June 2024

Summary Background: Rift Valley Fever (RVF) is a mosquito-borne viral zoonosis of public health concern. Several sporadic RVF outbreaks have been reported in Uganda. We described the trends and spatial distribution of RVF outbreaks in…

Summary Introduction: The labour export business in Uganda has grown over several years with increasing numbers of women being exported to the Middle-East for domestic work. In 2023, there was an alert raised about increasing numbers of…

Summary Background: Cholera remains a major public health threat in Uganda, particularly in border districts that face recurrent outbreaks due to cross-border population movement. A 7-1-7 is a timeliness metric for outbreak detection,…

Summary Background: Road traffic injuries (RTIs) rank sixth among causes of death and fourth for disability in Uganda. In 2019, Uganda's RTI mortality was 29 per 100,000, higher than the global average of 18 per 100,000. Although the…

Summary Background: Uganda is one of the Sub-Saharan countries with a high maternal mortality ratio estimated at 336 deaths per 100,000 live births. Birth preparedness and Complication readiness (BPCR) is an effective strategy for…

Summary Background: On February 25, 2024, an inmate with suspected Acute Haemorrhagic Conjunctivitis (AHC) was remanded at Kampala Remand Prison (KRP) from Kansanga Police Post. A notification was subsequently sent to the Ministry of…

Summary  Background: On March 11, 2024, Kampala Capital City Authority received an alert of increase in the number acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) cases at an infant School X in Kampala City. We investigated the outbreak to…

The Public Health Fellowship Program has responded to several outbreaks as part of the rapid response team and suggested recommendations per outbreak investigation as follows.

Ministry of Health confirmed a Polio outbreak in Mbale city on May 31,2024. This outbreak is caused by a vaccine-derived polio virus type 2(VDPV2) that was isolated from a sewage plant during the routine sentinel environmental…

MoH outbreak notification was on the 25th March 2024. Investigations commenced on 11th June 2024 and active case finding was on-going as of 12th June 2024.