Results: There were 226 epileptic patients involved in this study. 77.9% were from Addis Ababa. The lowest MMSE score was 17, whereas the mean and median were 26.92 and 28, respectively. The median MMSE for females and males were 28 and 29, respectively. Educational status was found to be the single most important determinant of mean MMSE. There was also statistically significant association be...

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*Corresponding author: Mailing address: National Polio Laboratory, Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute, P.O. Box 1242, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Fax: +251-1-757722, E-mail: [email protected] The polio eradication initiative in Ethiopia started in 1996. We examined the performance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance in Ethiopia by region. The criteria of good AFP surveilla...

Introduction: Hypertension and diabetes mellitus are currently the usual causes of morbidity and mortality among non-communicable diseases in both developed and developing countries. When occur together, the risk of death from cardiovascular diseases will double. Objective: This study was intended to assess the antihypertensive drug prescription pattern and blood pressure control among diabetic...

1 Operational Research Unit, Medical Department, Operational Centre Brussels, Medecins sans Frontieres, MSFLuxembourg, Luxembourg, Germany 2 Medecins sans Frontieres, Geneva, Switzerland 3 Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, Flemish Institute of Biotechnology, Brussels, Belgium 4 Department of Microbiology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium 5 Medecins Sans Frontier...

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In a study designed to throw light on the natural history of asthma in Ethiopia, 91 patients living at 2500 metres and attending asthma clinics in Addis Ababa underwent spirometric and skinprick testing. Only eight had had symptoms of asthma before the age of 16. Sixty two had a history of allergic rhinitis and 16 had a family history of allergic rhinitis; 33 had a family history of asthma. In ...

Some archaeologists have suggested recently that clusters of houses at Classic Maya sites functioned as urban neighborhoods. This article presents comparative historical and ethnographic data from low-density cities to support this interpretation. I review two Mesoamerican cases: the Aztec calpolli and the modern Tzotzil house cluster; and urban clusters in two African cases: the Nupe city of B...

In addition to their ability to reach distant learners, interactive e-learning environments have the potential to make the teaching-learning process more effective. This paper highlights some of the e-learning implementation efforts at the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (AAiT) in Ethiopia. This case study shows that limited resources do not deter a developing nation from exploiting the pow...

Department of International Development, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, University of Warwick, Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, Warwick, UK, Instituto de Investigación Nutric...