To respond to the low utilization of preventative health services in Ethiopia, the Federal Ministry of
Health (FMOH) launched the Health Extension Program (HEP) in 2003 with a strong emphasis
placed on rural health care ...
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 ...
Ethiopia has made a significant progress on social development, including poverty reduction, with
encouraging results on communicable disease control, improved nutrition, maternal and child health.
The country is strongly ...
In 2006/07, Ethiopia had a health workforce density of 0.7 doctors, nurses and midwives per 1,000 population.
Compared to the WHO recommendation of 2.3 per 1,000 population required for attaining adequate coverage ...
Acute and chronic viral hepatitis make a substantial contribution to the burden of chronic diseases and
the premature mortality they cause. Infections with hepatitis B and C viruses cause liver cirrhosis and
primary liver ...
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 ...
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 ...
Introduction: Ethiopia has implemented a massive and comprehensive economic reform over
the last few decades and is one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Based on the United
Nations’ (UN) estimate, the total ...
The MOH developed a National Health Care
Quality Strategy in 2016 (2016-2020). The
goal of the NQS is to consistently improve the
outcomes of clinical care, patient safety and
patient centeredness, while increasing ...
Malaria is a major public health problem in Ethiopia despite relatively low malaria prevalence compared
to most other malaria-endemic countries in Africa. Unstable malaria transmission patterns make Ethiopia
prone to ...
n the context of the health sector reform and decentralization in Ethiopia, generating health information and intelligence that is standardized, integrated and well linked at all levels is well recognized to monitor the ...
We have assembled and geo-coded national data on malaria parasite prevalence, parasite species,
dominant vector species, altitude, aridity and the location of areas of special ecological risk. These
data have been spatially ...
The facilitators’ guide of the gender trainingmanual for the health sector is a
comprehensive guide to conduct a six day course. This guide consists of seven modules
and different sessions. Eachmodule contains module ...
Achieving and maintaining acceptable levels of quality of care in the view of decentralization and rapid scale up of HIV prevention, care and treatment in Ethiopia is a matter of concern. But providing good quality health ...
Clearly, people are the lifeblood of any viable organization. In any country, including Ethiopia,
sixty to seventy percent of the public health sector‘s budget goes to recurrent personnel costs.
Given this cost, it is ...
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 ...
The content of the training manual has been prepared based mainly on WHO training module on
malaria control: case management, guide for participants and on WHO’s 3rd edition, guidelines for
the treatment of malaria, the ...
Rationale: Over the past 20 years, the Federal Ministry of Health has been focusing on improving the quality of health care through designing and implementing different strategies and initiatives and it will remain a major ...
The rising cancer burden is a major public health concern globally. There were an estimated
million new cases and 10 million new deaths worldwide in 2020. Breast cancer has the highest incidence amongst all cancers, with ...