Cement production process is an important technology that contributes nation’s development but it is one of the major causes for global emissions such as NO2, SO2, Particulates and CO2 to result an adverse environmental ...
Surface and ground water have been under increasing threat of pollution in recent years due to improper management of vast amount of wastes generated by various human activities. Improper dump sites have served many years ...
This study focuses on impact of municipal solid waste leachate on the quality of soil at the Welaita Sodo Town municipal solid waste (MSW) dumpsite. Six soil and six leachate/wastewater samples were collected from six ...
Background: Outpatient therapeutic care program (OTP) of children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) has been decentralized to health post level in Ethiopia since 20082009. However, there is a lack of evidence regarding ...
Introduction: Adolescent nutritional problem is common throughout the world. They have to happenstance a sequence of serious nutritional trials not only affecting their growth and development but also their livelihood as ...
Background: Breakfast provides the necessary energy and nutrients to achieve an optimal physical and mental performance. It is also feasible to suggest that skipping breakfast impacts children‟s overall development. ...
Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin essential for proper functioning of the immune system. It comes in the form of retinol from animal sources or beta-carotene from plant source foods. Due to their increased nutrient demand ...
Background: Adequate diet quality is essential throughout the life cycle, for sufficient growth, for mental and physical development, and for minimizing the risks of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).The burden of ...
Back ground: Household adequately iodized salt coverage is one of WHO determinant factor for elimination of iodine related health sequels. Similarly, proper utilization of iodized salt has its own part alleviate iodine ...
Background: TB is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the Horn of Africa with Ethiopia carrying a heavy burden. Malnutrition is a critical yet underestimated factor in susceptibility to infection. Infection ...
Background: Globally, the most common cause of anemia is iron deficiency, which is responsible for about half of anemia cause in pregnancy, and it estimated that in developed countries 38% are iron depletion. In developing ...
Background:Iron/folic acid supplementation is feasible and cost effective strategy to control and prevent anemia in pregnancy. In Ethiopia,the national data suggests that from all pregnant women supplemented with these ...
Background: Both Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and malnutrition can independently cause progressive damage to the immune system. The former increases susceptibility to infection, morbidity and mortality through ...
Background:The number of children who are left orphaned in the world due to loss of parents has increased in recent years. Ethiopia contains and struggles to care for millions of orphaned children. Orphanages may lack ...
Background: Breast milk substitutes are defined as “any food being marketed or otherwise represented as a partial or total replacement of breast milk, whether or not the purpose fulfilled. To achieve optimal growth, ...
Background: Iron deficiency anemia is affecting the lives of 2 billion people which accounts almost 30% of world`s population. It is a major nutrient deficiency; contributor of morbidity and mortality of pregnant women ...
The aim of this research is to examine the performance of clarification unit at Wonji-Shoa sugar factory and setting optimum values for main clarifying reagents to improve the efficiency of clarification plant. The performance ...
Waste collection and disposal is a challenge for many sub cities in Dessie. Currently, all the waste generated in Dessie ends up at the final disposal sites without any recovery of the valuables in the waste. The overall ...
Water plays major role in the day-to-day activities of the societies and other living things.
However, fresh water is becoming polluted due to increased discharge from
manufacturing industries in the form of effluents ...
Wastewater from industry can lead to water pollution if untreated, especially due to its high concentration of heavy metals.
The discharge of untreated wastewater contaminates with heavy metals such as Cr(VI) and Cd2+ ...