Background: Malaria and HIV/AIDS are the two most common infections in sub-SaharanrnAfrica and worldwide with the half of world’s population at risk of malaria and nearly 39.5rnmillion PLWHA. HIV infected individuals living in malaria-endemic areas experience frequentrnand severe malaria...
Background: Breast cancer is a major public health problem with significant morbidity andrnmortality in women worldwide. Studies in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have shown that thernestimated 5-year survival in women with breast cancer is below 50%, which is significantlyrnlower than those from...
Background: The provision of medication therapy management services aims to prevent,rnidentify and resolve drug-related problems (DTPs), thereby reducing morbidity and mortality asrnwell as helping patients achieve improved clinical outcomes. Epilepsy is one of the mostrncommon neurological...
Introduction: Quality of life of patients living with schizophrenia has been shown to be lowerrncompared with those that are not affected by it, Understanding the possible contributing factorsrncould create awareness as well as help design patient centered therapeutic interventionsrnObjective: To...
Background: Undertreatment of pain is common in emergency department. The major reasonsrnare lack of staff training in recognition, measurement and adequate pain treatment. Despite thernglobal attention being given over the years, undertreatment of pain in the clinical practice isrnstill an issue. ...
Introduction:Type II diabetes is an alarming rate problem globally and in Ethiopia due tornchange in diatery habits and sedentary life style. Serious complications are associated withrndiabetes, particularly macrovascular and microvascular complications. Early controlling bloodrnglucose...
Background: - Work-related stress is one of the health problems modern societies have to dealrnwith. Such stress is the second most reported work-related health problem next tornmusculoskeletal disorders. Job dissatisfaction could be one reason for work-related stress.rnHowever, there is no clear...
Introduction: Studies from high-income countries have shown that complications in a previousrnpregnancy or at childbirth are associated with common mental disorders (CMD) and post-traumatic stressrndisorder (PTSD) in the subsequent pregnancy. Even though pregnancy and obstetric complications...
Background: Perioperative anxiety is described as a vague, uneasy feeling, the source of which isrnoften nonspecific and unknown to the individual. It has the potential to affect all aspects ofrnanesthesia such as preoperative visit, induction, perioperative and recovery periods. Although...
Background rnTuberculosis is among major public health problems throughout the world and leading cause of deathrnamong curable infectious disease. The World Health Organization lists Ethiopia as one ofthe 30 highrnburden tuberculosis, tuberculosis/HIV and multidrug resistant tuberculosis countries...
Background: Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a well-recognized adverse effect of anti-rntubercular drugs (ATD) and antiretroviral therapy (ART) possibly associated with genetic rnvariations. Liver injury induced by these drugs carries numerous risks that include morbidity and rnmortality due to...
This study aimed at examining the impact of credit risk management on the financial performance of private commercial banks in Ethiopia. The study used secondary data for eight private banks which stayed in the industry more than ten years among sixteen private commercial banks which is functional...
Background: Family planning service, one of the health extension package which mainlyrnimplemented at health post by health extension workers and which play major role in reducingrnmaternal and newborn morbidity and mortality. This thesis focuses on the assessment of role ofrnhealth extension...
Construction labour productivity (CLP) is dominant subject matter in the construction sector;rnessential cost savings and efficient usage of resources are achieved through high level of labourrnproductivity. CLP is influenced by various factors and practices (parameters) which are...
This research investigated the cost accounting system of state-owned road contractor byrntaking Ethiopian Construction Works Cooperation‟s transport infrastructure sector as arncase study. The construction industry consumes different resources such as, material,rnmanpower and equipment which...
One of the main problems of Addis Ababa light railway transit service is therncongestion and extended waiting line. The waiting time of passengers took onrnaverage 17 minutes, greatly reducing the satisfaction of customers. This is thernreason why the study set the main objective to develop an...
The project delivery method is the process by which a project is comprehensively designed,rnprocured and constructed. Design-Build is a method which an owner deliver both design andrnconstruction responsibility for a single firm. An important issue associated with Design-Buildrndelivery method is...
This research deals with preparation of maintenance guidelines that enables thernprioritization of one historical building over the other. It also deals with identifying thernoptimal maintenance type appropriate for historical buildings of public institutions inrnAddis Ababa. The objectives of the...
In the construction industry, contractors have many challenges on their progress andrnperformance while on the other hand opportunities that lead them for success as well. The largerncontractors today could have once been small contractors and vice versa. The challenges facedrnspecifically by lower...
Markup is a factor that estimators apply to certain work activities or to the total costrnof a bid to cover general overhead and profit. Estimating markup is an important decision forrncontractors as its size has to be low enough to win a contract, but high enough to make arnprofit. Studies which...