BACKGROUND In developing countries, children under the age of five years who live in slums are highly vulnerable to diarrhea. However, there is a paucity of information on the relationship between sanitation facilities and hygienic conditions to acute diarrhea among under-five children in slum areas of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Therefore, this study examines the sanitation facilities and hygienic ...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis remains a major public health problem in Ethiopia. In 2010 the TB treatment regimen was shortened from 8 to 6-months treatment. With this new regimen, the full course of treatment should be taken under Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) unlike the 8-month regimen where TB patients were only observed during the intensive phase, this has not been tried before and may be diffi...

In 2002, the African Union (AU) inaugurated its Chinese-funded, designed, built, and furnished headquarters building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, receiving admiration of leaders. The was hailed as a new material expression pan-African unity. This article explores affective potency AU built environment to unsettle unfurl conceptions identity. Beginning with an analysis sensory impressions outer app...

Leprosy is a medico-social problem and more than a disease . Statistics indicate that the disease, as a medical problem, has been decreasing steadily world wide since the advent of multi-drug therapy (MDT) in the early 1980s. However, the social dimensions of the disease in terms of stigma, poverty, disabilities and deformities, loss of self-respect and dignity have continued to constitute a ma...

BACKGROUND The problem of intermittent piped water supplies that exists in low- and middle-income countries is particularly severe in the slums of sub-Saharan Africa. However, little is known about whether there is deterioration of the microbiological quality of the intermittent piped water supply at a household level and whether it is a factor in reducing or increasing the occurrence of acute ...

Back ground: cholecystectomy for an acutely inflamed gall bladder is accompanied with significant perioperative complications Conservative (non operative management) considered to be the standard of care mainly in developed world. Non management still widely practiced many developing countries including Ethiopia. This study aimed assess outcome such a conservative teaching hospitals Addi...

In this work of creative nonfiction, I use a visit to an Ethiopian shoe factory, where observed the application Japanese methods productivity, as lens reflect on ambiguities, inconsistencies, and ethical dilemmas thrown up both by such fieldwork larger project promoting industrialization in Ethiopia. The reader is introduced cast characters present that day invited follow many them into setting...

Public transport service in Addis Ababa is provided by both public and private operators. However, the inability of sector to meet increasing demand has given rise emergence privately owned paratransit services. The minibus taxi dominant mode which provides a means mobility for majority city’s residents. still far from being efficient lot operational constraints. But, various attempts have been...

BACKGROUND Ethiopian people have been using traditional medicine since time immemorial with 80% of its population dependent on traditional medicines. However, the documentation of traditional healers' clinics contribution to modern public health system in cosmopolitan cities is scanty. Studies conducted so far are limited and focused on the perceptions and practices of modern and traditional he...