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Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Trachoma in Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia: Results of 40 Population-Based Prevalence Surveys Carried Out with the Global Trachoma Mapping Project. [PDF]

, 2016
PURPOSE: We sought to estimate the prevalence of trachoma at sufficiently fine resolution to allow elimination interventions to begin, where required, in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR) of Ethiopia.
Adamu, Yilikal, Adera, Tesfaye Haileselassie, Alemayehu, Wondu, Beyene, Abu, Chu, Brian K, Dejene, Michael, Destu, Tezera Kifle, Endriyas, Misganu, Kalua, Khumbo, Letamo, Yohannes, Macleod, Colin, Mekonnen, Emebet, Mesele, Tamiru, Misganaw, Tebeje, Mulugeta, Yeneneh, Sisay, Alemayehu, Smith, Jennifer L, Solomon, Anthony W, Tadesse, Addisu, Willis, Rebecca   +19 more
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Sub-national prevalence survey of tuberculosis in rural communities of Ethiopia

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Tuberculosis is a major public health problem with varying prevalence in different settings. National prevalence surveys provide evidence for planning and decision making.
Daniel G. Datiko, Ermias Amsalu Guracha, Elias Michael, Girum Asnake, Meaza Demisse, Sally Theobald, Olivia Tulloch, Mohammed A. Yassin, L. E. Cuevas   +8 more
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Determinants of timely initiation of breastfeeding among mothers in Goba Woreda, South East Ethiopia : a cross sectional study [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Although breastfeeding is universal in Ethiopia, ranges of regional differences in timely initiation of breastfeeding have been documented. Initiation of breastfeeding is highly bound to cultural factors that may either enhance or inhibit the
Setegn, Tesfaye, Gerbaba, Mulusew, Lema, Tefera Belachew   +2 more
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Medicinal plant use practice in four ethnic communities (Gurage, Mareqo, Qebena, and Silti), south central Ethiopia

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020
Background Ethnic groups throughout the world have developed their own cultures expressed in the form of customs, taboos, and traditional healthcare systems.
Alemtshay Teka, Zemede Asfaw, Sebsebe Demissew, Patrick Van Damme   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association of conjunctival bacterial infection and female sex in cicatricial trachoma. [PDF]

, 2012
PURPOSE: Conjunctival infection with non-chlamydial bacteria may play an important role in the progression of trachoma, especially with regard to the development of corneal opacity and blindness.
Alemayehu, Wondu, Cevallos, Vicky, Chidambaram, Jaya D, Gaynor, Bruce D, Keenan, Jeremy D, Lee, Scott, Lietman, Thomas M, Melese, Muluken, Reddy, Harsha, Whitcher, John P, Yi, Elizabeth   +10 more
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Prevalence of placental malaria among asymptomatic pregnant women in Wolkite health center, Gurage zone, Southern Ethiopia

Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines, 2020
Background Placental malaria (PM) is a major public health problem associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes such as low birth weight (LBW), preterm delivery and maternal anemia.
Absra Solomon, Daniel Kahase, Mihret Alemayhu   +2 more
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Response to COVID-19 recommended preventive behavioral messages among Guraghe zone communities, South Ethiopia: using constructs of the Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM)

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2023
Introduction The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 is a pandemic disease. Countries should take standard measures and responses to battle the effects of the viruses.
Abdurezak Kemal, Kenzudin Assfa, Bisrat Zeleke, Mohammed Jemal, Musa Jemal, Shemsu Kedir, Amare Zewdie, Samuel Dessu, Fedila Yassin, Adane Habtie   +9 more
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Morphological variation and inter-relationships of quantitative traits in enset (Ensete ventricosum (welw.) Cheesman) germplasm from South and South-Western Ethiopia [PDF]

, 2017
Enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) is Ethiopia's most important root crop. A total of 387 accessions collected from nine different regions of Ethiopia were evaluated for 15 quantitative traits at Areka Agricultural Research Centre to determine ...
Bekele, Brandt, Diro, Diro, Elings, Federer, Frankel, Haile, Ketema, Pecetti, Smeds, Stanley, Tesfaye, Westphal, Yemataw, Yemataw, Yeshitla   +16 more
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Essential newborn care practice and its associated factors in Southwest Ethiopia

Archives of Public Health, 2021
Background Essential newborn care is a wide-ranging strategy intended to improve the health of newborns by implementing appropriate interventions. Approximately in 2018, an estimated 2.5 million children died in their first month of life, which is ...
Haimanot Abebe, Daniel Adane, Solomon Shitu   +2 more
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Community-based nutrition education and counselling provided during pregnancy: effects on knowledge and attitude towards iron-folic acid supplementation

Journal of Nutritional Science
Maternal malnutrition is pervasive throughout the world, notably in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia. This study examined the effect of community-based iron-folic acid supplementation (IFAS) nutrition education on IFAS knowledge and attitude among ...
Mensur Reshid, Anchamo Anato
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