Systematic vaccine safety surveillance is indispensable in ensuring public trust of the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI) and quality of vaccines. The hospital-based sentinel surveillance system (HBSSS) was designed to detect safety signals of rare adverse events of special interest (AESl) or to evaluate safety signals arising from other sources, following vaccination with COVID-19 vaccines in Uganda. The evaluation aimed to assess the impact and feasibility of HBSSS as a vaccine safety surveillance model for low- and middle-income countries.
The HIV Recent Infection Surveillance – Public Health Response guide offers practical steps and procedures for conducting a PHR upon identifying hotspots for HIV acquisition. It clearly outlines the roles of both national and sub-national teams, ensuring a well-coordinated approach to implementation.
Big Catch-up vaccination refers to the action of vaccinating an individual who, for whatever reason, is missing or has not received doses of vaccines for which they are eligible, as per the national immunization schedule. This Big catch up was designed to reach children who have missed routine
vaccinations, often due to disruptions in healthcare services, geographic barriers, or other challenges including those were affected by the COVID Pandemic restrictions.
Ministry of Health (MoH) acknowledges the need to continuously adopt new approaches in response to the changing epidemic. This enables the country to appropriately focus the response to target priority areas and population groups; hence the need for periodic HTS policy reviews to incorporate new evidence-informed approaches. . This document provides guidance on how HIV Testing Services (HTS) should be planned, delivered/ implemented, monitored and evaluated. Therefore, the document serves as a useful resource for policy-makers and planners, AIDS Development Partners (ADPs), HTS implementers, academicians, researchers and service providers.
This is a chronological document about the history of the immunization program in Uganda from the preUganda National Expanded Program on Immunization era (1960s and 1970s) to 2024. This information was obtained from different sources including; peer-reviewed manuscripts, websites, UNEPI internal reports and key informant interviews. This is a reference document for all immunization related historical information in Uganda.
This post-campaign vaccination coverage survey was conducted following the second phase of PMVC that was conducted in six health regions in 53 districts of Uganda in April 2024. The overarching goal of the post-campaign survey was to evaluate program performance by coverage, the reach of the yellow fever vaccination campaign program, and ix assess the equity of the program to further inform the implementation of other vaccination campaigns and provide evidence in each of the 6 phase-II regions in Uganda about population vaccination against yellow fever for persons aged 1 to 60 years.
National HIV Testing Services Policy and Implementation Guidelines provide guidance on how HTS should be planned, delivered/ implemented, monitored and evaluated. Therefore, the document serves as a useful resource for policy-makers and planners, AIDS Development
Partners (ADPs), HTS implementers, academicians, researchers and service providers.
An Act to provide for compulsory Immunisation of children, women of reproductive age and other target groups against immunisable diseases, to establish the Immunisation Fund and to provide for other incidental matters.
The Ministry later reviewed the two initiatives; CDPs and FHDs and found that the two approaches had a common focus to a greater extent. The Ministry recommended harmonisation of the two initiatives, which was then renamed Integrated Child Health Days (ICHDs) to have a package of services from both initiatives . This guide has therefore been developed in order to harmonise the two initiatives to respond to the requirements of the Sustainable Development Goals focusing on maternal and child health.
A comprehensive National Immunization Programme Review (2015-2020 NIPR) was conducted in Uganda from 12th October to 06th November 2020. This NIPR integrated the EPI review with an operational research study to assess the barriers to utilization of EPI services, Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination post-validation assessment (MNTE-PVA) and assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on immunization services. Makerere University School of Public Health as an external team to the EPI programme constituted the lead team. The rest of the review team consisted of a national and international team, namely content experts from the WHO, Ministry of Health, UNICEF, PATH and CHAI.
The National Immunisation Strategy (NIS) replaces the comprehensive Multi-Year Plan (cMYP) as a country-specific guiding tool for the planning, coordination and implementation of immunisation activities. The strategy clearly defines what is to be achieved in the next five years, in terms of the anticipated results and impact in accordance with UNEPI’s vision, mission, goals and objectives. This strategy aims at ensuring that the national strategic priorities and activities improve and sustain immunisation coverage, disease surveillance and address outstanding recommendations from previous program reviews and assessments.
The EPI Data Quality Improvement Plan (DQIP) details the processes, tools, and techniques employed to ensure data is accurate, consistent, complete, and up-to-date. The purposes of a DQIP include serving as a roadmap to data quality improvement, promoting the importance of data quality and integrating a multi-stakeholder approach to maximizing data quality.
