Background: Diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child mortality in under five children.rnAccording to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 2.5 billion cases ofrndiarrhea occur among under 5children each year. More than half of the cases occur in Africarnand South-East Asia....
Back ground-Health Extension Program (HEP) is innovative community based program. Thernaim of the program is to improve access to basic essential health service in severely under servedrnrural and remote communities with the goal of achieving universal primary health care. There arernsome studies...
HIV infection is the "first wave" of the pandemic and AIDS morbidity and mortalityrnis the "second wave". Economic, social and governance impact is the "third wave". This wave isrnamenable to a wide range of different responses. Understanding and quantifying the impact ofrnHIV/AIDS is a key...
Introduction: HIV develops very rapidly among infants and children, and, without treatment, arnthird of children with HIV will die of AIDS before their first birthday, with half dying beforernthey are two. In 2009, there were 260,000 deaths attributed to HIV in under-15, most of whichrncould have...
Introduction: HIV develops very rapidly among infants and children, and, without treatment, arnthird of children with HIV will die of AIDS before their first birthday, with half dying beforernthey are two. In 2009, there were 260,000 deaths attributed to HIV in under-15, most of whichrncould have...
Statistics clearly demonstrate that run-off-the road crashes contribute to a significantrnpercentage of high-severity crashes. It is therefore important for the highway safety communityrnto identify the characteristics and contributory causes of these types of crashes. This paperrnassesses the...
In the developing country, Road Traffic Accidents are among the leading cause of deathrnand injury; Ethiopia in particular experiences the highest rate of such accidents. RoadrnTraffic Accidents cannot be absolutely eradicated, however, it is possible to prevent themrnto some extent as long as the...
In cities like Addis Ababa, an increase in size and number of population generate increased travelrndemand. Currently, different transit agencies are trying to meet the travel demand in the City;rnhowever, there is a concern on the quality of services provided. rnThe aim of this study is to...
Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are a major public health concern, resulting in an estimated 1.2rnMillion deaths and 50 million injuries worldwide in each year (Tibebe B. and Shawndra H.,rn2005). In the developing world, Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are among the leading cause ofrndeath and injury;...
Ethiopia is located near to the equator and climatic condition varies from hot-dry-arid regions torntropical rain forest. Seasonal temperature fluctuation is very high in some parts of the country.rnHence, temperature and loading time susceptible construction material such as asphalt binderrnshould...
Sugarcane bagasse ash is an industrial waste from sugar factories. This study aimed to use this materialas a partial substitute of cement in a concrete rigid pavement. The availability of bagasse ash and thevery reasons that the construction of concrete rigid pavements started to be in effect in...
In this paper, Amharic Named Entity Recognition problem is addressed by employingrna semi-supervised learning approach based on neural networks. The proposedrnapproach aims at automating manual feature design and avoiding dependency on otherrnnatural language processing tasks for classi cation...
he paucity of research in the verbal and visual metafunctional uses of Oromo televisionrncommercials broadcast via Oromia Broadcasting Network was observed. The objectives of the research were to explore and describe the metafunctional application of verbal andrnvisual modes in Oromo television...
Community managed rural water supply scheme is considered as one of thernoptions for achieving sustainability of water supply services. Internationalrncommunities and donors are steering this concept. Recently, water schemes inrnrural areas are constructed either by the governmental or...
The purpose of this study was to assess the peiformance of capacity building activities and examine thernimplementing capacity of decentralized local governance. The study was conducted in Adami Tulu Jidornworeda and Ziway town. Comparative study with cross sectional survey was used in the study to...
.lany of I'alllen in dereloping cow11ries are al a great risk ill lerms of high ",alernal lIIorhi,iill 'rnand mOrlalif)' dlle 10 ji:lclors related to pregnallL)l and childbirth in these cOll/1Irie) . .. / en'S.'rnsectional swdy was condllcted ji-om February 15 10 March 15. 2010 ill Gozal11 in...
The central part of Addis Ababa in characterized by the predominance ofrnunplanned neighborhoods and slums. These inner city areas are predominantlyrnoccupied by low income households since most of the economic and public activitiesrnare located in the inner city that provides a multitude of formal...
Land constitutes one of the most critical factors of production in subsistence farm based ruralrnhouseholds. Its significance stems from the role it plays as a primary source of food, feed, accessrnto credit. and social legitimacy and entitlement to development intervention by different...
[-hllnan actions through selliement expansion, searching of crop land and otherrndevelopment activities are altering the ecosystem of the land at unprecedented ratesrn(Walker, 2001). These interactions of Inllnan being with the natural environment havernbeen the core causes for loss offorest and...
This thesis deals with factors that affect girls' participation In pnmary schools of TahtayrnKoraro Woreda. In undertaking the study, the descriptive survey method was used. Eightrnsample schools of the woreda were selected using simple random sampling method.rnQuestionnaire, structured interview...