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Journal Article

Mental health in South Sudan: a case for community-based support

Based on personal reflections of the authors who were engaged in mental health and psychosocial support programmes in South Sudan between 2013 and 2016, this article illustrates the constraints and challenges facing the sector at the time. The authors emphasise…

Central and East Africa Hub

2019

Journal Article

Measuring health system resilience in a highly fragile nation during protracted conflict: South Sudan 2011–15

Complementing real-time data with survey data collected in South Sudan at independence (2011) and following 2 years of protracted conflict (2015), this study constructed and then compared a resilience index and stress index. Overall maternal, neonatal and child health coverage…

Central and East Africa Hub

2020

Journal Article

Authority that is customary: Kitawala, customary chiefs, and the plurality of power in Congolese history

This paper uses the history of the religious/healing movement Kitawala in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a lens to explore the relationship between forms of state-sanctioned “customary” authority and alternative nodes of “authority that is customary.” Focusing on three…

Central and East Africa Hub

2020

Journal Article

Maternal Vaccination in Uganda: Exploring Pregnant Women, Community Leaders and Healthcare Workers’ Perceptions

This research used qualitative methods to explore pregnant women, community leaders, healthcare workers, and programme managers’ perceptions of maternal vaccination in Kampala, Uganda. The authors found that public health messaging should target all community members, including partners and parents of…

Central and East Africa Hub

MDPI

2021

Journal Article

Lives Interrupted: Navigating Hardship During COVID-19 Provides Lessons in Solidarity and Visibility for Mobile Young People in South Africa and Uganda

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended assumptions about livelihood security. The authors examine data from young women and men in South Africa and young female sex workers in Uganda to explore the inequalities and hardships experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and…

Central and East Africa Hub

SAGE Publications

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 Health Sector Integrated Refugee Response Plan 2019-2024

Written by the Ugandan Ministry of Health, the Health Sector Integrated Refugee Response Plan sets out policies for supplementing service delivery in refugee-hosting communities, to meet the needs of everyone in the targeted areas.

Central and East Africa Hub

2019

Briefings

Exploring community dynamics around the plague outbreak in Ituri province, DRC

In April 2021, the Social Sciences Analytics Cell (CASS), in collaboration with UNICEF and the Provincial Health Division (DPS) in Bunia conducted exploratory research applying the Integrated Outbreak Analytics (IOA) approach in three health zones affected by a suspected plague…

Central and East Africa Hub

2021

Case Studies

COVID-19 school closures in the DRC: impact on the health, protection and education of children and youth

This report presents an analysis of the impact of school closures as a COVID-19 response measure in the DRC, and is intended to inform evidence-based programming to mitigate the short- and long-term consequences to health, protection, and education of children…

Central and East Africa Hub

The Cellule d'Analyse en Sciences Sociales (CASS)

2021

Briefings

Cross-Border Dynamics and Healthcare in West Nile, Uganda

Key considerations concerning cross-border dynamics and health structures and behaviours in the West Nile sub-region of north-west Uganda.

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2019

Briefings

Cultural Practices on Burial and Care for the Sick in South Sudan

Literature on cultural practices for burial and care for the sick among individual ethnic groups in South Sudan was very limited. However, it clearly points to the importance of proper burials among all ethnic groups: these typically entail washing the…

Central and East Africa Hub

Institute of Development Studies

2018

Background Reports

Rift Valley Fever: A Survey of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice of Slaughterhouse Workers and Community Members in Kabale District, Uganda

Rift Valley Fever virus (RVF) is a zoonotic virus in the Phenuiviridae family. RVF outbreaks can cause significant morbidity and mortality in humans and animals. Following the diagnosis of two RVF cases in March 2016 in southern Kabale district, Uganda,…

Central and East Africa Hub

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

2017