Background: Mother to child transmission (MTCT) is responsible for the vast majority
(90%) of new childhood HIV infections. Without intervention, HIV-infected mothers
have a 35 percent overall risk of transmitting HIV ...
Background: Anemia is a condition that affects 25% to 50% of the world
population, and approximately 50% of the pregnant women. Many unwanted
complications of pregnancy have been linked to anemia. The prevalence and
the ...
Problem statement: Ensuring the provision of good quality of TB care in DOTS strategy is an
important component of TB control to reduce the harmful effects of poor medical practice and
enhances clients' satisfaction and ...
Background: the health care that a woman receives during pregnancy, at the time of delivery
and soon after delivery is important for the survival and well-being of both the mother and the
baby. Focused ante natal care ...
Background: Immunization is one of the most successful and cost-effective public health
interventions to prevent illnesses and deaths from vaccine preventable diseases. Nevertheless,
universal access and coverage of ...
Background: In Ethiopia up to 80% of the population uses traditional medicine
due to cultural acceptability of healers and the relatively low cost of traditional
medicine and difficult access to modern health facilities. ...
HIV/AIDS is a family disease and one of the models used in care of PLHIVs is a chronic care model with
family focused care. Family focused care has potential to improve adherence to ART, quality of life and
prevention ...
Background: HIV/AIDS mainstreaming is a newly developed approach to address the issue of
HIV/AIDS response in all sectors. To realize this response different guidelines & toolkits were
developed nationally & internationally, ...
Background: Scientific information on the number of IPT beneficiaries, their rate of adherence visà-
vis determinants of adherence is scarce in Ethiopia. Hence, it was practically impossible to discuss
whether the ...
Background: Vaccines potency and injection safety issues are a concern to all levels of the
service centers including the big urban center like Addis Ababa. Therefore, knowing
contributing factors and the magnitude of ...
Background Puberty is accompanied by physical, psychological and emotional changes which
trigger cognitive and behavioural changes. There is a great need to ensure a positive transition to
manhood and woman hood in order ...
Background
Little information exists about Factors affecting desire to have children among HIV-positive women
especially in developing countries. So knowing circumstances around fertility of HIV-positive
women is crucial ...
Background: Although HBC programs are believed to have multiple benefits for the health
system, the patients and the community, its dependence on volunteers who are mostly poor
made its sustainability questionable. The ...
Back ground: Given the critical role of adherence in a successful ART program, strategies to
support PLHIV to adhere to care and treatment should be developed and providers of care,
partners, community members and PLHIV ...
Background: The Ethiopian ART program has improved survival of patients thru increasing
access to ART. Many patients fail to benefit from ART because of early drug intolerance, poor
adherence, and potentially other ...
Background: Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Ethiopia. Over 55
million population live in areas at risk of malaria transmission. Ethiopia is one of the most
malaria epidemic prone countries in ...
Back ground: The Addis Ababa taxi community populations estimated to be 28,000, almost all
are males, majority of them were young age 15-35 and sexually active with multiple sexual
partners, consumed alcohol and chat ...
Background: The single-point estimate for HIV prevalence in Ethiopia for adults 15-49 is 2.1%.
In Ethiopia, there are more than 131,000 new HIV infections every year (2). No one-dimensional
HIV/AIDS solution has ever ...
Introduction: Night blindness has been recognized as a public health problem in women of
reproductive age. Globally, night blindness affects 9.8 million women which correspond to 7.8%
of the population at risk of vitamin ...