Vector borne diseases (VBD) are emerging or resurging as a result of changes in public health policy,
insecticide and drug resistance, demographic and societal changes, and genetic change in pathogens. In 2015
malaria ...
Laboratory medicine encompasses testing services and associated practices for screening, diagnosis,
treatment and prevention of numerous health related problems and deadly diseases. It helps detect,
identify, and promptly ...
The quality and credibility of health evidence generated is mostly a portray of the quality and standard of
the data used and partly the scientific methods applied to make sense out of them. Maintaining quality of
data ...
The Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) is the technical wing of the Federal Ministry of
Health (FMoH) in which its mandate is revised following a business process re-engineering (BPR)
in 2009. The thematic areas ...
The world is now desperate to find ways to slow the spread of
the novel coronavirus and to find effective treatments. To date,
there are more than 200 clinical trials of COVID-19 treatments
or vaccines that are either ...
COVID-19 does not discriminate between race, color or
creed and anybody is at risk of contracting the disease. Most people who
catch COVID-19 likely experiences mild symptoms and are back to normal
health within days. ...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak that started in
Wuhan, Hubei province, China in December 2019 has now extended
across the globe. Even though SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the Coronavirus
family, due to its new ...
Information is Liberating” Kofi Annan, a late United Nations General Secretary
General. Information helps for nation building when it comes from the right source
and well managed. Information can come from different ...
The National Information Platform for Nutrition (NIPN) is part of a global initiative supported by the
European Union, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the United Kingdom Department for
International Development ...
Natural and manmade public health emergencies and disasters have become major challenges around
the globe. Climate change, increasing human population, industrialization, rapidly growing
international trade and tourism, ...