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Health is Wealth
Health is wealth, yet so many people are unable to benefit from it. Throughout the years, various research studies have examined the effect that healthy citizens have on a nation’s economic well-being. Recently, anew report by the Economist Intelligence Unit revealed that $3.2 billion in productivity could be gained between 2021 – 2040 by eliminating two neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), soil-transmitted helminths or intestinal worms and schistosomiasis (bilharzia) in Ethiopia – where at least 75 million people require treatment for at least one NTD.
NTDs are a group of parasitic, bacteria, and viral diseases that affect more than 1.7 billion people, particularly, the most vulnerable and marginalized people in society. Mass drug administration campaigns are conducted in disease endemic countries in order to reduce morbidity, which in turn contributes to an i
Ethiopia conducts an oral cholera vaccination campaign to protect populations in cholera affected districts
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29 January 2021
Addis Ababa – An oral cholera vaccination (OCV) campaign, launched to protect at risk populations in active cholera woredas (districts) in Gambella, Oromia, SNNP, Sidama and Somalia regions, has just been completed. The campaign, which aimed to vaccinate 1.67 million people aged one year and above, was conducted in 20 woredas, achieving 97.3% coverage.
“With the leadership of the EPHI and collaboration of partners, the campaign was conducted successfully despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 global pandemic, which has taken up the attention of health workers and the public,” said Dr Aggrey Bategereza, the WHO Ethiopia Emergency Preparedness and Response Lead. “Both the public and the vaccinators displayed commendable commitment to the success of the campaign,” he added.
Another dengue fever outbreak in Eastern Ethiopia An emerging public health threat
Mulugeta Asefa Gutu , Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Yimer Seid,
Yusuf Mohammed,
Abyot Bekele Woyessa,
Lehageru Gizachew,
Ryan E. Tokarz,
Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Mulugeta Asefa Gutu,
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2021-01-12 02:05:43 GMT2021-01-12 10:05:43(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) Ethiopia vaccinated more than 650,000 people as part of a reactive yellow fever vaccination campaign, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. A yellow fever vaccination campaign targeting 700,000 people in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples (SNNP) and Oromia regions was conducted in November 2020, the WHO said in a statement.
After reporting the first case in March 2020, WHO surveillance officers and regional health bureau teams strengthened surveillance, including active case search, it noted. A total of 86 cases and four deaths were reported in this outbreak, the WHO said, adding its teams have worked with regional health authorities, including those in Enor-Ener Woreda in Gurage Zone of the SNNPR, to coordinate the response.