This is the second Blood Bank Service Transformation Plan covering the period between 2013-2017 Ethiopian fiscal years (July 2020 – June 2025). This second transformation plan is developed as the first part of a ten-year ...
Health and social welfare are the fundamental issue for the elderly to live while continuing to participate in the family and community affairs. Population around the world is rapidly ageing, with some of the fastest change ...
Ethiopia still faces a high burden of malnutrition due to environmental,
social, political, economic, and cultural factors. Inadequate agricultural
productivity, post-harvest losses, poor food safety and quality, ...
The national Food and Nutrition Policy (FNP), endorsed in November 2018, has comprehensively
addressed food security, food safety, food quality and post-harvest management, as well as other
systemic issues, including ...
This summary booklet is illustrating the core concept of the Food
and Nutrition Strategy Document to serve as a quick reference. The
main Strategy document has 245 pages with detail action points
and budget. This summary ...
Adverse Events Following Immunizations (AEFIs) are reported to Ethiopian Food and Drug
Authority (EFDA) by health care providers and vaccine recipients. EFDA investigates and
assesses all AEFI reports and conducts causality ...
From the past and current experiences, emergency public health threats including coronavirus
(COVID-19) are spreading with alarming rate which affects the stability of the global medical
products supply chains. For the ...
Over the last decade or so, Ethiopia has made unparalleled expansion of tertiary education facilities.
The health sector, in close collaboration with the education sector, has implemented a step-wise
expansion in ...
Health is regarded by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a fundamental human right,
and health promotion is defined as “the process of enabling people to increase control over
their health and its determinants, and ...
Tobacco use is the largest single preventable cause of death, disease and devastating social, economic and
environmental effect in the world. Tobacco contains about 50 to 250 harmful constituents which are
addictive, ...
dolescents and youth comprise 33% of Ethiopia’s population which has a great implication on the social,
economic, and political agenda of the country and positively contribute to the country’s development if
investments ...
The Government of Ethiopia has made remarkable progress over the past two decades in making family
planning services available and increasing contraceptive coverage in the country. From 2000 to 2019, the
contraceptive ...
Ministry of Health(Ministry of health - Ethiopia, 2022-10)
Ethiopia is the second most populous country of Africa with a
population of 102,850,793 million having growth rate of 2.6%
in 2020 and ranks 12th in the world. The country is home
to various ethnicities, with more than ...
Ministry of Health(Ministry of Health - Ethiopia, 2022-10)
Reproductive health is a development issue, hence efforts are required to achieve the three zero’s
“zero unmet need for family planning services and information”, “zero preventable maternal deaths
and morbidities." and ...
Ministry of Health(Ministry of health - Ethiopia, 2022-10)
The Ministry of Health has instituted measures to accelerate the reduction of morbidity
and mortality through the implementation of the first Health Sector Transformation Plan
(HSTP-I) from 2016 to 2020 with other ...
Ministry of Health(Ministry of health - Ethiopia, 2022-10)
In 2016, responding to the World Health
Assembly resolution (WHA 68/15), Ethiopia
has designed the Saving Lives Through Safe
Surgery (SaLTS) initiative to make essential
and emergency surgical and anesthesia care
accessible ...
Ministry of Health(Ministry of health - Ethiopia, 2022)
Health information system is among the six building blocks of the health system that plays crucial roles in helping
the health system to provide equitable quality health care through proper use of quality data in service ...
Ministry of Health(Ministry of health - Ethiopia, 2022)
From 2016 to 2020, the Government of Ethiopia implemented a five-year national
safe surgery plan that aimed to expand access to safe, affordable, and timely emergency and essential
surgical care (EESC) in Ethiopia. ...