Epidemic preparedness and response

The social and political dimensions of disease epidemics, preparedness and response.

Research paper

Pandemics and soft power: HIV/AIDS and Uganda on the global stage

The COVID-19 outbreak of 2020 threatened years of effort by the Chinese authorities to extend its influence around the world. As with COVID-19, HIV/AIDS presented a fundamental threat not only to countries’ internal social stability and population health, but also…
Central and East Africa Hub
Cambridge University Press
2020
Research paper

COVID-19, Public Authority and Enforcement

The securitization of health is not a new phenomenon. However, global responses to the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa reveal the extent to which epidemic preparedness and response is now shaped by geopolitical concerns. This commentary describes how enforcement…
Central and East Africa Hub
Routledge
2020
Research paper

Experiences of the one-health approach by the Uganda Trypanosomiasis Control Council and its secretariat in the control of zoonotic sleeping sickness in Uganda

Elimination of sleeping sickness from endemic countries like Uganda is key if the affected communities are to exploit the potential of the available human and livestock resources (production and productivity). Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, the parasite that causes acute sleeping sickness…
Central and East Africa Hub
Elsevier
2020
Research paper

COVID-19 and Its Related Stigma A Qualitative Study Among Survivors in Kampala, Uganda

COVID-19-related stigma is gradually becoming a global problem among COVID-19 survivors with deleterious effects on quality of life. However, this social problem has received little attention in research and policy. This study aimed at exploring the COVID-19-related stigma among survivors…
Central and East Africa Hub
American Psychological Association
2021
Research paper

Institutional vulnerabilities, COVID-19, resilience mechanisms and societal relationships in developing countries

COVID-19 pandemic challenges could be utilised as an opportunity to reform government institutions to develop resilience measures that would potentially meet contemporary and future challenges. This article highlights that the current approach of institutions has failed to meet societal need.…
Central and East Africa Hub
International Journal of Discrimination and the Law
2021
Research paper

Fieldwork through the Zoomiverse: Sensing Uganda in a Time of Immobility

With the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, research collaborations that involved multiple sites or institutions were challenged by travel restrictions and the switch to online communication. This article is a reflection by two longtime collaborators, Richard Vokes and Gertrude Atukunda.…
Central and East Africa Hub
Anthropology in Action
2021
Research paper

Hidden Tales of Ebola: Airing the Forgotten Voices of Ugandan “Ebola Nurses”

Uganda experienced three Ebola outbreaks between 2000 and 2012, the largest and most destructive occurred in the Gulu region in 2000. This outbreak occurred during the rainy season when malaria rates were highest, thus complicating the diagnosis. As the outbreak…
Central and East Africa Hub
Journal of Transcultural Nursing
2021
Policy document

Uganda National Technical Guidelines for IDSR, Third Edition

Uganda Ministry of Health National Technical Guidelines for Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response, Third Edition (September 2021). These official guidelines set out the Government of Uganda’s policies and strategy concerning public health surveillance, early warning and response.
Central and East Africa Hub
2021
Policy document

The Public Health Act, Uganda

The legal basis for public health state action, originally passed in 1935.
Central and East Africa Hub
Policy document

Uganda Covid-19 Preparedness and Response Plan, March 2020

This sets out the Government of Uganda’s overarching strategy and early response to the Covid-19 pandemic, including stengthening leadership and coordination, strengthening diagnostic capacity, raising public awareness, developing capacity for case management and psychosocial support, and strengthening social protection mechanisms.
Central and East Africa Hub
2020
Research paper

Going viral – capacity strengthening in the context of pandemic(s)

The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed focus on the importance of increasing momentum in addressing global health challenges, including the unacceptable burden of avoidable foetal and newborn mortality and morbidity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The National Institute for Health…
Central and East Africa Hub
2022
Research paper

COVID-19 pandemic, Uganda’s story

Uganda adopted its own model taking into consideration its culture, values, environment, socio-economic activities, beliefs, previous successful epidemic experience, and appears a hybrid policy to the Norwegian model. This model of response is perhaps based on Uganda’s long experience in…
Central and East Africa Hub
2020
Ebola public health information posters in Uganda
Briefing

RCCE in the 2022 Ebola Outbreak Response in Greater Kampala, Uganda

This brief details how Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) activities and approaches can be adapted to reach people living in Greater Kampala to increase adoption of preventive behaviours and practices, early recognition of symptoms, care seeking and case reporting.
Central and East Africa Hub
SSHAP
2022
Infographic

Covid-19 vaccination: improving uptake for women in South Sudan

This infographic summarises the key considerations of a recent briefing on improving COVID-19 vaccine uptake amongst women in South Sudan. To expand, open in the image in a new tab, or download the PDF in full using the button on…
Central and East Africa Hub
SSHAP
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