Medical Education Partnership (mepi), Ethiopia: Objectives and Overview of Key Accomplishments.

Background: Addis Ababa University (AA) is one of the thirteen medical schools (in twelve countries) in Africa that are recipients of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI). MEPI-Ethiopia is a consortia project that involved four Ethiopian medical schools (College of Health Sciences (CHS) at Addis Ababa University, Defence Medical College, Schools of Medicine at Hawassa and Haramaya Universities) as well as United States (US) partner Universities: Alabama, Emory, John Hopkins, California-San Diego, and Wisconsin. Funding for the project that spanned for five years has come from Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) and the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA).