Background: an acceptable antenatal care (ANC4+) is defined as attending at least four antenatal care visit, received at least one dose of tetanus toxoid (TT) injections and consumed 100 iron-folic acids (IFA) ...

Background: Despite the substantial efforts to improve timely/early initiation of breastfeeding, avoidance of colostrum, and delayed initiation of breastfeeding remains a big challenge in developing countries. Therefore, ...

COVID-19 is the novel coronavirus responsible for the ongoing global outbreak of acute respiratory disease and viral pneumonia. In order to tackle the devastating condition of the virus, countries need to attack the virus ...

In Ethiopia, various studies have been done in order to determine the proportion of infants who had initiated complementary food timely and its associated factors. The results of these studies were not consistent and had ...

Background: Open defecation facilitates the transmission of pathogens that cause diarrheal diseases, which is the second leading contributor to the global burden of disease. It also exposed hundreds of millions of girls ...

Background: Soil-transmitted helminths caused millions of morbidity of preschool age children in sub-Saharan Africa with low socio-economic status and lack of clean water and sanitation. In Ethiopia, nearly half of children ...

Statements of the problem: More than half of all new HIV infections occur in 15 to 24 yearolds. Members of this age group feel less susceptible to adverse outcomes associated with risk behaviors and are therefore, at ...

Problem statement: Many governments in Africa tried alternative arrangements for paying, allocating, organizing and managing health resources. The strategy includes measures to ensure the benefit of poorest people. The ...

Background-Ethiopia is one of the developing countries which have low number of physicians partly due to the professionals’ migration to work elsewhere since long ago. Although some studies try to see the magnitude and ...

Background: The protective effect of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) against Tuberculosis (TB) may be affected by multiple factors. There is little or no information on the long-term impact of HAART on the ...