Background: Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or...
In this paper, we address two major questions. First, the question of whether China and India displace the African manufacturing export from the third market and, secondly, the question of whether there is an evidence for shifting comparative advantage from China and India to Africa as predicted by...
Introduction: Brucea antidysentrica locally known as “Abalo†is traditionally used to treat conditions like scabies and external parasites, dysentery, gonorrhea, eczema, cancer, malaria, and trypanosomosis among others. The fruits and leaves of B. antidysentrica are also claimed to...
Tomato as well as cassava yield is limited by virus diseases and which has been one of most important constraint for production of both crops. The genus Begomovirus belongs to family Geminiviridae and has emerged as more serious constraints to varieties of crops including tomato and cassava...
Background:Globally over 9 out of 10 women wants to avoid pregnancies after having a child but only one in seven of mothers who want to avoid pregnancy are not using family planning method. Majority of the women wanted to space births and hence have high desire to avoid getting pregnant soon after...
Giardia lamblia and Cryptosporidium parvum are parasitic protozoans that infectrnhumans as well as domestic and wild animals all over the world. These parasites arernimplicated in many water borne disease outbreaks in different parts of the world. Thernpresent study was conducted to assess the...
Background: Intestinal helminthic infections have been suggested to play protective role from allergicrnsensitization and atopic diseases. There is a concern that deworming could increase the prevalence ofrnatopic disease in endemic populations. There is inconsistent and little information about...
The temporal and spatial variations in the biomass and photosynthetic production ofrnphytoplankton in relation to some physico-chemical environmental factors wererninvestigated at two (offshore and near-shore) stations in Lake Chama from August,rn2003 to May, 2004. Inorganic nutrients varied...
Diarrhea is a common cause of death in developing countries. It is also one of thernprimary causes of morbidity and mortality on a global scale, leading to 1 billionrndisease episodes and 1.8 million deaths each year, among children under five years ofrnage. Due to limitations associated with...
Background: Persons working in clinical diagnostic laboratories are exposed to many risks. The mostrnhazardous agent in the laboratory is a microorganism that is frequently associated withrnlaboratory infections and can be transmitted in variety of routes, especially by aerosols.rnMoreover,...
Many people still experience pain and inflammation regardless of the available drugs for treatments. In addition, the available drugs have many side effects, which necessitated a quest for new drugs from several sources with medicinal plants being one of them. This study evaluated the analgesic and...
In Ethiopia, chloroquine was the first line anti-malarial drug used for the treatment ofrnuncomplicated falciparum malaria for more than 40 years, until very high treatment failurernrates were demonstrated through studies conducted in 1997/98. Following these findings,rnthe national drug policy for...
Being the most important modifiable risk factor for stroke, renal, vascular and heart diseases; hypertension is still one of the leading causes of disability, morbidity and mortality among the populace worldwide. Consequently, the continued search for alternative antihypertensive agents of natural...
The demand for improved water services is determined by a number of socio-economic andrndemographic factors and water attributes. Information on the demand side are relevant for policyrnpurposes such as tariff structure and the choices of appropriate water supply schemes. variousrnmethods of...
Background: - Young People are, highly vulnerable for reproductive health problems. The situation is aggravated by low level of awareness, poor availability of service and health service seeking behavior of youths. Reproductive health services for young people in Addis Ababa are emerging in varying...
Background:rnInternal quality control (IQC) is designed to detect, reduce, and correctrndeficiencies in a laboratory's internal analytical process prior to the release of patient results, inrnorder to improve the quality of the results reported by the laboratory. As different studiesrnindicated, 5%...
The purpose of the study is to document and analyze information on the use, conservation and threat ofrnmedicinal plants in Gimbi Woreda, west Wellega Zone. Data collection was accomplished throughrnactive participation of healers and knowledgeable elders who practice traditional medicine...
Background: Sexual violence is a common and serious public health problem. The mostrncommon place where sexual violence is experienced is school. Sexual violence usually occursrnwhen she is unable to understand the situation. The most important cause for this is substancernuse.rnObjective: The...
Inhalation Corticosteroids (ICS) is a cornerstone medicine for preventive therapy of persistencernasthma. However, underutilization of ICS is common and little is known about factorsrncontributing to this underutilization. The objective of this study was to assess factors associatedrnwith...
Malaria and leishmaniasis are neglected tropical parasitic diseases affecting billons of people around the globe. Owing to their promising antimalarial and antileishmanial activities, seven novel 2-(substitutedstyryl)-3-aryl-4(3H)-quinazolinones were synthesized in good yields (65.2-86.4%) by using...