Action for Reproductive Health

20/10/2026

03/06/2026

OVERVIEW OF EBOLA HEMORRAGHIC FEVER.
❖ It is a viral disease of human and other primates caused by Ebola viruses.
❖ It is a severe zoonotic multisystem febrile disease caused by RNA viruses and is a notifiable disease.
❖ The disease was first identified in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks on in Nzara and the other in yambuku a village near the Ebola River from which the disease takes its name.
❖ Ebola viral disease outbreaks occur intermittently in tropical regions of sub-Saharan Africa.
❖ Between 1976 and 2013, the WHO reports about a total of 24 outbreaks involving 1716 cases.
❖ As of 11th august 2015, this outbreak has 2784 reported cases resulting in 11298 deaths.
ETIOLOGY.

RISK FACTORS:

MODE OF TRANSMISSION
SIGNS &SYMPTOMS
DIAGNOSIS:

PREVENTION:



➢ bundibugyo virus(BDBV)
➢ Sudan virus(SUDV)
➢ tai forest virus(TFV)
➢ Zaire Ebola virus (most deadly)
➢ Communities around game parks.
➢ Communities in endemic areas.
➢ Burial rituals.
➢ Poor infection control policies.
➢ Health workers treating infected people

➢ Contact with blood or body fluids of an infected animal commonly monkeys and fruit bats.
➢ Through sexual in*******se,
➢ Physical contact with the infected dead bodies.

➢ Sudden fever.
➢ Weakness.
➢ Headache.
➢ Muscle
➢ Pains.
➢ Loss of appetite.
➢ Conjunctivitis’
➢ Diarrhea(watery or bloody)
➢ Vomiting
➢ Mucosal and gastrointestinal bleeding
➢ Chest pains
➢ Respiratory distress.
➢ Circulatory shock.
➢ CNS dysfunction including and seizures.
➢ Patient history, especially travel
➢ isolating the virus by detecting its RNA or antibodies in person’s blood

Action for Reproductive Health, or ARH, is a Kampala-based non-profit that aims to improve reproductive and maternal health in Uganda by actively involving men in addressing this issue.

21/05/2026

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ARH street fair show case.

12/05/2026

Happy International Nurses Day.
WHAT BEING A NURSE MEANT TO ME.

I’m thankful to God that I got to serve God in this capacity.
Yes this retired Nurse is thankful to God.

She didn’t just give medications. She did more.
1. Spent sleepless nights taking care of very sick pple when their relatives enjoyed their bed
2. She spoke and comforted people who had no one on there side.
3. She cried with those who lost loved one
4. She prayed for the sick
5. Brought food to those who did have
6. She stood with Doctors and reminded them of the crucial stuff they were forgetting in intervention
7. She taught about health to many different pple especially empowering the youth and pregnant women to live healthy.
8. She checked on sick friends and relatives.
8. She served as a counselor
9 She gave so much love to her patients
10. She laughed and cheered her patients even when she herself was at her lowest. She literally spoke life into almost dead souls.
11. She went to work in rain even when no one held an umbrella for
her.
12: She was scolded for not being perfect when she came in sick; still she did her job best way she could.

God used her in very many special ways.

THIS NURSE IS EVERY NURSE.

Being a nurse isn’t just a job. It is a life style.
The most hurtful thing is that no one remembers them when they leave.
Happy Nurses Day.

05/05/2026

Happy International day for midwives to tou all wonderful Midwives.