The study was made from October 2005 to April 2006 at the Southern Nation, Nationalities and Peoples Region, Awassa town and its surroundings. It was carried out with the overall objective of providing base line data on the prevalence of C. bovis/T. saginata. A total of 400 carcasses of randomly selected bovine animals were used for the active abattoir survey. The study comprised of an active abattoir survey data collection at Awassa municipal abattoir, questionnaire survey on volunteer respondents and an inventory of pharmaceutical drug stores and shops in Awassa town. Of the 400 carcasses examined during the study period, 105 (26.25%) were infected with C. bovis. The distribution of organs/tissues infected with C. bovis were, heart (11.25%), diaphragm (1.75%), masseter (8.5%), kidney (0.25%), lung (0.5%), shoulder (9%), tongue (3.25%), and liver (0.75%). Analysis of active abattoir survey revealed that there was a significant difference (P < 0.05, OR = 3.34) between breeds, but there were no significant differences observed in the infection rates between sex (P > 0.05, ï£2 = 0.02) and origin (P > 0.05, OR = 0.87) of the animals. The viability test on all isolated bladder worms showed that 44.2% were viable. The tongue, heart, shoulder and masseter muscles had the highest number of viable (11.25%), (9%), (8.5%) cysts respectively. Based on the questionnaire survey, T. saginata taeniosis is a wide spread problem in Awassa town and its surroundings. 64.2 % of the respondents had contracted taeniosis due to T. saginata. The potential risk factors of taeniosis namely, age, sex, religion, occupation, educational levels, raw meet consumption, use of spices during meat consumption and marital status were considered. The prevalence of taeniosis was slightly significant by the age of the respondents (P 0.05 and ï£2 = 0.44). Among Muslim and Christian communities, it was found that there was a statistical significant difference in the prevalence of taeniosis (P