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Volume 1
A Rapid Health Assessment of Refugees in Adjumani district, August 2016
Fresh political clashes in South Sudan in June 2016 led to a large influx of refugees to Uganda through the Elegu border post in Adjumani district. 41,154 refugees entered Uganda in July 2016, leading to an overstretch on supplies like…
UNIPH Bulletin_Volume 1 Issue 4
July – September 2016
Uganda Declares End of Yellow Fever Outbreak
On 6th September, 2016 the Ag. Director General Health Services Prof. Anthony K. Mbonye, released a press statement declaring the end of the yellow fever…
Risk factors associated with typhoid intestinal perforations during a large outbreak of typhoid,…
Affiliations: 1Public Health Fellowship Program, Kampala, Uganda, 2African Field Epidemiology Network, Kampala, Uganda, 3Makerere University
School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda
Uganda Excels at the 2016 AFENET Conference
Every two years, Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programs (FELTPs) are presented with a strategic platform to show-case their contribution to the public health community via the AFENET scientific conference.
The conference…
Uganda Declares End of Yellow Fever Outbreak
On 6th September, 2016 the Ag. Director General Health Services Prof. Anthony K. Mbonye, released a press statement declaring the end of the yellow fever outbreak which had begun in March 2016. On 24th March 2016, an alert of a suspected…
Trends in Weekly Surveillance Data of Priority Diseases/Events for the Quarter of April-June 2016
Analysis of the MoH Weekly Epidemiological Surveillance April to June 2016 data revealed; that weekly surveillance reporting rates increased slightly over the quarter and the Central Region is still pulling the national average below the…
Food poisoning and death after eating chapatti made of wheat flour contaminated with organophosphate…
On 30 October 2015, three students in Mukuju Primary Teacher’s College, Tororo district, died of suspected food poisoning after eating chapattis (locally made flat bread). We investigated this cluster of illness to identify the cause and…
Long term trends and geographical distribution of animal bite injuries and deaths due to human…
Summary: In absence of accurate data on trends and burden of human rabies infection in developing countries, animal bite injuries provide useful information to bridge that gap. Rabies is one of the most deadly infectious diseases, with a…
Rift Valley Fever outbreak in Kabale district, March-April 2016: The first reported human outbreak…
In what appears to be a new emerging viral infection in Uganda, two non-fatal human confirmed Rift Valley Fever Virus (RVFV) infections were reported in Kabale district, Southwestern Ugandan in March-April 2016. These are the first reported…
A cholera outbreak caused by drinking contaminated river water, Bulambuli District–Eastern Uganda,…
On 25th March 2016, Bulambuli district reported a sharp increase cholera cases. We conducted an investigation to determine the scope of the outbreak, mode of transmission, and to inform control measures. Cases were identified using standard…