objective: to study the association between social, demographic, cultural and maternal care practice variables and obstetric fistula status in ethiopia. materials and methods: the most recent ethiopia demographic and health survey conducted in 2005 is used to study the association between social, demographic, cultural and maternal care practice and obstetric fistula. we use both univariate and ...

Author details Clinical Studies Department, College of Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture, Addis Ababa University, P.O. Box 34, Bishoftu, Ethiopia. Department of Animal Science, University of Tennessee, 2506 River Drive, Knoxville, USA. College of Veterinary Science, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia. College of Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture, Samara University, P.O. Box 132, Samara, ...

background: there were about of 124 to 283 million cases of malaria with 367,000 to 755,000 deaths annually. this study aimed to assess the prevalence of malaria cases and associated risk factors among attendants at chichu and wonago health centers, south ethiopia. methods: in this health institution based cross sectional study, 324 subjects, attendants from outpatient department who came for a...

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this article examines the livelihood strategies of land scarce peasants in ethiopian. land scarce peasants have a limited livelihood security on a sustainable manner and bypassed by major development programmes. the study was centred on two sets of rationales. first, for those peasants who do not have sufficient farmland, agriculture provides only a limited portion of households’ livelihood sec...

1 Department of Biomedicine, School of Health Science, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia 2 Department of Medical Microbiology, Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 3 Department of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 4 Department of Microbiology, School of Biomed...

The study assessed the health quality of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) seed samples collected from formal and informal sector in Ethiopia and Syria. In Ethiopia, several seed-borne fungi were found on wheat samples: Cochliobolus sativum, Fusarium avenaceum, F. graminearum, F. nivale, F. poae and Septoria nodorum. C. sativum was predominant with 84% of samples...

1Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia. 2Biotechnology Institute, Addis Ababa University. P.O. Box 1176 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 3Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Addis Ababa University, P.O. box 1176 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 4Department of Biomedical Science, Adama Science and Technology University, Ethiopia. 5Division of Biology and Medici...

Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Pathology, College of Public Health and Medical Sciences, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia Department of Health Education and Behavioral Sciences, College of Public Health and Medical Sciences, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia Department of medicine, college of medicine and health sciences, Debremarkose University, Debremarkose, Ethiopia Department...

Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia is a nonprofit organization [3] that began in 1974 as a joint endeavor by Reginald and Catherine Hamlin and the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia promotes reproductive health in Ethiopia by raising awareness and implementing treatment and preventive services for women affected by obstetric fistulas. It also aims to restore the...