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Last week, The Hague Appeals Court completed its long-awaited hearings on old war crimes in Ethiopia. With ongoing conflict in Tigray, the Derg’s “Red Terror” of four decades ago may seem a story of the past. Yet this belated but unique universal jurisdiction trial has again aroused the pains of a period that still embitters both victims and the accused person, Eshetu Alemu. Historian Thijs Bouwknegt tells the story of man who still hopes for an acquittal as he is about to die.

Assessing the incidence and predictors of opportunistic infections among persons living with HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was more common in children who had suffered physical trauma than in adults. Despite its prevalence, the prevalence and factors associated with PTSD in pediatric patients with physical trauma are unknown in Ethiopia. As a result, the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of PTSD and associated factors among pediatric patients with physical trauma who attended Northwest Amhara referral hospitals. An institutional-based cross-sectional study de...

Assessing the level of immediate PNC satisfaction and associated factors among women who gave birth in Debre Markos town public health institutions

Patients Satisfaction and Associated Factors Towards Physiotherapy Services in North West Ethiopia

Assessing the level of adherence and associated factors among children on ART in Northwest, Ethiopia. Adherance was low, with various factors associated.

To ensure safe, adequate, and sustainable blood supplies all over the country, health workers have a significant role in different ways. Even if health workers are too low in numbers, they are vital to mobilize the community towards blood donation. All clinical and nonclinical hospital employees are expected to be more aware than the general population and take the lead to create awareness on blood donation. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the practice and associated factors of b...

Improving the quality of care for mothers and newborns during pregnancy and childbirth will lower rates of stillbirths in Ethiopia. Click to learn more.

18 and Zewditu Memorial II, 8 hospitals indicated that initiation of HAART decreases the incidence of anemia. On the contrary, there is evidence that showed multiple drugs used for the treatment of HIV/AIDS results in side-effects including anemia. For instance, drugs such as AZT, cotrimoxazole, amphotericin, interferon, dapsone, and hydroxyurea-based drugs can cause anemia. Our country, Ethiopia is one of the Sub-Saharan Africa countries that are severely affected by HIV/AIDS. It is estimated ...

Study Setting In Ethiopia, by the time this study was conducted, there were 47 Ethiopian Public Universities (EPU) distributed in all regions of the country. Of these 47 EPU, only 30 of them were selected for this study with the criteria of having had Midwifery Education Program (MEP) and had started teaching midwifery clinical courses. Specifically, these 30 EPU are three (Adigrat, Aksum, and Mekelle) universities from the Tigray region; Seven (Bahir Dar, Debre Birhan, Debre Markos, and Debre ...