1 Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, 2 Myeloid Cell Immunology Laboratory, VIB, Brussels, Belgium, 3 Operational Research Unit, Medical Department, Médecins Sans Frontières – Operational Centre Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, 4 Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 5 ...

BACKGROUND Dying at home is highly prevalent in Africa partly due to lack of accessibility of modern health services. In turn, limited infrastructure and health care deliveries in Africa complicate access to health services. A weak infrastructure and limited health facilities with lower quality in Ethiopia resulted poor health service utilization and coverage, high morbidity and mortality rates...

Background Cardiovascular disease poses a great financial risk on households in countries without universal health coverage like Ethiopia. This paper aims to estimate the magnitude and intensity of catastrophic health expenditure and factors associated with catastrophic health expenditure for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease in general and specialised cardiac hospitals in Addi...

BACKGROUND Sexual abuse of boys is a neglected problem in many developing countries including Ethiopia. As a result, its prevalence, contributing factors and circumstance in which sexual abuse occurs are largely unknown. The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence and factors associated with sexual abuse of male high school students in Addis Ababa city administration. METHODS A...

Intramedullary Cavernous Haemangioma Of Spinal Cord: A case report and Literature Review Tadios Muni M.D, Hagos Biluts M.D. Senior consultant Neurosurgeon,Expert medical Specialist General surgeon. Tikur Anbessa Hospital, Department Of Surgery, Medical Faculty, Addis Abeba University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Correspondence to: Dr.Tadios Munie, Tikur Anbessa Hospital, and P.O.Box 9086, Addis Abeb...

The efficacy of synthetic inorganic insecticides to control malaria vector mosquitoes is compromised by increased mosquito resistance to insecticides. Furthermore, use of inorganic insecticides raises serious environmental toxicity concerns. The test plants, Oreosyce africana and Piper capense were identified in Ethiopia through ethnobotanical leads obtained on the basis formal and informal fie...

BACKGROUND In the absence of reliable data, antenatal HIV surveillance has been used to monitor the HIV epidemic since the late 1980s. Currently, routine data from Prevention of Mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programmes are increasingly available. Evaluating whether the PMTCT programme reports provide comparable HIV prevalence estimates with the antenatal surveillance reports is impor...

s/full/28.pdf). Ayalew, W., van Dorland, A. & Rowlands, J. 2004. Design, execution and analysis of the livestock breed survey in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. Addis Ababa and Nairobi. OADB (Oromia Agricultural Development Bureau) and ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute). DAGRIS. 2004. Domestic Animal Genetic Resources Information System (DAGRIS). J.E.O. Rege, W. Ayalew & E. Geta...

*Correspondence [email protected] Department of preventive medicine, School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Department of preventive medicine, School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, [email protected] ABSTRACT Background: Prevention of unintended pregnancy among HIV positive women is the second component of “global plan” that can reduce the desperate st...

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 Haramay...