Ethiopia is engaged in a rapid and comprehensive development schemes to transition from poverty to sustainable and reliable growth and prosperity. The Government has therefore invested heavily in health system strengthening ...
Vaccination is one of the most cost-effective health interventions to prevent child morbidity,
disability, mortality, and complications from many infectious diseases. The development and
introduction of childhood ...
Ethiopia is the second-most populous
country in Africa, with a unique cultural
heritage, diverse population, mixed ethnicity,
and religion. Administratively, Ethiopia
comprises of 12 National Regional States
(NRSs) ...
Immunization program is one of the most cost-effective health interventions, with proven strategies to reach the
most hard-to-reach and vulnerable populations. Measurable achievements in terms of reducing morbidity and ...
The comprehensive multiyear plan (cMYP) is the
medium term or strategic plan for the Expanded
programme on Immunization (EPI) in Ethiopia,
prepared in consonance with the 5 year strategic
plan of the health sector ...
Ethiopia has more than 4 decades of immunization history, launched EPI program with 6 antigens
in 1980 and now reached to 13 antigens including COVID 19 vaccine in the routine program.
The program has been expanded in ...
This Implementation Roadmap is the first ever national framework along
with its Operational Guide, which is developed to provide milestones,
visibility, and strategic actions to be in place to operationalize the ...
This Operational Guide is the first ever national framework, which is
developed to provide information and guidance about how HDP actors can
implement their interventions in NC-HDPTN approach. It assists
actors to design ...
This is particularly so when barriers to providing the full
continuum of care for acutely malnourished children in such situations, such as supply or capacity
constraints, or in contexts with a high caseload and lack of ...
Globally, 60% of unintended pregnancies and 30% of all pregnancies or around
73 million are ending in induced abortion each year. It is estimated that 45%
of all abortions are unsafe of which 97% take place in developing ...
Health systems around the world are being overwhelmed by increasing demand for care of peo-
ple with public health emergencies such as COVID-19 that affected access for essential health
services. Evidence shows that ...
Preconception care (PCC) is defined as a set of interventions that aim to identify and modify biomedical,
behavioral, and social risks to improve pregnancy outcomes during preconception and between pregnancy
(inter-conception) ...
Over the last two decades, Ethiopia has made significant progress in improving maternal, newborn,
and child health status. According to the UN estimates, maternal mortality has decreased by 72%
from 1990`s maternal ...
Humanitarian Emergency around the world are growing in magnitude,
frequency, and duration, as it is the need for assistance in meeting the SRH
needs of the community. Globally, nearly 100 million people are in need ...
Globally, about 295,000 maternal deaths occurred in 2017, and 94% of all maternal deaths occurred in de
veloping countries. Sub-Saharan Africa alone accounted for roughly two-thirds (196,000) of maternal deaths.
Ethiopia ...
According the WHO adolescence is defined
as the period from 10 to 19 years, when an
individual undergoes major physical growth,
mental development and psychological
changes. (1-6). This period is divided into
early ...
Micronutrient deficiency is often referred to as “Hidden Hunger” as adequate food may be present, but the diet contains insufficient amounts of certain vitamins and minerals.
Micronutrient deficiencies (MNDs) are now ...
Malnutrition refers to deficiencies, excesses or imbalances in a person’s intake of energy and/or nutrients (WHO 2020). It is also defined as both under-nutrition and over nutrition, which includes micronutrient and ...
Irrational use of drugs has been one of the major problems in the Ethiopian health care system for a long time. Among the strategies devised to improve the situation, Medicine, Food and Healthcare Administration and Control ...
STGs promote therapeutically effective and economic use of medicinesat different levels of health
facilities, as they give clear guidance and recommendations about the treatment and management of
each clinical condition. ...