Background: Morbidity and mortality related to HIV/AIDS remain unacceptably high inrndeveloping countries, despite major advance in HIV therapy and increased internationalrnfunding on HIV/AIDS. Individual’s ability to obtain, consume and utilize food isrncompromised by HIV/AIDS. It causes...
Background: The 2007 Census of Ethiopia revealed 32630 of the 2739551 Addis Ababa population was persons with disability among which 7,835 are reproductive aged women. Persons with disabilities are the most marginalized groups concerning reproductive health services. Unmet need for family planning...
Background: Among malaria control measures, use of mosquito nets is the one that is getting morernacceptance and is being used in large scale worldwide. Despite on going distribution and use of netsrnin Ethiopia, the household level situation in utilizing them is by and large unknown.rnObjective:...
This thesis aimed to explore health promotive and non-communicable disease (NCD)rnpreventive discourses as enacted in the health education practices of health workers and their clients’ talks. Thus, the study sought to: (i) examine meanings attached to NCDs by community members of Axum town;...
Back ground of the study: Occupational injuries constitute global public health burden from which millions of workers die each year from unintentional work related accidents causing economic loss. The construction industry has been identified as one of the hazardous industries in Ethiopia; a...
Background: Poor sanitation in schools can cause parasitic infection among school children that can result in impaired children’s growth and development. It also increases student’s absenteeism from school and affects student’s academic performance. Due to poor sanitation,...
Background:- HIV voluntary counseling and testing is an entry point to both preventionrnand treatment. Adolescents have to know their HIV sero status to enable them to seekrnappropriate treatment as well as to enable them to choose prevention strategies and adoptrnsafe sexual behavior. For...
This dissertation describes personal names and naming practices of Oromoo people inrnEastern Wollega of Oromia National Regional state. The study was carried out at Naqamte Administrative town and Giddaa Ayyaanaa district in Eastern Wollega. The study describes how children are named and explores...
For the past decades, an increase 111 population pressure, policy, institutional andrneconomic development influences caused changes in LULC of city and periphery. Thisrnwas mainly due to urban expansion and densification. The effects of land use and landrncover changes have impacted the urban...
Tllis paper addresses a celltral ques tion: How is the welfare sill lntioll of /lIe socielyrnill eluding depth and lIlagnitude of poverty both in terllls of ill collle I1l1ri 1I01l-i1l COlllernilldimtors prevailillg at grassroots of the study nrea. This study prodll ces sOllie aggrega lernpoverty...
Land is the most important natural resource evenJWhere in the world and its importance for developingrncountries like Ethiopia is even 1110re critical due to their heavy dependency on land resources. However, thisrnvital resource is losing its productivih) due to land degradation.rnTIle overall...
Rice is a new crop for the country in general and the study area, Metema, in particular. There isrnan immense potenlial rice produclion area and high consumer demand. However, Ihe rice sec/orrnis not jidly developed as compared /0 the potenlia!. Many institutional, organizational...
A study was conducted on premarital sexual behaviour, pregnancy incidences andrnresolutions among the youth population in Bahir Dar Town, Ethiopia. The Eligiblernpopulation for the study was defined as never marriedfemales between the ages of 15-24. Thernsample was designed to be drawn from a...
The drought-prone areas of the country are largely areas of chronic food insecurity.rnProduction-based entitlements supplemented by creation of mechanisms of food access isrnconsidered as the major instruments of attaining food security in the rural developmentrnand food security strategies of the...
This study targeted to assess knowledge, attitude and behavior (KAB) on HIV/AlDS/STDsrnamong workers in the informal sector in Addis Ababa. The study is based on the sample ofrnJ J 77 respondents.rnThe eli gibi li ty criterion for the selection of respondents is based on the definition of...
The study assess es the extent of rural household vulnerability to climate change by applyingrnVulnerability as Expected Pover ty (VEP) approach and analyses adaptation options used byrnapplying multinomiallogit model. The VEP approach is based on estimating the probability thatrna given shock or...
This paper comprises all rounded analysis of literature mId empirical results of the impact ofrncommunity training on household food security. The study is based on Bale zone threernworedas-Gassera Gololcha, Ginir and Goro. These woredas are preferred because Agri-servicernEthiopia, local NGO, has...
This brief sunm1ary repre sents an overview of the key research findings discussed atrnlength in the main body of the report. In KTZ, the HSEP that ha s been underway as partrnof national program since 2006 was designed to improve the und erserved majorities'rnaccess to basic health care services,...
Reproductive decision-making is strongly associated with gender power relatiolls be/weenrncouples. In mOllY developing counlries mOSI of reproduclive decisions are made by mell althoughrnil is, as well, Ihe cOllcern of Vomell. Helice, Ihis study was undertaken wilh Ihe objective ofrnassessing lite...
Rural and urban peoples are becoming increasingly multidimensional and mull i-local inrnpresent times and rural-urban linkages are receiving beller altention in the regional andrnlocal economic development discourse. However, Ethiopia is characterized w ith weakrnrural - urban linkage due to...