rwanda. As of early 2024, it hosts 1 600 000 refugees, primarily in re
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Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block patients from getting care, or bankrupt them, with some even imprisoning patients who cannot afford th
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The Mapping Antimicrobial Resistance and Antimicrobial Use Partnership (MAAP) project has conducted a multi-year, multi-country study that provides stark insights on the under-reported depth of the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis across Africa and lays out urgent policy recommendations to addr
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Overview and Practical Experiences from Ethiopia and Uganda. Slide set.
This webinar provides an overview of the new IEC & Social Mobilization NTD Tool Kit, which leads users through a step-by-step process to systematically review, revise, develop and adapt current IEC materials and social mobiliza
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PLOS Glob Public Health 3(7): e0001132. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.
pgph.0001132
This paper proposes a framework for strategic communications for malaria governance that involves five key elements: knowing the audience, defining the message, designing a medium, identifying a messenger, and
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J Int AIDS Soc., 26: e26121. https://doi.org/10.1002/jia2.26121. A person-centred model incorporating structured choice in biomedical prevention and care delivery options in settings with demographically diverse groups, in rural Kenya and Uganda, was responsive to varying personal preferences over t
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