The ultimate goal of primary health care (PHC), as a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach, is to achieve the highest level of health by bringing health services closer to the users. This entails that PHC should ...

Desire to have more children are a normal phenomenon in many developing countries including Ethiopia .The Human ImmunodeficiencyVirus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome prevalence recently in Harar was highest next to ...

The maternal continuum of care (CoC) is an approach that improves maternal health and significantly reduces the risk of maternal and neonatal mortality. However, there is dearth of recent evidence on the inequality and ...

Diarrhea is defined as the passing of three or more loose or watery stools within a day. It's the second leading cause of death among under-five children worldwide, particularly in sub-Saharan African countries, including ...

In Ethiopia, infection by the new corona virus strain SARS-CoV-2 and its related syndrome COVID-19 has been associated with more than seven thousand deaths. Patients of higher age and with preexisting chronic health ...

Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, claiming 11.6% of all lives and contributing to 57% of total disability-adjusted life years. Nearly one-fifth of stroke patients die during hospitalization, ...

Diabetes is the leading cause of end-stage renal disease. Approximately, 40% or more of patients with diabetic mellitus develops diabetic nephropathy, which is the major cause of chronic kidney disease requiring dialysis ...

Eclampsia is defined by a sudden onset of generalized tonic-clonic convulsions in a patient having signs and symptomsof preeclampsia. Mothers with eclampsia can face potentially fatal complications such as acute renal ...

Infection in healthcare facilities is a major public health problem in most developing countries like Ethiopia. Currently, the overall incidence of health care associated infectionsand the burden of the infections had been ...

Diarrhea is the second most prevalent cause of death in children under the age of five and affects around 1.7 billion children worldwide every year, killing an estimated 525 000 people. Similar to this, diarrheal disease ...