Tuberculosis control policies emphasize the importance of case finding and treatment, particularly ofSmear-positive cases aiming at a cure rate of 85%. This is a Cross-sectional survey which was mainlyaimed to estimate the magnitude of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis among Addis Ababa City Busdrivers and cash collectors. The specific objectives were to determine the proportion...

Affiliations: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Department of Public Health, Antwerp, Belgium (W Van Damme, MD, MPH, K Hermann, MA, MPH); School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda (GW Pariyo, MBChB, PhD); Department of HIV and AIDS, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi; Management Sciences for Health, Lilongwe, Malawi (EJ Schouten, MD, MPH); Federal HIV/AIDS Prevention and Con...

The Private Sector Program-Ethiopia (PSP-E) is focused on increasing the capacity of private sector health care providers to deliver HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) services. Abt Associates Inc., the lead PSP-E partner, works with Population Services International, IntraHealth International, and Banyan Global to support the implementation of TB/Directly Observed Therapy–Short Course (DOTS) servi...

Atalay Alem, Lars Jacobsson, Niels Lynöe, Robert Kohn, Gunnar Kullgren* Amanuel Psychiatric Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Psychiatry, Umeå University, S-901 85 Umeå, Sweden Department of Nursing, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA Department of Clinical Sciences...

Yezihalem Tesfa Dagnaw, Instructor and Assistant Researcher, St. Mary’s University College P.O.Box 16229 Addis Ababa Ethiopia [email protected] Abstract Why we Ethiopians are celebrated for unforgettable images of chronically malnourished children with large skeletal heads clinging to their mothers dried up breasts? Why we are still forced to seek for food aid when there is ample local...

1 Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC), Granada, Spain, 2 Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico, 3 Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Rome, Italy, 4 Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute and Entoto Observatory and Research Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 5 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact ...

*Corresponding author: Getinet Ayano, Research and Training Department, Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Tel: +2519-27-17-29-68; Email: [email protected] Rec date: Sep 02, 2016; Acc date: Sep 12, 2016; Pub date: Sep 16, 2016 Copyright: © 2016 Ayano G. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which per...

Copyright: © 2017 Pal M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Leptospirosis: An Infectious Emerging Waterborne Zoonosis of Global Significance Mahendra Pal1* and Angesom Hadush2 1Ex-Professor...

The eighties and nineties saw a growing global concern for the rights and welfare of children. This culminated in the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 20 November 1989. This was closely followed by the adoption of the Organisation of African Unity’s Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child by the Assembly of Heads of St...

The lack of persons trained in computational linguistic methods is a severe obstacle to making the Internet and computers accessible to people all over the world in their own languages. The paper discusses the experiences of designing and teaching an introductory course in Natural Language Processing to graduate computer science students at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, in order to initiate...