The purpose of this basic level training resource is to assist with the training of primary ear and hearing workers in developing countries, especially focused on Village Health Care Workers. The role of the village health care worker is vitally important for the prevention of ear and hearing disorders. An important role for the trained village health care worker is to help the patient, family and community to understand common ear diseases and hearing loss.Through this training resource, the village health care worker will be taught when to refer the patient for treatment and support. This resource covers basic methods for prevention and recognition of common ear disease and hearing loss. It also shows that, with understanding and the necessary support, people with hearing loss can play productive roles in the household, school or in the work place.
The National Healthcare Waste Management Plan identifies several opportunities and activities to advance HCWM in Uganda.
Undernutrition increases the risk of tuberculosis (TB) and in turn TB can lead to malnutrition. Undernutrition is therefore highly prevalent among people with TB. It has been demonstrated that undernutrition is a risk factor for progression from TB infection to active TB disease and that undernutrition at the time of diagnosis of active TB is a predictor of increased risk of death and TB relapse.
This Nutrition Country Profile of the Republic of Uganda was prepared by Dr. Joyce Kakuramatsi Kikafunda, Associate Professor of Food and Nutritional Sciences at the Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, in collaboration with Estelle Bader, Giulia Palma and Maylis Razès, Consultants, and Marie Claude Dop, Nutrition Officer, Nutrient requirements and assessment group, Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Surgical Care at the District Hospital provides a comprehensive guide to surgical procedures that are commonly performed at the district hospital. It is intentionally limited to emergency and very common problems and is not designed as a major textbook of surgery. The manual is presented in seven parts with an initial section on organizing the district surgical service followed by clinical sections which include basic surgical procedures, the abdomen, emergency obstetrics, resuscitation and anaesthesia, acute trauma management, and orthopedics. It concludes with a course manual for teaching primary trauma care
Globally, 360 million people (about 5% of the world’s population) live with disabling hearing loss, of whom 32 million are children. The prevalence of hearing loss increases from 1.7% among children to 7% in adults (including 183 million males and 145 million females).1 Nearly 180 million people aged 65 years or older (that is, more than 30% of the population in this age group) have hearing loss that interferes with understanding normal conversational speech.2 High-quality, national and local epidemiological data on hearing loss, however, are generally lacking and this scarcity contributes to low awareness of the problem.3
Service Availability Mapping (SAM) in Uganda was conducted by Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MoH) resource centre and the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2004. The goal was to collect information on the availability and distribution of key health services by interviewing the district director of health services and his/her team in all 56 districts. SAM provided baseline monitoring information for the scale-up of key HIV/AIDS-related services such as antiretroviral therapy (ART), prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, and counseling and HIV testing.
The coexistence of high rates of malnutrition and HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa creates an additional challenge for nutritionists. Providing adequate nutrition at community and individual levels, even in the absence of HIV/AIDS, remains a problem.
The new challenge calls for the acceleration of both short-term and longterm efforts to combat malnutrition and its effect on morbidity and mortality associated with HIV/AIDS. New capacities have to be developed and new resources sought. The Greater Horn of Africa Capacity Development Initiative in Nutrition (GHA-CDIN) has identified nutrition in the context of HIV/AIDS as an area of capacity development that urgently needs attention.
This assessment was conducted to assess the health and nutrition status in all the 53 IDP camps in former Gulu District. It covered all the 5 counties of former Gulu district which include; Omoro, Kilak, Nwoya, Aswa and Gulu Municipality.
Although General Hospitals, Regional and National Referral Hospitals have continued to make major contributions to essential clinical care in Uganda, numerous reports (including those of the MoH) are awash with the stark reality of lack of drugs, absence of the often inadequate health workers, delays in accessing health care services even at referral hospitals, and neglect of patients who manage to access the health care facilities, resulting into avoidable deaths among other problems.
This guide provides practical steps to reduce drowning – one of the world’s most preventable, neglected and pressing public health issues. Through 10 evidence-based interventions and strategies it is designed to help drowning-prevention practitioners – from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and researchers to government officials and policy-makers – approach drowning prevention in a strategic, evidence based and multi-sectoral way. It also highlights ways to harness public awareness and engagement to strengthen drowning prevention interventions.
