The National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) is a multi-year, country- owned plan that is a critical blueprint to strengthen the capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to public health threats. Ethiopia has ...

According to estimates from the population-based cancer registry in Addis Ababa, approximately two-thirds of all cancer cases in Ethiopia occur in women. Among the most prevalent types of cancer in the country, breast ...

When launching the Quality of Care Network in February 2017, the country’s leading it - Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, India, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda, joined in 2018 by Sierra Leone - committed ...

Ethiopia, led by the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) and with support from different sectors and stakeholders, has been actively implementing the national action plan for health security (NAPHS). The plan was ...

In the health sector, the National Core Plan serves as an annual framework aimed at fulfilling the objectives specified in the strategic plan, which focuses on both long-term and medium-term goals. To effectively achieve ...

Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early ...

Hand hygiene is one of the personal hygiene components and is believed in improving health, saves lives by preventing infections and thereby guarantees good health and contributes to the social and economic development of ...

Ethiopia has implemented the Reaching Every District (RED) approach to strengthen routine immunization (RI) services for over 15 years. In 2018, Ethiopia introduced an adapted version of the RED approach with guidance ...

This 7th edition of national guidelines on clinical and programmatic management of TB, DR-TB and Leprosy presents the most updated guidance on management of Tuberculosis and Leprosy in Ethiopia in accordance with the latest ...

The population of Ethiopia is estimated to be nearly 86 million people, of whom 83.8% live in rural areas and 16.2% are urban dwellers (CSA, 2007). Women and men constitute 49.5% and 50.5% of the total population, respectively. ...