This document is a statistical report highlighting the performance of key nutrition program indicators for the month of March 2023.
The Total Market Approach 2020/21-2025/26 strategy elaborates how the multi-sectoral approach, especially with increased involvement from the private sector, will play a role in not only addressing fertility concerns but also increasing access to quality comprehensive family planning services and information by women and men in reproductive age, thereby increasing the country’s socio-economic development and attaining the country’s vision 2040. This strategy reconfirms Uganda’s commitment to an equitable and comprehensive Family Planning and Reproductive Healthcare service delivery.
This document is to provide guidance to Local Governments (LGs) for budgeting and implementation of Health Service Delivery activities, utilizing the Primary Health Care (PHC) grants and other Decentralized Health Grants in Financial Year (FY) 2023/24. These guidelines should also be used to prepare and implement Annual Work Plans for both Public and Private Not-For-Profit (PNFP) facilities. The guidelines inform also LGs of the factors that will determine future allocations under the results-based sub-grant on the non-wage recurrent.
Key highlights on the malaria statistics from across the country for the week of 5th to 11th June 2023.
Uganda’s total fertility, maternal mortality, and teenage pregnancy rates remain among the highest globally. To counter this and other preventable maternal health-related challenges, the Ministry of Health developed the Family Planning Advocacy Strategy focusing on 14 advocacy Issues identified through multi-sectoral consultations and stakeholder engagements. The Ministry of Health is committed to scaling up the use of family planning to ensure that every Ugandan of reproductive age can choose when and how many children to have.
This bulletin serves to inform all stakeholders at community, district and national levels on suspected disease trends, public health surveillance and interventions undertaken in detecting, preventing and responding to public health events in Uganda on a weekly basis.
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 policy builds on the lessons of the previous one which provided for exceptions that were not clearly defined resulting in a situation where the exception became the rule. The policy is dynamic in nature and based on the current context of Uganda.
Despite recurrent outbreaks of the Sudan Ebola virus (SUDV), the disease remains neglected with limited investment in research and development of medical countermeasures and other innovations for its rapid containment. This research article discusses the lessons learnt and future priorities for sub-Saharan Africa concerning the SUDV outbreak in Uganda, 2022.
The Health Information and Digital Health (HIDH) Strategic Plan 2020/21 – 2024/25 provides the strategic direction and priority interventions for health information management and digitization of the Health Information System (HIS) in the 5 years 2020/21 to 2024/25. It is fully aligned with the Ministry of Health (MoH) Strategic Plan 2020/21 - 2024/25 and the National Development Plan 2020/21 – 2024/25 (NDP III) and the country’s aspirations expressed in the Uganda National Vision 2040. The strategies herein adhere to the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) principles towards the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 and other global and regional health commitments.
This bulletin serves to inform all stakeholders at community district, and national levels on suspected disease trends, public health surveillance and interventions undertaken in detecting, preventing and responding to public health events in Uganda on a weekly basis.
An Act to protect the privacy of the individual and personal data by regulating the collection and processing of personal information; to provide for the rights of the persons whose data is collected and the obligations of data collectors, data processors and data controllers; to regulate the use or disclosure of personal information; and for related matters.
The MoH is implementing the Mass Action Against Malaria (MAAM) operational guidelines through a multi-sectoral approach involving all relevant actors. The Multi-sectoral approach includes; MDAs, LGs, Development Cooperation Agencies, NGOs, CSOs, and the private sector.
