Background: Despite the availability of sound TB control strategies, TB remains a major health problem in developing countries including Ethiopia. A quarter of the global TB burden is from Africa. TB is among the top 10 ...
Background: Diabetic retinopathy develops due to the damage of small capillaries of the retina and leaking of blood through these fragile vessels. It has developed via nonproliferative to proliferative retinopathy . It ...
Background: Tuberculosis is a disease caused by an organism called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Globally, 10.0 million people developed tuberculosis disease in 2017. Ethiopia is the third highest tuberculosis burden country ...
Background: Acute bloody diarrhea (dysentery) is defined as an acute bout of diarrhea lasting less than 14 days in which subjects are passing grossly bloody stools. In Africa, an estimate of 115 people dies of diarrheal ...
Background: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) adverse events can range from acute and potentially life threatening to chronic and insidious. Serious life-threatening events require the immediate discontinuation of all ARV drugs ...
Background: Bloody diarrhoea is defined as diarrhoea with visible or microscopic blood in the stool and cause severe complications such as septicemia, anemia and Zink deficiency particularly in young children. The 2016 ...
Background: Cervical cancer remains the most common cancer of women worldwide. Its burden is more serious in the developing countries. It is also the second common deaths of women in Ethiopia followed by breast cancer. ...
Background: Anthrax is a zoonotic disease and it is endemic in Ethiopia. Anthrax preventive measures are the key activities to control the anthrax disease. Several outbreaks of anthrax have occurred in humans in Ethiopia ...
Background: Immunization is a lifesaving and cost-effective health intervention which reduces childhood morbidity and mortality. There are still 19.9 millions of children who are unprotected by immunization first one year ...
Background: Refractive error is a visual impairment condition arising from the decreased ability of the eyes to focus light rays on the retina. Due to its impact on the learning process and educational capacity, ...
Introduction: Perinatal mortality is defined as fetal death after 28 weeks of gestation and newborn death within seven days. Globally, more than 2.6 million stillbirths and over 2.7 million early neonatal deaths are estimated ...
Introduction: Worldwide, stroke is a leading cause of mortality and disability. In Ethiopia, stroke is one of the diseases in the top five which causes death. In Felege hiwot comprehensive specialized hospital, for the ...
Introduction: Bordetella pertussis is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable respiratory illness, transmitted by coughing. Globally there were an estimated 24.1 million cases and 160,700 deaths in children fewer than ...
Introduction: The postnatal period starts from one hour after the birth of placenta and ends 42 days. The days and weeks following childbirth, the postnatal period, is a critical phase in the lives of mothers and newborn ...
Background: Postpartum hemorrhage is defined as loss of blood of more than 500 milliliters following a vaginal delivery or more than 1000 ml following caesarian section or blood loss that can cause hemodynamic derangement ...
Introduction: Malaria is a deadly disease that puts approximately 3.3 billion people at risk globally. Migrants traveling to endemic area are high risk groups that are mostly affected by malaria. Dangure woreda is a low ...
Background: Family planning helps women avoid unplanned or unwanted pregnancies, and prevent unsafe abortions. Expanding access to effective modern contraceptive method is essential for achieving universal access to ...
Background: Family planning helps women avoid unplanned or unwanted pregnancies, and prevent unsafe abortions. Expanding access to effective modern contraceptive method is essential for achieving universal access to ...
Background: Intestinal helminthes and Plasmodium infections remain a major health problem in many developing countries in population with poor economy and sanitary setting especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Even though there ...
Background: Late antenatal care initiation is the initiation of antenatal care by pregnant women after the recommended time (≤ 12 weeks of gestation) passed. It relates with maximizing maternal and fetal morbidity and ...