To respond to the low utilization of preventative health services in Ethiopia, the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) launched the Health Extension Program (HEP) in 2003 with a strong emphasis placed on rural health care ...

Ethiopia has made a significant progress on social development, including poverty reduction, with encouraging results on communicable disease control, improved nutrition, maternal and child health. The country is strongly ...

Acute and chronic viral hepatitis make a substantial contribution to the burden of chronic diseases and the premature mortality they cause. Infections with hepatitis B and C viruses cause liver cirrhosis and primary liver ...

Ethiopia has implemented the Reaching Every District (RED) approach to strengthen routine immunization (RI) services for over 15 years. In 2018, Ethiopia introduced an adapted version of the RED approach with guidance ...

Introduction: Ethiopia has implemented a massive and comprehensive economic reform over the last few decades and is one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Based on the United Nations’ (UN) estimate, the total ...

Malaria is a major public health problem in Ethiopia despite relatively low malaria prevalence compared to most other malaria-endemic countries in Africa. Unstable malaria transmission patterns make Ethiopia prone to ...

We have assembled and geo-coded national data on malaria parasite prevalence, parasite species, dominant vector species, altitude, aridity and the location of areas of special ecological risk. These data have been spatially ...

Achieving and maintaining acceptable levels of quality of care in the view of decentralization and rapid scale up of HIV prevention, care and treatment in Ethiopia is a matter of concern. But providing good quality health ...

This 7th edition of national guidelines on clinical and programmatic management of TB, DR-TB and Leprosy presents the most updated guidance on management of Tuberculosis and Leprosy in Ethiopia in accordance with the ...

Rationale: Over the past 20 years, the Federal Ministry of Health has been focusing on improving the quality of health care through designing and implementing different strategies and initiatives and it will remain a major ...