Title: Contraceptive use among lactating women in Ganta-Afeshum District, Eastern Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, 2015: A cross sectional study Authors: Alem Gebremariam ([email protected]) Hadush Gebremariam ([email protected]) Version: 1 Date: 26 Oct 2017 Author’s response to reviews: Point by point response to reviewers Title: Contraceptive use among lactating women in Ganta-Afeshum District, Ea...

1 Burie Agricultural College, P.O. Box Rissneleden 19, Sundbyberg, 17453 Stockholm, Sweden 2 Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute (ARARI), P.O. Box 527, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia 3 School of Natural Resources Management and Environmental Science, Haramaya University, P.O. Box 138, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia 4 International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), P.O. Box 95076...

1. Overview This report identifies and collates studies involving longitudinal social research in Ethiopia. There are a limited number of studies which fall under this classification. Much of the longitudinal research in Ethiopia focuses on health or agricultural sectors, rather than social issues. Some health studies are included in this report as they involve social dimensions or behavioural ...

Human visceral (VL, also known as Kala-azar) and cutaneous (CL) leishmaniasis are important infectious diseases affecting countries in East Africa that remain endemic in several regions of Ethiopia. The transmission and epidemiology of the disease is complicated due to the complex life cycle of the parasites and the involvement of various Leishmania spp., sand fly vectors, and reservoir animals...

Nigerseed as an Oilseed Crop Nigerseed (Guizotia abyssinica, Asteraceae) is native to Africa, from Ethiopia to Malawi, and was probably domesticated in Ethiopia. Early introduction of nigerseed to India was followed by the development of sizeable commercial production (Simmonds 1976) and neighboring Pakistan also cultivates the crop (Weiss 2000). Nigerseed is an important oil crop in Ethiopia a...

Background Mental and neurological (MN) health care has long been neglected in low-income settings. This paper estimates health and non-health impacts of fully publicly financed care for selected key interventions in the National Mental Health Strategy in Ethiopia for depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and epilepsy. Methods A methodology of extended cost-effectiveness analysis (ECEA)...

Prevalence of Relapse and Associated Factors in Patient with Schizophrenia at Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Institution Based Cross Sectional Study Zewdu Shewangizaw Weret 1 and Roan Mukherjee 2 1. College of Medicine and Health sciences, Arbaminch University, Arbaminch, Ethiopia 2. Dept. of Human Physiology, Hazaribag College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Jhark...

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...

Department of Biology, Madawalabu University, Post Box No: 247, Bale Zone, Robe, Ethiopia. Department of Chemistry, Madawalabu University, Post Box No: 247, Bale Zone, Robe, Ethiopia Department of Microbiology, Sri Sankara Art s and Science College (Affiliated to Madras University), Enathur, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India Department of Zoology-DDE Wing, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar-608...

BACKGROUND Risky sexual practice is a major public health problem in Ethiopia. There are various studies on the prevalence and determinants of risky sexual practice in different regions of the country but there is no study which shows the national estimate of risky sexual practices in Ethiopia. Therefore, this review was conducted to estimate the national pooled prevalence of risky sexual pract...